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If you are starting to give the first foods to your baby, here are some recipes using Mellin products, (you can use Plasmon of what you like most) some of them Momichan is liking so much.
Omogeneized baby foods are quick and practical, perfect and ready to use and you can also easily take with you if you move outside your house for a meal or a snack either if you go to the restaurant and take the baby with you ^^

QUICK SNACK
You need:
a vase of cheese
a vase of fruits











For a quick snack easy to take everywhere you can go, you can take with you two vases of omogeneized Mellin, fruits (apple, pear, peach or what ever your kid likes) and cheese (you see the images over).
Is enough you use half of cheese and entire of fruits and mix, it will contain enough calcium and vitamins, perfect for theese days of hot weather ^^

VEAL DINNER
You need:
a carrot
one potato
20 gr of CHICCORIS Mellin
1 vase of omogeneized veal meat Mellin
a spoon of olive oil

Clean potato and carrot, cut into small pices and boil in a little water and when broth is ready use it to cook the Chiccoris pasta.
When pasta is ready, add half vase of veal and mix, add one spoon of olive oil and give to your baby ^^

OSTRICH AND TOMATO
You need:
1 tomato (starting from the 8th month)
half carrot and half zucchini
5 spoons of semolino Mellin
1 vase of ostrich meat Mellin
1 spoon of olive oil
1 spoon of parmesan cheese
Wash and clean weel the veggies, cut into small pices and boil, use the broth to cook the semolino. Cook a few minutes the tomato, peal and take seeds away and add to the veggie broth you have done. Add the ostrich meat, parmesan cheese and olive oil.

VELOUTE' WITH CHICKEN
You need:
1 zucchini
1 potato
1 vase of chicken meat
half glass of Mellin Milk 2

Clean and cut the veggies into small pices and boil in water until soft, then smash them to obtain a cream. Add the milk and boil togather for a while.
Add the chicken meat and mix well and give to your baby.
You can also use omogeneized veggies if you do not have fresh, you can find carrots, zucchini and mixed veggies or you can use ready powdered veggies broth.

Hot Day, An Unsual Place To Have Bath

Today is a really hot day, I made a shower just a few minutes ago and I am again all sweaten, is too humid here !!!
I cannot even figure out how Momichan is feeling, so little baby, so I decided to let her play inside water in her little tub, giving her some toys. The place is unusual because normally she takes bath in the bathroom (her tub inside my big one) but as today I neede to clena and wash pavements I put her tub in the genkan 玄関 and here she is ^^



She amused herself so much, playing, laughing and shouting for fun until dinner time,a clean pijama and a fresh dinner and she is ready to go bed and I am ready to make dinner myself, watch a little tv and relax.


Her new game is throwing her toys outside the tub and see if she can take them again (upper foto) here she is trying to catch her plastic frog ^^

ciao ciao

Trying To Walk

Momichan is always trying to walk by herself but up till now she doesn't have the right balance so she cannot walk alone until I am giving her my hands to move but she's funny and sooner or later she will succeed ^^
Here she is ^^


ciao ciao

Garden Crawling

Momichan is having fun going here and there for my mum's garden, she loves the grass :-) most of the times she takes the grass and puts into her mouth :-) seems she wants to tast every corner of the garden HAHA

Ciaoooooooo

Momichan says "hallo" with her hand ! It's the first time ever she does and her father had the rare occasion to make the foto ^^

Taking A Bath

When I wash Momichan in the morning I always use to shower her, Momi quite never takes a bath because it takes more time but recently she does in the evening before dinner so that she relaxes a lot and after dinner she falls asleep better.
The novelty is that now she really gets crazy for the bath, she has started to use hands to play with water and her toys while before she stayed calm and quite unmoving. She loves her duck and gets crazy for the frog ^^

VIDEO TO BE UPLOADED SOON

Growing And Changing .....

