san silvester :)

Granny has come to party with us, inthe afternoon Momichan and I have gone to the shop under our house to buy some "magic wands" a kind of home little fireworks that sparkle but you can hold in your hands all the time and looks like a magic wand, Momo loves them :)

cotechino and lenticchies

polenta and mushrooms

We have prepared veggies and cotechino and some starts like polenta and mushrooms, we also had salami and ham and some tartufo cheese and salami.
Momo and granny were playing with a new game we had bought to play alltogather adn Momochan was winning everytime and was loosing, Momo laughed every time, the game treated to take away some sticks from a rocket shaped thing without letting the little balls inside fall down but everytime it was my turn I was unlucky and my sticks always made balls fall !!! the winner of the game is the one who has less balls than the other.
As we have finished eating Momochan asked about lighting her magic wands, they are coloured, green, red, orange and some white, she was amusing so much but in a short time all the livingroom was full of smoke HAHAHA

Momo and her magic wand

cotechino wrapped insde a special bread

Anyway, at midnight outside in the sky somewhere in the central plaza of the town, fireworks startedand Momo started to jump and shout happily, we were running from one side of the other inside the house to see the better possible, some fireworks were really enormous, other just made noise, some seemed gold fountains and some just magic sparkling dust, Momochan loved them all :)

Around one o'clock everything was finished and Momochan was tired.
I started to put everything in order and prepare milk bottle for her while daddy helped to put pijama and granny helped in the kitchen, I was tired too and I guess when everyone touched the bed, fall in a deep sleep :)

bubbles ...

Momochan loves to make bubbles so this morning for our usual walk I have given her permission to take the special bubble vase and she has start to run and make bubbles going to the central plaza for our usual coffee :)

Often we wake up and we take a walk to make breakfast at the coffee shop, we take a coffee and a croissants they have baked in the morning the same day, we chat, give a look at the news in the newspaper and after we go around for the plaza, today is a sunny morning, we have had a long rainy and cloudy week so we are happy to jump around with Momochan making bubbles :)
 

coffee shop central plaza :)

X'mas tree Dome plaza

After having taken the special balloon in the morning and had lunch at home, we have left for the big city, because every year we are curious to see what the Christmas Tree in Milan looks like.

Well, the tree is not bad, once "dressed" with lights and red ribbons, really looks nice :)

We wal around to see the glittering shops full of people buying everything despite the crisis in Italy, we enter in a coffee shop and after we take a lot of fotos, and an hour later I take the family behind the Dome plaza to a special shop, Luini, a shop existing since 1888 and selling fried panzerotti YUM YUM :)
Theese panzerotti are so special that when in Milan you want one, you just say "I want a Luini" :)

Momo and dad waiting to buy panzerotti :)

It is already dark and cold so is best for us to start going home, Momochan has to eat and go bed before 21,00 PM and we have to prepare food, her milk bottle and everything also she has not had her usul nap today so she is quite tired :)

X'mas balloon

This morning as everyday we are in the center of our town for a walk, we have to go to the ballon shop to take Momochan special X'Mas tree balloon, she has waiting since 24 december.
Momo is very happy to have this balloon, she had the same last year but during the moving to the new house we have lost it (anyway it was flat no air inside) so we have bought her a new one and we have had the lucky occasion of finding the same one, guess she will ask also the next year :)

Christmas dinner :)

We have an appointment at 20.30 to aunt and oncle house for dinner with our parents. Momochan is happy because she knows Santa Claus has taken some other presents for her and she guess in a box there will be a special one she waits since last year: a small kid pc she can take everywhere and learn colours, how to read and write words, english words and much more. (We have found this Clementoni Clem Touch Plus on the web at a reduced price and we have bought on Amazon a few days ago for her, it has a tons of small cassettes to play, it is sufficient you buy some other cassetts and you can change game, the folder of the small pc can contain four of them and once closed protects the pc in case of falling on the floor). Last year Momochan was too small to play with it also I did not found it anywhere and price was double than what I found now so now is more convenient in both cases :)

Momochan is really happy about her presents, she has had many. With that toy she will be able to learn how to write and read and she will use for long time :)

Christmas :))

Santa Claus and gnomes :)

This morning Momochan awakes and the first thing she tells me is " mommy I want to go livingroom to look under the Tree if Santa Claus hass come and took presents, I am worried !" HAHAHA

Just a few seconds after we hear Momochan shout happily "mommy ! the Tree is full of presents Santa Claus has passed by !!!"

