socks for Befana's day

For the Befana Day, Ikea stores have organized some activities so I have thought to take Momochan to the store near our house to let her play.
The activity for today isto make a special sock into which Befana will put some sweets in the night of the 5th.
Momochan is really happy about this idea and she starts to choose the fabric with which to realize the socks.
I help Momo with the decoration and in the meantime daddy and I can also have a quick snack: for the occasion Ikea store have suggested until 6th january, a special snack with cake and hot chokolate at a very low price ;)
As soon as Momochan has finished her sock she tell me in an ear she wants to come also tomorrow because she has amused so much ; )

Ikea treasure chest

In the afternoon Momochan and I are going to Ikea store for a treasure chest ;)
Nothing particular but we have chance to wander inside the store and give a look at the news, locations and new products, Momochan will win a toy and we will have ice cream too ;)
Items to find were not many, we composed all the poetry and then weent to take the prize: one of the big rats which Momo choosed in white ;)
We also had a pause at the coffee corner upstairs and had two ice creams, she amuses in putting the cone inside the manchine and insert the coin HAHAHA
We walked around and made several fotos of the X'Mas tree around to have some ideas on how to decorate our tree but we will have to buy some new paper decorations first ;)

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

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

ikea - cultivating plants

This afternoon Momochan and I are going to the last activity of the summer in Ikea: cultivating plants.
As soon as we arrive we see the tables organized with vases, seeds, earth, water, gardening tools, herb scissors and other accessories.
Momochan loves to play with earth and seeds, we have organized a small balcony with plants and flowers and she personally helps me caring about them, giving water, spraying with water on leaves and taking away dried ones.

Every morning she runs towards the window and looks at her two vases, the third day after the activity, seeds already germinated and now we have many small baby plants ;)

a day in Zoom Torino ;)

This morning Momochan and I leave home to go to Turin city. We want to have a small vacation and for that purpose I have booked a hotel in the center and bought a special packet that includes tickets for biopark and a night in the hotel, brakfast included, just the time to wake up, shower, dress and take the bagage and we are on the way ;)
After 50 km more or less we have a pit stop for coffee and Momochan orders a cup of milk, guess she tries to look like me.
In a little more than 90 minutes we arrive in Turin city, is nearly midday, we have to go hotel first to take the Zoom Biopark tickets.
Really Momochan is always like she is always in a hurry, she likes the animals but what she want most is to go to the Bolder beach pool but I have said her will we go to the pool only after having seen all the biopark and in a nervous moment she burst into tears, she is tired and hot does not help much.
As soon as we enter we see a strange thing: the cemetery of the extincted animals: dodo, some tigers and lions and some kind of bears.

Before going further we find a place where to stop and eat (is nearly 13.30 PM) other people with kids are eating already their pic nics foods.
Bolder Beach is just 20 meters from there and we can see ... but wee have to see the rest of the park or we will not be able to see after so Momochan starts to run to make quick. A funny lemuri  runs quickly in front of us and start to jump from a group of people to another then jumps into the little green forest of his place, Momochan laugh amused. Theese little penguins are very small but they are very quick when they swim, they look like missiles but when they are outside of water they are very funny and walk making little jumps bouncing here and there.

After returning a second time near lemuri, we finally succeed in seeing the black monkeys, when we apssed before, the monkeys were playing in the middle of the bamboos and we could not see also they have a dark colour so that in the shadow they literally disappear.