taking a walk

This morning it was raining but Momochan and I went outside the same to take a walk. Granny was with us because she has come yesterday to stay some days and she wanted to profit of the situation to visit the new store Lidl which has reopened two days ago.
They have a new bread corner with everything possibile, bread, focaccia, croissants, either salted or sweet. Momochan asked for a salted croissant with ham and cheese inside, normally she doesn't like but this time she ated all and said it was really good.
Bread and everything is baked every day so is always fresh :)

merry-go-round goes away :(

This morning Momochan and I awakened, and we noticed it was snowing again !
We washed, dressed and went out to walk towards the central plaza :) Momochan was happy at the idea she could have her last four turns on the merry-go-round, she had gone yesterday so much but we had still four tickets and the man said they would have been still there today, so Momochan was imaging we enter the bar to take coffee and after to go merry-go-round and take the tail to have a free ride but, as we turned the corner and we entered the plaza we had a bad sourprise ...

You had to see her face ... never since she started to go on the meryy-go-round from the age of 9 months she has reacted so bad seeing they wer dismantling to go away, it was something she felt betrayed, they had said her yesterday they would be there and thet were dismantling ... I was sure she would have weeped but instead no larmes appeared on her face. We entered the coffee shop, and I ordered a coffee then I thought a lollypop would make Momo smile but I succeeded only half ... it was too much for her.
We stopped a little talking with Fabio, the owner of the carousel and he said that if next sunday it will be sunny he will be there with the big gummy slider and sugar candies.
We said "goodbye" and we walked towards home, it was time to prepare lunch, we already decided to make roasted meat and potatoes in the oven so that Momo and I could play and colour her book.

merry-go-round

During the afternoon while daddy as everyday is at work, Momochan and I go to the main plaza, Momo wants to amuse and go on the merry-go-round because she wants to take the tail and really she amuses a lot today and takes the tail two times :)

lidl reopens :)

After six months at last the Lidl store in our town reopens.
We buy there expecially water gas bottles because they costh half price than the usual Esselunga supermaket we normally go but we often go also in case of particular offers or Halloween days, Easter ... because they sell particular products.
It has been totally rebuilt and has tons of new product. Lidl is a discont store, they have product coming from germany and others that normally you do not find in the usual supermarket (but mostly they are good) and prices are very very low.
This morning we have a sourprise: entering the store there is a clown distributing balloons and I ask one for Momochan, after a few meters there is a lady that make up kids and Momochan sit on a little chair waiting her turn. Meantime on turn (one of us has always to stay with Momochan), daddy and I walk throught the store looking around. Fruits and vegetables are wonderful, products to clean the house are cheap and much more in quantity than six months ago but the more wonderful thing now is ... the store has a bread corner where they bake croissants, bread and sweets all days fresh !!! WOW I take some to taste and they are really wonderful. Momochan amuses a lot she loves balloons and make-up kids and is really happy about this sourprise about which nobody of us knew. The result of her make up is a beautiful coloured and gleaming butterfly and Momo is very proud if it :) We buy hamburgers, nuggets and wet towels for Momochan, candies, bread and pretzels from the new bread corner.

summer menu

This morning is snowing again and is cold even if snow doesn't attach to the ground but flakes are so big.
Inside kindergarden is warm and kids play and amuse. Today is the day of the change of the monthly menu, summer version with much more fruits and vegetables, just one day egg, four day fish, two days ham, six days meat (pork, turkey and chiken), three days cheese, you can read the menù here below. Every meal is accompanied by fruit, and yogurt for dessert, there is always a first dish of pasta or rice (one day pastina with broth) and a main course of fish/meat/cheese/egg/ or ham. This is what kids eat at kindergarden this season :)

summer menù kindergarden

carnevale 2013

Today is Carnival end day so in the central plazaof the town everry kid is masked, confettis are everywhere in the air and everyone celebrates and amuses.

i have dressed Momochan as a pirate and we have gone to the main plaza to meet some friends, every kid we know is there.

Momo amuses so much, she has a big bag full of confettis she is throwing everywhere around expecially on me (I have confettis inside panties, under t-shirts, everywhere !!!) and as soona s she sees her kindergarden friends she amuses even more :)

At a certain moment we see there is a group of teen ageres who are playing with aerosol spray bottles full of shaving foam and they are already all covered !!! HORROR !!! so we decide to walk away for a few moments and take the occasion of take a coffee and buy candies for the kids. Momochan like her new butterfly make up, the girl has been really jouzu, so that i have asked her her telephone numes in case we should need for some parties.
The day flows on, some other kids we know arrive and go, we also take the kids on the merry go round and Momochan takes the tail of Winnie Pooh two times so she makes free turns with her friend. When it start to become cold Momochan asks if we can go home because she says she is tired so we say goodbye to her friends and we come back home. Once inside Momochan takes her mask away and put inside her treasure chest box (where she has all her costumes) but tells me she wants to wait to take make up away.
She runs into the livingroom and she lights on tv to see cartoons. She will tell me after she is too tired even to eat but anyway she will eat some pastina and ham and ask me for a giant milk bottle :)

san valentine's .... pirates !!!

Today in kindergarden kids play a show about the pirates.

