easter decorations

For Easter time we have builted a special Easter Tree with eggs, chikens, rose flowers and for our door Momochan has designed a special egg image we have attached outside at our house door ;)

pretty princess ;)

Today daddy is home from work, he has again changed free day, so we can go shopping at the supermarket and we can go back to Kiabi store to buy a wonderful dress for Momochan we had seen the other day ;)

Daddy didn't want to buy but there are a few reason to change idea: first is the low price (like two hamburgers at McDonalds), second, in the summer for sure we will have to go to the baptism of my nephew and third, Momochan loved this dress so much ;)
The other dress is the one we have bought for Momochan to wear for Easter lunch, she is really cute withh that dress, but as it is still a little cold, I have bought a pair of pink leggings too ;)

Viridea: penguin for a day ;)

Scoprire gli animali e trasformarsi in pinguini per un giorno.
Attraverso giochi e coinvolgenti animazioni, permetterà ai presenti di scoprire divertendosi, il tema della biodiversità nel regno degli animali. Guidati dagli animatori, i bambini avranno la possibilità di mettersi nei panni di alcuni animali per comprendere meglio quali difficoltà ogni specie ha dovuto incontrare nel proprio ambiente, e come la natura ha risposto a queste necessità.
I ragazzi si trasformeranno in pinguini che devono salvare le uova o pellicani e farfalle che devono procurarsi il cibo e nutrirsi in modo diverso a seconda del proprio ambiente, scoprendo in prima persona il concetto di evoluzione della specie.
La giornata si svilupperà dalle 10.00 alle 13.00 e dalle 15.00 alle 19.00 e io conto di portarci Momoko per vedere se ci si diverte e impara qualcosa in più, penso adori i pinguini perchè camminano in modo buffo :)

21st march: SPRING !!!

Today is the first day of spring and as it is a sunny day with blue sky and no clouds we can believe it although we will need more time here in Italy to have spring, weather forecast has said we will still have a week or two with snow in the mountains (!!!!!) and rain everywhere ....... AHHHHH !!!
Anyway today is sunny and kindergarden kids among which Momochan, today at the entrance have planted some flowers ;) they will celebrate spring by planting flowers and creating spring decorations, this red bee you see on the left has been made by Momochan and the decorations you can see in the other foto she made with the other kids and the teachers ;)
Inside kindergarden in every season they change decorations, now they have floweers and insects, for X'mas they had snow flakes, raindeers and Santas, for Canival they had stelle filanti, confettis and coloured items hanging from the ceiling of the corridors and the classes ;)

Here is Momochan at the entrance with the flowers and in the small foto, the orange flower is the one we bought to be planted here ;)

father's day ;)

Today in Italy as in most part of the world is Father's Day ;)
Inside kindergarden Momochan and her friends as for every special occasion (X'mas, Easter, mum's day, father's day ....) have made a special work for dad, it is all the week they are working on it togather with a small poetry they are learning by heart to tell daddy by giving him the present.
I will see this special thing as soon as we will go and take Momochan this afternoon.

h. 14.30 - Momochan has realized with the help of the teachers a useful gadget for daddy to help parking.
Daddy however is working and she will have to give him this night, we will leave the present on the table of the kitchen togather with a special croissant we have bought in our preferred coffee shop which for the occasion has prepared some special cake decorated and shaped "daddy style" ;)
Luckily we have celebrated daddy on sunday and for the occasion we had reserved in the coffee shop a special cake for which I have sent by mail a special photo of Momo and dad to realize a special decoration to put on the top (read about that) :)

planetarium

This morning Momochan and her classmates went to Planetarium to learn about the stars ;)
The bus to take them Planetarium arrived at 9.10 AM and all the kids got inside, Momochan waved goodbye and laughed happily and the bus left ;)

When I went at 16.00 PM to take her home she told me about the constellations she saw and the planets between which scorpio and the smaller bear ;)

Here you can see some of the constellation we see easily: gemini (the twins), big bear and smaller bear, libra and the scorpio ;)

Momochan has learned that according to the season we can see different contellations and also is different what we can see from there and what we would see if for example we would be on the other side of the planet as for instance in Japan :)

PLANETARIUM
Corso Venezia, 57
20121 Milano
phone: 02 8846 3340

daddy's day ;)

The 19th of march in Italy is father's day but as "our" dad will be working as normally from 9.00 AM to 2.00 AM and sunday is his day free, we thought it was best to celebrate today ;)
For that purpose granny hass come for lunch and we had ordered a few days ago, a special cake with a  sweet foto of Momochan and dad; the foto is 2 years old but as you can see below, it is so sweet, Momochan at that time did not speak, butin the image she seemedd to tell daddy a lot of secrets :D We had thought also to prepare a special menu: salmon cooked in the oven, fresh salad, antipasto of salami and ham, and carrots cooked with butter as veggies for Momochan (she doesn't eat salad).

easter tree 2013 ;)

Since a couple of years in the month of march I am doing the Easter Tree ;)

Momochan loves to decorate home and she likes colours so the only problem was: where can I find a branch for the tree ??? umm ... the other day Momochan and I were walking in the main plaza and there were men cutting the trees as they do in every spring and there were many branches on the ground so we had just to choose one to take home ;)) I do not have all the decorations because when we moved here in decembre last year they got lost so I have to buy.

