tinkle tinkle ...

Here is a small "tinkle tinkle" I made this morning (assembled) for Momochan, I realized it by cutting some shapes from Coca Cola cans, making two holes into every shape and attaching togather with clips, the transparent top is the bottom of a water bottle ;)

fresh pasta salad

In Milan is really hot now and temperature quite never goes under 30 degrees, the result is that inside kindergarden kids are always so sweaten, that are really wet, every day when I am going to take Momochan I have to take home, shower and change dresses :(
The result is that obviously Momochan is not hungry at all. I tried to give her a fresh food preparing a pasta salad mixing small diced mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and fresh basilicum we have on the balcony, Momochan was not really happy about her dinner but however she managed to eat everything even if with a little effort  ;)

granny's bday ;)

Tuday is granny's birthday so we have invited her to our house for dinner. In the morning while Momochan was at school I went to buy a present and in the afternoon togather with Momochan we have bought some pasticcini, granny will pay for two pizza margherita take away ;)

At 19.00 pm with the car, we have gone to take granny home, we have passed from our preferred chinese restaurant who makes take away food and fantastic pizzas and wee have come home.
Once entered Momochan gave granny her present: in a green packet I had put some products for sunbathing and golden make up which mommy can use this summer in july when she will go seaside ;)
Evening came out nice and around midnight we accompanied granny home because it was already late for sleeping time for Momochan and after having left granny and having controlled she has entered sfely house, Momochan and I came back, we made a fresh shower, opened the windows and lighted on the mechanical fan ;)

strawberry "granita" ;)

Today is really hot so as we were walking around for the plaza wee entered our preferred coffee shop, I bought a coffee for me and for Momochan I ordered a strawberry granita, it was so tasty that Momochan finished it in short time ;)

little fairy ;)

Momochan loves to dress as a queen fairy theese days, she has a big box like a treasure chest filled with carnival costumes, fairy, Zorro, pirate, plus a tons of accessories, wands, hooks, swords, strange and funny hats .... and she likes to dress and imagine to be someone else of the cartoon characters she sees on tv ;)

navigli with the bike ;)

Today we have gone to Navigli with the bicicle.

Before starting the little trip we go to our preferred coffee shop, mommy has a coffee and Momochan has a small apricot croissant.
As soon as we finish, we pay and start or little trip to Milan, about 22 km from our home.
As soon as we arrive is already time to eat so we go to a place we already know since much time and order two giant hot dog.

After the meal we take a walk around, the Navigli (click to know what it is) today are nearly deserted, nobody around and it is terribly hot. At 16.00 PM we decide is best to come back and on the road towards home we stop here and there to pick some flowers but as temperature is over 30 degrees flowers risk to die before arriving home, we manage to keep them the fresher possible with wet towels and a small bottle and finally we arrive home. I put immediately the flowers in frozen water and put in a corner where there is sufficient light but no sun and little by little while we are showering, the flowers live again ;)
When we got the dresses off to make shower we noticed we had bronzed a little: we have plenty of signs and skin is darker here and there !!!

american breakfast

This morning Momochan awakened around nine o'clock and went to the living room to watch Peppa Pig while I was still relaxing in the bed.
After a short time she came in my bedroom and said she was hungry if we could prepare breakfast: usually during the week we do not have time (also if I would have breakfast every day I would turn soooo fat) so normally she goes to the kitchen, open the fridge and takes a drinkable yogurt but on sunday (and saturday sometimes) we prepare the table in the kitchen and we have a special breakfast, every time different: can be japanese or frech, british breakfast or american, depending on "our moon" of the day but what she likes most is fried eggs with bacon, fruit juice (but never orange juice) corn flakes and yogurt not always and not every time togather ;)
Every time she goes to the kitchen she gives a glance at her personal strawberry plant which since wee bought and put in the earth in a vase on the balcony, continues to produce yummy strawberries. This morning she noticed two, absolutely small but anyway one of the couple was ready to be eaten so I went to pick it.
Then I started to cook some bacon and egg and she tooked all the rest: dishes, cups, tools, her juice, muesli ....
As soon ass we finished eating I started cleaning the floor with my vacuum cleaner and after asked her if she wanted to reach me on the balcony and help giving water to the flowers, she jumped up from the sofa (she was again watching cartoons) happily ;)
Momochan loves flowers and love to help so we gave water to all the plants and flowers of the balcony and after we prepared to make a walk outside and reach our preferred coffee corner, meanwhile  daddy called us: Momochan is happy to hear him but she never says what to tell so she just communicate him she was feeling his lack so much ;)
Daddy was still sleepy because he said, yesterday they had worked hard inside the restaurant because today is the opening day and everything had to be ready and perfect ;)

bedroom progresses ;)

Since we moved here I am working on Momochan's bedroom to create for her a place where she can stay, play, sleep, read her books and amuse in total realx and that also can reflect her happiness and love for colours, is not easy at all but I guess little by little the room is transforming into something cute, Momochan loves her room now and the fun thing is that room is not yet finished and anyway it will evolve in time according to her growth :)

first morning ;)

This morning Momochan awakened happy, she said she had slept sooo well in the big bed beacuse is comfortable (also because it's hot already I had opened the window by night so it was fresh).

