rainbow stories kid park (follows)

As I imagined Momichan amused so much, as soon as she entered inside she started to get crazy and tell me to do quick because she wanted to play.
At the entrance I was given special sockes to wear over shoes, I took Momichan in the locker room and put on her personal socks with gummy so she is not able to slide and fall on the floor.

The big room is nearly 600 square meters and is filled by attractions and sliders.Just enough the time to take coat away and put socks and she escaped towards the big Peter Pan galeon which has a slider inside and many items you have to climb over or crawl under, there is the treasure chest to jump on it and the little sauvetage canoe to escape from Captain Hook !

The pavement of the entire room is covered by a soft gummy cover painted like a sky with many soft white clouds, it all perfectly clean as nobody is allowed to go inside with shoes, every kid has to wear special socks and adults has to wear plastic shoes cover (like the ones used by doctors at the hospitals).
Just next to the galeon there is a kind of castle to climb over and follow some route, there is also a balance hanging down. and two sliders one of them covered falling down on a space filled with thousands of little coloured balls.
Next to this there is a big gummy slider of the Little Mermaid with a big octopus on it, Momichan followed to climb on it and slide down HAHA it is quite high but she was not frightened at all and amused so much, she likes to climb and then jump a little at the top before sliding down and as soon as she is down she runs to climb over again and again.
There is a coffee corner in the middle dominating every side of the giant park so that if you are tired, you can sit there sipping a coffee or eating an ice cream while the kid is playing and you can easily look at him.
In the middle of the big space there is a special zone reserved to kids from 0 to 4 year old (eventually for brothers of sisters of the kids having parties). Pavement is covered by another coloured thick gummy blue, yellow and red puzzle carpet, to protect babies from accident falls, there is a giant flower (one meter and a half large) they sit on, a little house, (there is another little house just behind out of the special babies zone), two jumping gummy horses, (one green and another blue), two little cars with door opening to climb inside, tricycles and a pool filled with balls inside which you can enter with a small slide.
Momichan liked to jump inside the pool and play with the balls throwing them everywere, then played with the cars pretending to come home in the evening from work and she entered the little house, (equipped with a small kitchen inside: sink and fawcett, dish drainer, cook top), she loves little cars and she likes the little house because she can play hide-and-seek inside.

After nearly three hours playing she was tired and told me she wanted to go home. We choosed dishes, glassees, towels (she wanted Snowhite) food (nutella milk breads and focaccia, popcorn, tea and gas water), the man gave us the inviting cards and once home I started to write the names of the kids one for each card and the details of the party (day and time) to distribute at kindergarden. Just after dinner Momichan fall asleep with her milk bottle still in her hands ^O^

arcobaleno delle favole

Today is the last day Momichan and kids are going to kindergarden until next wednesday. during Halloween and All Saints Day, schools and many offices will be closed, some stores, places and resorts in which parties will be organized will be open.

This afternoon, as soon as Momichan will be out of kindergarden at 16.00 PM, I will take her to a wonderful place (we can reach it easily because is just near home) in which she can play, and while she is playing I will ask all the infos I need to organize her the best birthday party ever ^O^

I discovered this place just by chance and really I think is much much better than the other we had choosed for her bday party, its name is ARCOBALENO DELLE FAVOLE. When I saw this one on the internet I thought this one would have been gorgeous so I canceled the reservation in the other place and today I will reserve party there, I already have gone yesterday to order a special b'day cake ! When I called the other day to have some infos, they told me, between al the other informations they gave me, they can make pop corn there so that it will be fresh (well ... hot salty, buttery and YUM YUM prepared at the very moment), in the other place pop corn would have been the one you can buy in enevlopes at the supermarket .... Momichan gets crazy for pop corn, when I told her about that she jumped up happily and said "yeee thankee mama, cuuuuuuute !"

We can also change beverages according to what we think is better (not coca cola or sprite for 3 years old kiddies but fruit juices, gas water, and fruit tea), games and attractions are 5 times more also there are more attractions for the kids who have fear to play with "gonfiabili" (the castle full of air on which you can jump on it and has a slider on the other side like the Aladdin castle you can see on the foto), there is a small house, kid scooters, a place in which kids can play ball, sliders, hide and seek corners, a big Pirates galeon with special games inside, and much more.
The walls of this kid park are all decorated like a magic forest (in the other place it was all white ...) and for the adults there is also a coffee corner, for the summer they also have a small swimmpool outside in their small garden.

It will be nice to go and play this summer when kindergarden will be closed, eventually organize a party for "happy finish school". The kid park works even as baby parking (if you need to do something but you cannot take your child with you).