Up till now we have hanged coloured eggs, a pair of chicks in a neset and four butterflies, Momochan has to make some coloured flowers and we have also found in the middle of her pelouches a kind of duck and a bunny and I have posed at the base of the Easter tree togather with a basket filled with four big paper coloured Ikea eggs each of which contains chocko eggs and sourprises, every member of the family have a special colour and there is also an egg for granny: mommy has yellow, daddy has orange, Momochan dark pink and granny has green ;)

town's fair ;)

This morning Sampei is home so we profit of the situation to take a walk alltogather.
As we arrive to the main plaza we see there is a fair with little market, games and make-up-kids and there we meet again Giorgia and her make up corner ;)

Momochan asks me if she can have a new make up on her face and we tell her we will come back in the afternoon so she can play and have her make up but now is time to go shopping at Lidl store and aftewards to come back home to prepare lunch, daddy will cook some rice and add turkey meat and a strange vegeble like salad that he has to cook. Momocan will not have nap this afternoon because there is no time.
At 16.30 as promised we come back to the plaza.

Momochan wants to to on the big gummy slider and on the jumping pad but she also wants her special make up. She starts from the slider, she has tickes free today for 5 turns, a friend has given us some time ago because she has many and she knew Momochan liked it so much so I had I kept in my purse waitin the occasion to let Momochan use them.
As soon as Momo finish the turns on the big gummy slide, she runs towards Giorgia asking her to make a colourful make up on her face, Giorgia shows her a special new palette that looks like a rainbow and tells Momochan she will use that, the result is a cute rainbow on her face, Momochan is happy about it because she loves many colours togather and start to jump here and there smiling.

After that Momochan asks daddy if she can go jumping on the big jumping pad and daddy says "yesss", she has been a really good child recently ;)

It is funny to see Momochan on occasion of fairs, I do not like them so much but we go because I know she will amuse so much and that there is always something to see, games and something Momochan can do ;)

It is really amusing jumping like that, the man attaches Momo to a special climbing harness (foto left) and she starts to jump, sooooo high, she is really happy and laughs a lot ;)
Daddy looks her and I film her, she is jumping so high she seems to touch the sky, this  attraction is really fantastic HAHAHA and Momochan continues to laugh ;)
At 18.00 Momochan says she is a little tired and we start to go home but before she wants to pass through the park because she wants to go on the new slider the townall has set in january this year, a new cute sourprise of the starting new year. We stay just a little because around six o'clock start to become humid and also we want to go home in the warm ;)

mimosa ;)

Saturday morning has become our shopping day to go supermarket. It is not really nice because everybody goes today but it has become the only moring possibile as Sampei is homee free on sunday and in this day most shops are closed, so here we are at Esselunga superstore shopping veggies, meat, sweets, fruits ....

Arriving at the juices corner we notice some mimosa plants unsold from yesterday and as price is one third of yestaerday we buy one ! WEEEEEEEE Momochan and I have an entire plant of mimosa instead of just a bunch of flowers HEHEHE

Well OK is not a giant tree but next year if it survives, it will be biger and we will be able to see more flowers HAHAHA

woman's day

Momochan is happy ;)

MIMOSA CAKE

Today in Italy is woman's day and everywhere mimosa flower are sold, in out preferred coffee shop, inside the freezer Mimosa cake appears.
I do not know if somewhere mimosa cake exists but is a classical cake for today, mimosa cake is the exact contrary of blackforest cake which is entirely madde of chokolate but looks the same only brown in colour, both are soft, with cream or choko cream or lemon cream inside and the special appearance made of small dices and a half round shape. If you want to bake a mimosa cake, give a look at our recipe and you'll quickly have you dessert ;)

toddle walker ;)

Momochan has discovered her small blue EKORRE toddle wagon walker I gave her when she was 1 year old to help her walk ;)
She was not using it since a couple of years and I brought it in the new house and put it on top of her wardrobe just in case of use ;)
Momochan likes to put toys inside and pull it around, it is useful when she comes in the livingroom and wants to take a ton of items, she puts inside and she arrives ;)

dynosaurs show ;)

In a nearby city since two days has opened a new show regarding dynosaurus ;)

The show is divided into two parts: first part is inside a building, you can see images, explanations about the period in which dynos lived, fotos about how to make a dynosaur, and some "heads", secondo part is outside in a big garden space, where people can admire some of the ancient giants perfectly reproducted ;)

As daddy is home free from work on sunday, we decide it can be a nice way to stay alltogather and we propose it to Momochan who start to jump curious and ask about dynos.

We get out and as it is already lunch time, first stop is McDonalds because Momochan likes it and wee too want to have some fries and sandwiches. After lunch we start the short trip to Monza city where the show is held, Momochan is enthusiast, she loves going out with us and discover new things.

The Dynosaur Show is inside Monza park but the problem is, it is not very clear and simple to find the building with the dynos, the park is enormous and we walk I believe here and there for 4 km asking everybody about the show and how we can reach! finally a man gives us the right directions and we arrive.

An anormous diplodocus is in front of the main entrance door and kids are climbing on it, also Momochan wants to try and make foto below the big monster ;)

We give a look quickly at the images, old paleo rocks, dyno heads and explanantion how to build a dyno and we run out in the big space because we want to see the giant reproductions of the ancient monsters. Some of hem are really enormous like the first one we see, his head makes me remember of a big crocodile, he is high and has a kind of big sail, his head has enormous cutting teeth !

There is also a mammouth and some other small dynos and obviously the big T-Rex. The park is very big and cute, in ancient times, 200/300 years ago this place was the house of a powerful family who lived here with their servants, and all their animals, horses and dogs, walking inside tha park is long, the park is the garden of the house but is so big you can walk for an entire week without ever see the big building wich is the main house. In some of the park zone is still cold and you can still find some snow ;) Momochan loved this day but at last when we went back to the car to get home she was so tired she fall asleep until home ;)

PARCO DI MONZA dal 3 marzo al 28 luglio
costo biglietti 21,00 euro a famiglia (mamma/papà/bimbo sotto i 4 anni)