Daddy and I go to the livingroom, nearly all the presents are for Momochan this year and some others have to come this evening when wee will go to the oncle and aunt to big town for dinner, granny will be there also.

YUM YUM, I like scrambled eggs !

A giant red and white striped bag contains an Ikea big seal and son, from aunt Sarah (my sister) two small boxes: one Hello Kitty cookie shaped box and a Hello Kitty watch, a paint box with pastels, paints, felt pens ..., two dvd: Cinderella and Peppa Pig X'Mas adventures :)

Other small packets contain a Hello Kitty red bag for me, a jacket for daddy, a Coca Cola pc key for me and a blackberry marmelade for daddy.

In the kitchen brackfast is waiting, daddy starts to cook scrambled eggs while Momochan eats milk and corn flakes, she has fruit juice and yogurt also, we have bisquits, panettone and tea :)
Weather outside is terrible, a cold rain is keeping everything humid, we do not want to get out, wee will stay home until evening to relax, play and look cartoon and Christmas films on tv :)

X'Mas night .... Santa Claus is coming !

Daddy and I are preparing dinner, I have plannes to make something special so we have bought a small turkey wee want to fill with chestnuts, apples, onions and potatoes, bake in the oven and accompany with other veggies, we also have ham and salami. Momochan is watching Christmas Peppa Pig, this toon we have never seen and pity is I have not the time to record it to put on my pc to see thousand times.
On the table we have an Ikea Christmas sheep and a Santa Claus deer we have assembled before.
Dinner flows and is nearly midnight, we have the panettone cake I have decorated with chinese mandarines and chokolate, we cheer with champagne and I prepare milk bottle for Momochan while she is running to wash her dummy, quick Momochan, quick, Santa Claus is coming and you have to sleep or he will go away and comes later !!! Momochan runs to wear her pijama worried Santa Claus is not coming soon because she is still awake, she takes her milk bottle, kiss goodnight while I go to put order in the kitchen and wash dishes and ... silently put the presents under the Tree tinkling some bells and making some "HO HO HO" pretending to be Santa Claus arriving ........... ^_______________^

らメン ramen :)

Today we have gone to Chinatown and we have come home late so we are preparing food now.
Daddy is home on vacation and thus prepares food for everybody. Momochan is already eating in her new bowl bought in Chinatown this morning her おいしいらメン oishii ramen :)

Now that we have new bowls we can eat ramen often and as here weeatherr is pretty cold and cloudy nothing is better to keep us warm :)
Daddy makes ramen with noodles, veggies (chinese cabbage and carrots), a hard boiled egg ゆで卵, broth without soy sauce (too salted for Momochan), and pices of turkey we have left from the other dinner last night. This time he hass also addes some slices of wiener because Momochan likes them, really dad is making ramen everrytime different depending what we have in the fridge :)

livingroom :)

This one is our new livingroom as it is now :)

We have our X'mas Tree decorated near the window, I have assembled the new red curtains,our old table is in his perfect corner, chairs have a decoration that is a big Santa Claus berret and the room gives a order feeling.
Momochan seems to appreciate the new room as it looks like now, curtains give a festive look and I can close them in the evening so that noone can look inside (the buildings outside are veeery near and if I go around the house with pijama or pants and Tshirt someone from outside can see HAHAHA !

new table and stool :)

This evening Momochan and I have a new occasion to celebrate: the first dinner inside the new kitchen with the new table !!!
Granny today has taken me to Ikea store to buy our X'Mas present in advance and, as period is what it is, and is best to give something useful instead of something to waste, we decided it was great to have the table Melltorp and two stool Marius, all white :)
For us is best to eat in the kitchen as we did before but now our table is in the living room so the kitchen needed a new one, eventually smaller we can use to prepare breackfast, to have space more when we will invite freinds for dinner, to leave some food and table prepared for Sampei when he comes back home in the night and in every other occasion :)