It is a place you can organize parties and a place you can always go to play when you want to go outside and weather is not good but is too bad to stay home, and most of all is less than 10 minutes by feet from our house !!!
Today we will see, I will take Momichan and I will see if she likes the place but I guess she will get literally crazy, she had liked the other one which was really poor, she will love this one which is ten times better ^O^

Interesting day

This morning we decided to have a busy funny interesting day, first go to the Town Aquarium to see fishes, the Aquarium is located in the center city near a big castle where there are always exibitions to see, have a walk along the castle and see if there is something interesting to look inside, doing "splish splash" in the fountain and have a sandwich, then see what fantasty suggest. At the entrance of the Aquarium there is a small fountain with water coming out from a big hippo mouth filled with red fishes. Momichan is enchanted by all the different fishes, stars, crabs, octopus and she runs and jumps here and there to look.
There is a special pool shaped like an arch so that you can walk under it and see fishes swimming over you (foto), every kid loves this but today there are no kids inside, we have all the aquarium all for us.
After fishes we direct to the nearby big fountain shaped like a cake and after having done "splish splash" inside the water jumping and walking we go to buy a coffee for me and a sandwich (the sandwich there are enormous so we can eat one divided for each of us), Momichan has her own water bottle so we can save some money.

Momichan loves to make "splish splash" inside the fountain, she always asks me to do everytime we come near this place. The Castello Sforzesco (click to read about the story of this castle) is really immense, the courtyard inside is enormous, there are big round towers and a big clock, the moath where once there was water and the park.

We enter inside the courtyard where once people got in with carriages and horses, there is an exibition inside showing old tapestry, ancient armours, guns, swords and statues, there is also a little shop displaying books and funny games. Momichan is enchanted by the armours and by a horse with his rider armoured on it.
Seeing the books an another idea comes out, there is a big book store coming home not verry far from we are now, we can have a look inside.
Ouside again we walk in the big park where there are enormous trees and so much grass that peolple sits on it or takes sun or a nap, Momichan prefers to run after the pigeons and she amuses so much.

We reach our car and we direct to the big library. There is a big section about kids books and games, puzzles and Hello Kitty items and also a small space for Peppa Pig books and colouring albums ! I buy a couple of books for Momi, she plays and looks everywhere an an hour flows quickly. Time to have a breack, an ice cream seems a yummy idea so we pay the books and we go to the nearby McDonalds where wee have a small french fry and a strawberry milkshake. Momichan doesn't want to show but she is tired, she has not slept today up till now and we have to go home.
Just one more thing before arriving home, we stop at the supermarket to by a packet of nappies (Momi still needs for the night). At home is time to look tv toons Peppa Pig while I am busy in the kitchen to prepare dinner. After meal a quick hot shower and fresh pijama, her milk bottle and Momichan is ready to dream ^_____^

Easter time

Happy Easter time everybody !
In a few days we will start to prepare the Easter Tree, I have to find a suitable piece of wood and we will decorfate it with flowers, small eggs and chicks, Momichan will enjoy so much HEHE

Momi and her sporty car ...

Oh yess !!! don't get mistaked but Momichan has a car ^^
Sure but not a real car, an old type pink car she received for the baptism in february from her uncle. The car named MOMO 1 is still big for her, she cannot seat alone andher legs are still short to reach the floor but anyway today she amused herself going around and turning the wheel left and right helped by me or her granny ^^
Here she is ^________^




(ITALIANO)

Momichan ha una macchina ^^
Si davvero ma non una vera macchina, una macchinina per bambini ros vecchio style tipo Triumph col volante che gira le gomme bianche sportive ^^
Al momento però lei è ancora troppo piccina e non arriva con le gambine al pavivento per spingersi ma lo stesso oggi si è divertita girando il volante a destra e sinistra e girellando per il salotto aiutata da me o dalla sua nonna ^^

Momo ^^

Here is Momochan today, she is playing with her clown waiting to go out for a walk ^^
We have to gou buy her milk again hoping this time package is 800 gramms instead of 600 gr



(ITALIANO)
Ecco Momochan oggi mentre gioca col suo clown in attesa di uscire ^^
Dobbiamo di nuovo andare a comprare il suo latte in farmacia ^^

A New Present ^^

A friend of mine since long time who has 2 children, has recently given me some dresses andtoys for Momichan that she doesn't use any more because her kids have grown up.
Dresses are so cute andstill less used I will not need to buy any for my baby since we got now enough :-) and also toys she gave us some more like this cute clown that is really new and Momichan likes quite a lot because it tinkles and has a star/mirro that she can look herself inside (do not know if she knows the image belong to herself but anyway it makes a cute light when the sun strikes through)