I took the camera and snapped her some fotos she wanted to send to daddy to tell him "ohayou gozaimasu" ;)
The rest of the day went ok, she never went sad, maybe also because granny came here ;)

daddy leaving ....

Yesterday afternoon daddy has called from working place to tell us today he would leave for Sardinia for work, Momochan was not happy at all.

This morning we got up at 10.00 AM and Sampei started to organize and fill the suitcase and as soon as he finished I started to clean the floor and home.

During all this time, Momochan was playing on the sofa with her books and toys but when daddy finished to pack everything he reached her on the sofa for the japanese lesson at wich Momochan is very much interested, she is learning animal names and hiragana "letters", she is trying to write and she is really good already ;)

We went to take daddy to the restaurant to reach his collegues, we had already taken his suitcase before in the morning but wee had to come back home because daddy had a special exam to do for his allergies (we discovered he is not alergic to any particular food).

When we kissed and said "take care and come back soon" Momochan changedd to sad and made a so sad face she made me sad too.

This evening at home she was happy again, played with her toys and watched Doraemon cartoons on tv but as soon as it came time to sleep she asked to wear one fo daddy's t-shirt over her pijama and she said she wanted to sleep in our big bed ;)
I gave her one of daddy shirts (light blue, her preferred colour), took her milk bottle, put herr dummy under the pillow and she took her plush cat, she asked to hear on my cell phone a lullaby and soon she fall asleep, today she hasn't done any nap because we were around with daddy.
Daddy is still working now but we hope soon he can leave and start his voyage with his collegue towards Livorno before being too tired, 320 km until the harbour are really many kilometers, hope they will stop every 100 km and have a coffee and move a little, take fresh air and go slowly and safe. Sampei has promised to call us later in the night or send a message, at 6.00 AM he and his collegue will be already on the boat which will take them to Sardinia guess, around 14.00 PM more or less ;)

zoom torino bio-park

I have recently discovered (just because it has recently opened) a new bio-park in Turin city, 150 km from Milan where we live. There are many animals and it is divided into zones: Madagascar, Serengeti and Africa, Petra, Sumatra and Bolder Beach to see the penguins ;)
Visiting Zoom will be an extraordinary experience for Momochan, if someone needs there is also the possibility to have biologist and ornitologist who will inform and tell everything about the animals and the birds to have an instructive and amusing experience both for childs and adults ;)
Inside the bio-park there is an area with an enormous swimming pool (Bolder Beach), you have to bring from home a swimsuit and a towel and you can relax like in a carribean place: white soft sand, blue water and the cutest thing is that from the pool you can see the penguins (it just cost 4,00 euro more in add to the normal bio-park ticket).

HOTEL + BIOPARK
Going Zoom bio-park there is also the possibility to buy a special packet which permits you to have a voucher for the park and together an hotel bedroom for the night at a small price (give a look to have more infos about hotel + voucher)

Hotel Diplomatic****
Via Cernaia, 42, 10122 Torino
Tel +39 011 561.24.44 | Fax +39 011 540.472
Email info@hotel-diplomatic.it

Art Hotel Guala
Piazza Pietro Francesco Guala, 143
10135 Torino
Email: info@hotelguala.it
tel: +39 011 3179633 

To eat in the evening before going to sleep at the hotel, a good idea can be eating Happy Meals at McDonald's, (a couple of Happy Meals is just less than 10,00 euros) so here it is a link to find the nearest one ;)

RAPACI DI PETRA - gufo africano, allocco, aquila pettonero, falco, caracara

FATTORIA AFRICANA - lama, bue watusso, asino somalo, dromedario

MADAGSCAR - pellicani, lemuri, tartarughe giganti, fenicotteri

SUMATRA - tigri, antilopi, gibboni, istrici, oche egiziane, cervi chital

BOLDER BEACH - la baia dei pinguini

ZOOM TORINO
Strada Piscina 36
10040 Cumiana (Torino)
tel: 011-9070419

SERVIZI
Il Parco dispone di parecchi posti dove mangiare o bere bibite e caffè: Zula cafè (ristorante self sevice e bar), Mora Mora Pizza, Pelican Restaurant, Pavillon Cafè, Jungle Break
Zona Ranger Camp: è un angolo per bambini dove giocare, ci sono scivoli, la casa del ranger, una teleferica, ponti sospesi e altalene
Negozio dove comprare i souvenir del bioparco

COME ARRIVARE:
IN AUTO: imboccare la tangenziale Torino-Pinerolo fino all’uscita Piscina. Da qui seguire le indicazioni per Cumiana. Dopo circa 4 km troverai il bioparco ZOOM.
IN TRENO: da Porta Nuova prendere il treno che va a Pinerolo e scendere alla stazione di Piscina.

