halloween meal ;)

This evening Momochan and I were watching tv waiting for some friends to come so as to go wandering around for "trick or treat".
At 19.30, Momochan is sitting on the sofa watching "Dragontrainer" when the bell rings, I open the door and hear "trick or treat" ! in front of me there are a group of witches asking for candies so I give them some ;)

After a few minutes the bell rings again and again we discover another group of monsters asking for candies.
As it is later than I thought, I believed we would have stayed home, outside is already dark also I have just put in the oven our special nuggets and fries shaped skull, vampires and pumpkins but as kids are continuously ringing the bell I tell Momochan to seize her costume and pumpkin bag to get out with the other kids.
Momochan is very happy about the idea and dresses quickly, in a moment we are out, the oven will stop after 30 minutes and keep food warm ;)

I am dressed too, I wear my skeleton costume.
We start to climb the stairs up and down and ring other bells to ask for treats, here and there, then we go completely out of the building togather with the other kids and get inside of the other buildings.
In a short time Momochan pumpkin bag is full of chokolates, candies and fruits ;)
Momo is enchanted and really happy, at the start she was shy but soon she amuses so much to ring the bell and ask for "trick or treat" ?? HAHAHA
Around 20.30 we decide is time to come back home and have our special meal, the other kids are slowly going away and inside apartments treats are finishing, one of the last ladies we rang the bell, gave us a banana and a apple HAHAHA
We say "hello" to the other kids and we climb the stairs to get to our house and soon discover the oven has cooked perrfectly our food and it is still warm ;) YUPPIIIIIIIIIIIIII On the table halloween themed dishes and towels wait to be filled ;)

preparing halloween

Today at Lidl stores Halloween products have come out on sale and as we want to buy them we have reachede the store early at 9.30 while Momochan was inside kindergarden.
Momochan and I will go togather the 1 november at 15.30 at a cute Halloween party, so I needed costumes and something to eat for our private party at home, just the two of us because daddy has to work ;)
I have bought fried potatoes, nuggets, ice creams shaped pumpkins, juices, muffins, a pair of costumes: skeleton for me and spider for Momochan ; )
Momo and I will have a creepy evening on 31 october, we have decorated a little our livingroom and her bedroom with pumpkins, scary ghosts, zombies, lanters which sound like ghouls.
We will be dressed with our new costumes and will watch on tv special cartoons or something she can watch without being too frighted, have a special meal with nuggets, fries, a looooot of ketchup and treats ; )
We will dance macabre music and read creepy and scary stories and walk for the entire house with ghost lanterns lauging and screaming ;)
The 1 november instead, Momochan will go kindergarden just half day, she will get out at 13,15 I will take her home, shower and put to bed for the nap because at 16,00 we have to be at the special kids halloween party in our special playing zone where Momochan will jump and run, go on the sliders, eat creepy food, play hide and seek with other kids in the monster cave, have a scary face make up and more while I will just look and have a coffee sitting in the middle of the room in the coffee zone dressed and make upped like a skeleton, yessssss this year I will be dressed too !!! HAHAHA last year I saw many magicians, skeletons and vampires, but I did not have chance to buy a costume, thanks to Lidl this year my costume and Momochan's were so economic that i bought, just the price of three happy meals ! HAHAHAHA
I will post after the foto with the costumes but we have to be maked up so we can be more scary HIHIHIHIHI

halloween shopping monday

This morning daddy is coming with us to kindergarden to take Momochan. Afterwards we have to go to Lidl store to buy some special Halloween foods and costumes: Momochan wants a spider one and for me best is skeleton, also I have to buy special make up. Momochan and I will go to a Halloween party the 1st november at our preferred kidzone place of the town.
The foods and costumes will use and eat also the 31 evening at home, while daddy will be at work Momochan and I will have a private party at home playing, hearing scary music, watch on tv scary toons or film, paying and having special evening menu ;)

new berret

New berret for Momochan ;)
Weather is getting cold so Momochan needs a new berret to stay warm, so we have gone to Decahlon store and after having tried many different berrets she has choosen this one, white and pink ;)

Le Cornelle Animal Park

LE CORNELLE
Via Cornelle, 16
24030 Valbrembo (Bergamo)
tel: 035.527640

As daddy is still on vacation until 3 october, we have decided to take Momochan to Le Cornelle Animal Park so we can have sone time togather doing something nice ;)
This park is really cute, has many and many animals who live in quite large spaces which looks like their own original places. You can find white lions and tigers, rhynos, gyraffs, elephants, suricata, hippos, birds, monkeys, giant turtles, penguins and other animals.
Momochan liks this park so much, we have already been there many times and we will come back tomorrow with daddy and make a lot of photos ;)

teru teru bozu

Do you know Teru Teru Bozu ?
The other day we were making project to go to a faunistic animal park and as weather is quite cloudy, I prepared a Teru Terru Bozu and gave Momochan to hang onthe window to be sure to have good time the day after.

Teru Teru Bozu is a little traditional handmade doll made of white paper or cloth that Japanese farmers began hanging outside of their window by a string.

In shape and construction they are essentially identical to ghost dolls, such as those made fort Halloween.
This amulet is supposed to have magical powers to bring good weather and to stop or prevent a rainy day. "Teru" is a Japanese verb which describes sunshine, and a "bōzu" is a Buddhist monk

Traditionally, if the weather does turn out well, eyes are drawn in (compare daruma), a libation of holy sake (神酒) is poured over them, and they are washed away in the river.
Today, children make teru-teru-bōzu out of tissue paper or cotton and string and hang them from a window when they wish for sunny weather, often before a school picnic day while hanging it upside down instead, acts like a prayer for rain. They are a very common sight in Japan.

This is the song kids sing while hanging Teru Teru at a window at home before going out for a pic nick or else and they need a nice day:

TERU TERU SONG

Teru-Teru Bouzu, Teru Bouzu,
ashita tenki ni shite o-kure.
Itsuka no yume no sora no you ni haretara gin no suzu ageyo.
Teru-Teru Bouzu, Teru Bouzu,
ashita tenki ni shite o-kure.
Watashi no negai wo kiita nara amai osake wo tanto nomasho.
Teru-Teru Bouzu, Teru Bouzu,
ashita tenki ni shite o-kure.
Moshi mo kumotte naitetara sonata no kubi wo chon to kiru zo