Parents have been said before to provide kids with bandanas, pants and shirt of the same colour and stelle filanti, the colured packet Momochan is holding in her hands in the right side foto :)

All the week long they have made costumes and tried dialogues for this show, pity is that is just for them to play and parents cannot see :( Anyway this morning Momochan is a pirate :))

Inside our preferred corner coffee shop as every particular day they produce a variaty of different cakes :)

Giorgia's birthday :)

This afternoon after kindergarden, Momochan has been invited to a birthday party from a friend inside kindergarden, location will be our preferred place Arcobaleno delle Favole.
At 16.00 PM I am going to take Momo as every day and a friend invited to the party too, will give us a lift in her car. Once arrived Momochan tells me that the decoration for carnival are still attached and present, I answer that as if it is Caneival during all week long it is normal that the park is still decorated. Inside no other kids except two, kindergarden kids have still to arrive and as it is tuesday the place is nearly empty and this is nice because the 10 kids invited have the park all for themselves and we moms can stay more relaxed :) The theme of the table is Smurfs and also the cake has a big Smurf in the middle and many others around. Kids start to run and jump around, Momochan is happy because she likes this place so much and recently we have been there already other two times :) Soon is already time for snack and kids are called through a loudspeaker to come in the reserved space. Momo takes a few pop corn and water and runs immediately away to play. Mum are talking and eating snacks meanwhile kids are running here and there, laughing, jumping, soon another hour is passed and is time to call kids to eat the cake. At the sound of the "happy birthday" music every kids looks up at the man who is entering the space where they they are sitting round the table, holding an enormous cake, 5 candles to blow :) Giorgia blows the candles and mommy starts to cut the slices. This time nearly every kid eats the cake or at leas they taste, when they were smaller cake was not even touched but now that everybody is 4 or 5, curiosity takes the best and Momochan also eats a big piece before running another time away :)

Time really fly, outside is dark and really cold, luckily another mom can give us a lift home, temperature is I guess around -4° degrees, soon we arrive home, Momochan take s a shower, I put her pijama and prepare a light dinner, she eats all happily and soon with her milk bottle she fall asleep :)

sweet truffles for Carnival

DOLCETTI DI CARNEVALE
(done by Momochan in kindergarden)

1 kg di biscotti secchi
300 gr cacao
300 gr zucchero
500 gr burro
1 bustina di cocco
un pò di codette colorate

PREPARAZIONE
Sciogliere il burro col il cacao e unire lo zucchero e i  biscotti sbriciolati, formare delle palline e passarle nel cocco o nelle codette colorate
Tenere in frigo fino al momento di servire.

snowing again !!!!

Sourprinsingly this morning as we woke up, looking outside we saw it was snowing !

Really yesterday night the sky has turned cloudy but I didn't suspect anything about snow and looking outside this morning at 9.00 AM I thought it has been snowing all night long :)

Momochan is happy even if is snowing hard and big icy  flakes comes down dancing in every direction something if they have a proper life.

Inside the house daddy is starting to wake up, Momochan and I are already in the bathroom, Momo is washing theeth and I am doing shower. Momochan dresses are already prepared on her stool in her bedroom and mine are in my room on the chest of drawers.

While i am writing now it is still snowing since this morning at nine, it has been said it will go on allday long.

Momochan kindergarden, here inside is her class seen from outside :)

Kindergarden, the outside sliders covered by a thick snow :)

I guess today as soon as I will go take Momochan back home at 16.00 PM we will come home immediately without going around because is really cold and snow doesn't want to stop :)

carnevale party (follows)

Here we are at the Carnevale party, Momochan has not slept today so I guess she will be very tired this evening.

We do not have the car so we have come by feet and along the way Momochan has thrown around thusands of confettis HAHAHA

Once entered I have to put Momochan her special sock and her costume, she has pirate pants and a t-shirt given by a friend which is really comfortable more than the original shirt of the costume so she is free to run and jump everywhere. After some quick jumps around we profit of the situation as there are not kids in this moment and i tell Momochan to go to the make up corner. She gives a look at the fotos and she chooses a special rainbow with sun and a cloud and the lay starts to paint it on her face.

After the make up the lady tells Momochan to go playingin an area where she had to find small images of dogs and in case she found three she won a prize. Momochan found the three dog images and she choosed a coin box then she ran away to climb some other castle or slider.

After an hour more or less someone from the loudspeakers called to say kids shoud come at the coffee corner for snak, chiacchere and tortelli would be served so I asked Momochan if she wanted to eat chiacchere and we went to the coffee corner, she eat an entire chiacchera but then she runned away saying "it is good mommy but I want to play" :) HAHAHA
The party has been organized so as kids to play and in the middle sweets to be served and baby dance to be done so now is the turn of baby dance. Owner calls kids and tells in a few minutes baby dance would start, meanwhile they have to put away make up items and take the radio with the new songs among which there is Michel Telò's Ai Se Eu Te Pego, Gustavo Lima's Balada Boa and Psy's Gangnam Style ^___^
Kids start to get crazy and jump here and there and dance, even Momochan who is a little shy, as the first notes of her well known summer songs starts, start to dance trying to copy the moves the lady is doing :)

Around 18.30 PM every parent and kid started to go dressing and take the coat, it was already dark outside and Momochan started to be tired even if she wouldn't show so I told her it was best to go. This time we do not have any stroller, Momochan is 4 year old and I have sold it so I cannot carry her seated confortable while I push her towards home and she has to walk even if two or three times I take her on my shoulder whenever she says she is too tired too walk any longer.
Once arrived home a shower is on schedule, landry of everything we wear and a hot supper to cook before putting Momochan to bed, tomorrow she has to go school so she has to sleep :)

carnevale party :)

As every year for particolar occasion this afternoon I will take Momochan to the Carnival party, I guess she will amuse so much, she will wear a pirate costume, (I saw at the supermarket a cute costume of a pirate which looked really fabulous) anyway this evening I will tell you after we have come back and I have put Momochan to bed :)