BIGLIETTI
OPEN (validi qualunque giorno)
adulti: 18,50 euro fixed day
bambini fino 12 anni e over 65 anni: 14,50 euro
BOLDER BEACH - con 4,00 euro in più a persona si può stare in piscina (portare costume e asciugamano) e mangiare un gelato o un caffè al bar della oasi ;) (read more about Bolder Beach)
GIORNO FISSO (validi il giorno che si entra)
adulti 14,50 euro
bambini fino 12 anni e over 65 anni: 11,50 euro

BOLDER BEACH - a cute carribean pool

BOLDER BEACH - look at the penguins from the pool !

BOLDER BEACH - cute for the entire family ;)

BOLDER BEACH - relax coffee corner

Museo Egizio (Torino)

MUSEO EGIZIO

Via Accademia delle Scienze, 6 

10123 Torino

tel: 011 561 7776 - tel: 011-440 6903 e-mail:  info@museitorino.it

DOVE SONO:

Autostrada: uscita Torino Nord o Torino Sud e proseguire per centro città

Mezzi pubblici -13; 55; 56; 72 - Metro fermata Porta Nuova

ORARI:

Da martedì a domenica dalle 8:30 alle 19:30 (ultimo ingresso alle 18:30).

BIGLIETTI:

Intero € 7,50 Ridotto € 3,50 (dai 18 e 25 anni)

Gratuito per minori di 18 anni e maggiori di 65

AUDIOGUIDE: per chi volesse sono disponibili a noleggio al costo di €  4,00 in italiano, inglese, francese,spagnolo e tedesco 
SHOP
Per scoprire tutti i prodotti disponibili presso il MuseumShop www.artefatto.com/egizio
Il negozio è aperto tutti i giorni con orario continuato, dalle 8.30 alle 19.30 (escluso il Lunedì)
Ci si può trovare una ricca selezione di libri per tutte le età ed un’ampia gamma di oggetti: riproduzioni di papiri, statue di faraoni e divinità, giochi, quaderni "egizi" di vario formato, l’esclusivo cubito reale (1 cubito reale corrisponde a circa 53 cm, un cubito normale a circa 47 cm) dell’architetto Kha o il curioso astuccio da scriba sono solo alcune delle numerosissime proposte.
Potrei trovare per Momochan un libro per bambini interessante da sfogliare insieme, o magari un ciondolo o qualcosa che può portare addosso o un charm per il suo zainetto, chissà ;)

Quest'anno i bambini al asilo hanno studiato l'opera di Verdi dell'Aida e alcune cose dell'Egitto come luoghi, profumi, spezie, abitudini, i faraoni, modi di vestire e mangiare e i personaggi della storia: Radamés (capitano delle guardie egizie), Amneris (principessa egizia), Aida (principessa etiope), Amonasro (re etiope e padre di Aida).
La loro recita di fine anno naturalmente questa volta è stata la rappresentazione a modo loro della storia di questi personaggi cosi ho pensato che potrebbe essere una buona idea portare Momochan al Museo Egizio in occasione della nostra visita al parco animali ZoomTorino, per il quale ho trovato un pacchetto che offre a costo economico, pernottamento e colazione in hotel più ingresso al bioparco, cosi visto che saremo già là, tanto vale approfittarne e portarla anche in centro a vedere il Museo cosi vede dal vivo i faraoni, le mummie, i reperti e tutte le cose che li riguardano ;)

our balcony ;)

Finalmente a casa abbiamo il balcone e piano piano lo stiamo riempiendo di piante e di fiori colorati come piace a Momochan ;)
Oggi abbiamo comprato un vaso grande e alto per l'acero che abbiamo in balcone, ne aveva bisogno se no sarebbe seccato, aveva bisogno di più terra e di un vasso più grande e poi alcune cassette per gli altri fiori nei vasetti qua e la e visto che a Momochan piace l'azzurro e io addoro quel fiore, abbiamo comprato una piantina alta con grappoli di fiorellini azzurrissimi ;)