Give a look atour old table in the livingroom now, he has a perfect corner where we can eat in particular occasions or use to write and colour, use pc and make puzzles alltogather :)

kindergarden Christmas show :)

As every year teachers have prepared the annual Christmas show with all the kids. Everyone has a part in the show and they enter by groups. Momochan is in the first group of kids and she is a cat :)

She has to walk like a cat and togather with all the other kids of the cat group she has to tell a poetry. Meanwhile, a teacher is telling a story, the story of Santa Claus coming on the roof of the houses where cats live and chimney sweepers work and clean :)
During the night the teacher says, snow arrives (a group of kids dressed in white pretend to be snow flakes and they act as if they were snow falling from the sky). Look in the last foto here on the right, show is nearly ended and all the kindergarden kids wave goodbye and sing a Christmas song, Momochan is the middle with grey long sleeve shirt waving bye bye and the face painted like a cat with black nose and moustache :)

Santa Claus is coming to Town ;)

You better watch out
You better not cry
better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town

He's making a list,
and checking it twice;
gonna find out
Who's naughty and nice.
Santa Claus is coming to town

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
so be good for goodness sake!

Oh! You better watch out!
You better not cry.
better not pout, I'm telling you why.
Santa Claus is coming to town

 Santa Claus is coming to town.

X'Mas cake for kindergarden

This afternoon I have prepared a small cake to take kindergarden, last week teachers have asked on occasion of the Christams show of the kids, cakes,sweets and fresh pasta will be sold and money will be used for kindergarden for what kids need.

I am not able to make fresh pasta or sweets so I made a chokolate cake :)

Momochan was amused about my decorations she wanted to help but it was terribly late and Momochan has to sleep because tomorrow she has her impoortant show, kids have learned by heart some Christmas song and a poetry created by the teachers on purpose, she is very jouzu :)

Every kid has a part in the show, Momochan and a small group of kids have to be cats and they have a kind of special funny dance HAHAHA

letter to Santa Claus :)

For the second year, teachers of kindergarden have organized a special box where to take letters for Santa Claus, every kid has to make one.

Yesterday I had prepared a sheet of paper for Momochan with special images and togather we have coloured and she has told me what to write then I have decorated it all with a special gold glue to make it brilliant and shiny.

Momo loved it so much that she has asked me to make a copy to keep home so today after dinner before finishing the cake to take kindergarden tomorrow for the Christmas market (meanwhile baking in the oven) we were colouring the second letter, putting the glitter and signing the letter :)

And here it is on the left, angels, stars, X'Mas Tree, packet, bell, ribbon, a sphere.

Well, seems really this year is something different and good, there is a new air in our family with the change of house and this funny letter of Momo so sweet is really unusual, she has not really asked for present but just to have daddy home and amuse alltogather, have serenity for her mum (always hysteric because of the troubles wee have had) so sweet baby, sometimes she doesn't even seem a 4 year old kid but older :)

roadhouse grill :)

Today I had a special program for Momochan, we had planned to go restaurant as a special prize for X'mas holidays, also because in this restaurant on tuesday kids eat free so I just needed to pay for me :)
Momochan loves to go restaurant and it was so long time we were not going out for lunch. The Roadhouse is a grill meat restaurant near home and it is the only restaurant in town where there are special reduced prices for children and also from today for a short period adding a coca cola to the menu as present I would have had a key holder shaped red coca cola bottle which is really a 4gb pc key :) a cute X'Mas present for me.Momochan loves chicken so I ordered for her a portion of chiken teners with fried potatoes and for me I took more or less the same thing (see fotos) and I added a potato with sauce.
Momochan eated everything and asked for other chiken stick from my dish HAHAHA she is so sweet when she is amusing :)

Christmas dinner :)

In a short time we will have to prepare a X'mas menu and still we have not decided what to do also we have to decide which presents to have and buy for Momochan, I will put them under the Tree we have in the livingroom during the night of 24, just the ones Santa Claus is taking, the ones we personally give to Momo will be set before :)

We have already inside the fridge the Swedish X'Mas ham, I guess we will add some veggies and make a dish of salami and ham, eventually we can have some tortellini in broth. The rest we will think at within some days :)