(ITALIANO)
un amica di lunga data che ha due bambini più grandi di Momo mi ha dato recentemente tre scatoloni di abitini che loro non mettono più perkèsono diventati piccolo e alcuni giocattoli, uno è il clown che vedete qui sopra, nuovissimo, Momi lo adora perkè suona e tintinna e ha uno specchietto in cui si vede non so se ha capito di essere lei ma le piace perkè la luce fa buffi giochi quando colpisce lo specchietto ^^

Toys ^^

Momichan is starting to use both hands to take things and also she has now better capability to take her bottle bu herself. Today she was playing with a new item, a kind of carpet for kids in wich there are a loto of things to discover and try ^^

(ITALIANO)
Momichan cresce e impara nuove cose, oggi sta giocando con un tappeto attività arivato in regalo da una mamma che non lo usa più perchè la sua bimba ormai è grande.

Momichan's toy basket ^^

The other day we went Ikea store to buy some items for Momichan, and I also took a basket to contain all the pelouches of the baby and them comfy near the sofa to play when she's awake.
Problem was that dust could easily enter in it from everywhere so I decided to make a kind of lining using a piece of cotton I had in my special cupboard.
Te result is a basket nicer than before and here it is, with all the toys inside, Momichan loves to have all theese near her so can choose what she wants ^^


You can see the little elefant with the ears she can bite, the duck carillon, a puppet and so many others ^^


(ITALIANO)
L'altro giorno siamo andati al Ikea a comprare un paio di cose per Momichan e tra le altre ho reso anche un cestino per avere a portata di ano tutti i suoi giochetti e pelouche quando ne ho bisogno ma c'era un problema, si sarebbero riempiti di polvere da tutte le parti cosi ho pensato di fare uan odera con un pezzo di stoffa che avevo nel mio armadio speciale con tutti i pezzi di stoffa colorati che trovo e ripongo per le occasioni che servono.
Momi adora il suo cestino, cosi può scegliere i giochi da sola quando vuole ^^
Potete vedere l'elefantino dentarolo con le orecchie mordicchiabili, l'anatra carillon col becco rosso, un alce marionetta e vari altri ^^

Ikea pelouche

In the past, whenever I thought to have a baby, always I have thought I would have bought him/her pelouche, Lego, books and toys that would develop the fantasy rather than electronic robots of every kind of stupid things that would be used once and after forgotten in a corner alone so I was obviously really happy as soon as I discovered Ikea for children ^^
At the first floor of the store, (1 km from my house) recently enlarged and biggest store in Italy ever with his new 33,000 square meters, there is a large place for the kiddies with every kind of pelouche so soft and colorful, story books (norvegian and classic ones) with many images and colours, little trains and wooden pieces to make the train run, pastels, paints and paper, scissors, rattlers and little toys for very small babies, cristal glasses (in plastic) and potteries for tea for girls, pearls to form images, make bracelets or whatever fantasy suggest and so many other items.
Nice is that every year there is something new, so we can always have new books or characters to play what we want.
I started when Momichan was still inside, around the 7th month, to go and buy items we would use togather, I bought a bunny and a little bear (classic), a little train, pearls to create, pencils and a book Momi will have to colour the images.
After a little time new products came, a crocodile and the book of her story and new pelouches related to the world of fantasy, mices, frogs, cows all dressed in a strange way, among which I found this one ^^

























It's a frog extremely soft, about 25 cm height, the dress you can take away and leave it nude, she posesses a couple of wings like the fairies and a friendly smile. For the moment Momichan plays with Toponzo but I guess she will play also with all the other things in a few months ^^

(ITALIAN)
In passato ongi volta che ho pensato di avere un bimbo ho sempre immaginatoche non gli avrei mai comprato tutti quei giochi elettronici costosi che di solito i bambini usano una volta e poi buttano in un angolo, ho sempre pensto che al mio bimbo avrei comprato cose che stimolano la fantasia come i giochi che ho avuto io, i Lego, puzzles, (beh io avevo anche 9 Barbie HEHE e le ho ancora in una scatola) tanti libri di fiabe e di altre cose a seonda del età, )adesso ci sono libri per bambini bellissimi che quando ero piccola io non c'erano), pelouche e tutte quelle cose che si possono usare miliardi di volte e ogni volta in modo diverso anche se adoro alcuni giochini elettronici dabimbi comei telefonini delal chicco coi tastoni luminosi che insegnano inglese e i numeri e lampeggiano e suonano e cose del genere.
Detto questo sono stata felicissima quando ho scoperto il reparto Ikea dei bambini, il negozio Ikea sta a 900 metri da casa nostra e dopo la ricostruzione da zero (hanno abbattuto il vecchio negozio e rifatto tutto da zero parcheggio compreso) è diventato il negozio più grande d'Italia coi suoi 33,000 mila metri quadri ^^
Nel suo reparto bambini si trovano un sacco di libri di fiabe con tante figure e immagini colorate, matite pastelli, pennelli, rotoli di carta lunghissimi, servizi da the e biccheiri di cristallo (ma fatti di plastica) per far prendere il thè alle bambole, micro borse per giocare alle signore, perline da infilare per creare qualunque cosa, trenini in legno con le piste e pezzi aggiuntivi per farne sempre una diversa a seconda del umore, cavallini a dondolo e mille altre cose ^^
Quando ero incinta di 7 mesi non ho resistito a comprare a Momi alcune cose al Ikea, le perline, una pista e un trenio con vagoni aggiunti, alcuni pelouche ta i quali il classico coniglietto e orsetto in versione mini, questi sono alti circa 25 cm e adatti a una bimba piccina (ma ho anche un altro orsetto sempre Ieka un pò più grande per quando avrà almeno 2 anni), 4 topolini di diverso colore tra i quali c'è Toponzo, il preerito da Momichan forse perkè è morbidissimo e piccolino e questa buffa raga che ha gambe lunghe e un abitino che si può togliere completamente e lasciarla nuda, è dotata anche di un paio di ali da fatina e fa parte di una buffa collezione tutta di animaletti fantasia topini, gattini, conigletti e ranocchie ^^

Going Ikea

Today a friend had to come on visit to meet Momichan so we went to Ikea which is the only shop open on sunday here in the nearby, to buy some sweets to offer her because our fridge was nearly empty.
Momichan was happy to go around, we took her ovetto so she could see around and we arrived at Ikea store. First thing we went to, was kid toys, peloche and books (I will have to buy some of the books, stories are fantastic and they have a lot of coloured images).
Momichan was so happy when I showed her a duck whose neck you can pull and emits a cute music (it is a carillon) and the other, which I hope will become shortly her best friend now, is an elephant with special ears she can bite expecially now her teeth are growing, also theese two pelouches are small enough for her to hold and use right now ^^



















(click on the images to see them bigger)

After half an hour we got home, friend would arrive at 15,00 o clock so we preared sweets on the kichen table and I changed diaper to Momichan and gave her her bottle to eat.
When friend arrived we discovered she hat taken a present for Momi, 5 rattlers pelouche, cow, sheep, zebra, monkey and a mouse ^^
Momi was happy about them but was too tired to paly and was half asleep, when friend after one hour went away she fall completely asleep.
Now she had her bottle and still is sleeping a little, I will give a wash at the pelouches and put them all togather in a new basket bought at Ikea store on purpose to contain her her little toys ^^

carnevale

Some days ago in Italy was Carnevale, a period of one week in which children go everywhere dressed with strange dresses like whiches, old ladies of 1800, monsters, heroes, practically whatever they want. In this period also we eat special sweets called "chiacchere" e "tortelli" and in many families they use this week (like we did) to go in the mountains to ski.
Mommy said that when I was little in this period I had a costume of a geisha, it was red and I was nearly 9 months old ^_______^
Well, Momichan is really too small now and we didn't have any money in this period but I think eventually I would have dressed her somethig like this:




The ladybug sac comes from this site, Eurekakids but in Milan we have also a big Disney Store where we can buy dresses of princesses and of any kind all the year long because is so cute ad important for kiddies to have the possibility to disguise and play thinking to be someone else ^^

(ITALIANO)
Pochi giorni fa a Milano si è festeggiato Carnevale, un periodo di uan settimana in cui i bambini si travestono in mille modi da damine, insetti, mostri e qualunque cosa solletichi la loro fantasia, si mangiano chiacchere e tortelli, ci si diverte tra lazzi e scherzi e in molte famiglie è l'occasione per farsi una settimana sulla neve a sciare.
Quando avevo circa 9 mesi mi ha detto la mamma, avevo indossato in questo periodo un costume da geisha, era in seta rossa ^^
Momichan è davvero piccina e noi quest'anno non avevamo soldini ma se avessi potuto avrei vestito la piccina come questa foto, da Coccinella ^^
La foto viene dal sito Eurekakids ma a Milano abbiamo anche un grande Disney Store che vende cstumi tutto l'anno, principesse, re leoni, fatine, pirati cosi che i bimbi possano giocare quando vogliono a inventarsi di essere qualkuno o qualcosa d'altro ^^