I was looking at Momichan's fotos and noticed how much she has changed in only 7 months, we do not see because we live togather but the other do and we can only if we look at her fotos, give a look yourself ^^
Foto on the left Momichan is 7 months old, foto on the right she is 2 weeks old^^

New Progresses

The other day a strange thing happened, I was in the bathroom taking a shower and Momichan was in the genkan and she was searching for me, she was weeping, I said to her " mommy is in the bathroom, come here sweetie" and this time in a couple of seconds she entered the bathroom crawling as quick as she could and she produced a smile, something like "ta dah I have found you mommy, I know where bathroom is" ! I was astonished :-P

Also everytime I am saying to her, "sweetie come with mommy" and she is crawling on the pavemant, she follows me werever I am going in the house, I am trying to leave her "walk" as much as I can instead of blocking her on the sofa I leave her free to move wherever she wants and this seems it works WEEEE

This evening I tried another thing, every good mother knows babies have to go to sleep around 21.00 but Momichan eventually because of the hot weather, every time doesn't fall asleep until midnight and this causes me to have dinner around 1.00 o' clock in the morning and to realx a little on the sofa beore going bed so this evening I tried to put her to bed earlier ....
We had been to the swimming pool around 4.00 pm because it was really hot and Momi had not taken her nap, she refused totally even if she was sleepy so much.
In the swimmpool this time she amused so much, we had already gone to the pool 4 times but after we blocked and now we returned after nearly one month, this time Momichan moved legs and laughed, she amused really, while the previous times she stayed unmoved hooking me not really relaxed but everytime anyway she seemed more cautios than afraid,well today for the first time she felt good ! YEAH !
So, after swimmpool we turned back home, I made laundry and after we got out once more, it was still early and inside home it was hot so we took the stroller and went to the park on the balance, she loves it, and we met so many nice kiddies and so many nice mums and as Momi was ont he balance amusing so much I was chatting along. Then I took her in the arm to make another kid go on the balance, gave her the camomilla bottle and she fall finally asleep sweet child.
I wen on chatting so that she could sleep quietly (if I put suddendly ont he stroller she awakes so I have to wait a little) and after a while I decided it was time to go home, it was already nearly 8.00 pm. Arrived at home I made her a fresh bath and put on clean diaper and clean pijama, gave her dinner (carrots and philadelfia, she loves both) she ated all and wanted also a banana danito, then she started closing eyes and touch the eys with her tiny hands so I thought "is best if this time I try to put her to bed now insteda of waiting the classic 10 minutes because otherwise she awakes and until midnight she is not sleeping.
I put her to bed, made a shower and after went to see her, she was weeping and also she needed change diaper again, so I changed, put to bed agan and always with soft voice said her I was going to make my food and a milk bottle for her, well it has not been so easy, but speaking softly and calmly and going three times to see her and giving milk bottle, I succeeded, at 9.15 pm she was sleeping in her bed ! YEEEE
I have decided I will always try from now on to do this way, is best for her even if is not easy at the start she will cry a little everytime for a while maybe but she will take the habit little by little so I will be free in the evenings and she will have a better routine to follow:
Not that I am a horrible mother but recently I was not succeeding in putting her to bed at the right time and today I am satisfied of myself and of my baby so as we say よくできましたね！やった！！！

さようなら, ciao ciao ^^

Ryuki, my nephew

As you probably know, Momichan has a cousin, his name is 琉絆 (Ryuki)) and he is now 6 months old, weights 7 kilos and is as tall as Momichan, 67 cm, we have received his foto today ^^
Ryuki's father is the brother of Momi's daddy, we had been invited in Japan last year in march for his wedding, Ryuki has been created during their honeymoon ^^
Foto on the right is Ryuki the day of his birth 6 january 2009, foto on the left is the one we received today, guess is recent theese days ^^

Momichan Today

Momichan is going around the house with her new casquet and seems she likes it, at least she does not take it away ^^
This foto has been made this morning, she has already done breakfast and she waiting for us (we are cleaning the house as every morning) playing with her toys in the living room ^^
And this is Momi in the afternoon, she has been dressed with a pink fresh dress because outside is really hot and humid about 36 C degrees ^^

She is feeling happy because she can stand by herself but after the foto I had to catch her to prevent her from falling ^^

ciao ciao

Momichan And Felix

Since Momichan is crawling and getting faster everyday more, she tries to reach Felix to caress him but the cat, maybe afraid of a new little human who is getting quicker bigger than him, is not really ill at ease, so he gets away keaving poor Momi in anger ^^

Soft Helmet

Momichan is starting to move everywhere, she wants to walk but many times she falls down also she moves fast now, so fast that sometimes we are not able to catch her before she falls down from sofa or bed (we have put soft cushions and carpets to help her) so to prevent damages to her head, this morning we went to Prenatal store and we bought her a special helmet, it's soft and aereated as you can see in the photo, although she sweats a lot. I feared she wanted to take away but seems she likes it, I made her see in the mirror and she laughed a lot, she never took the new special cap away, hope it will help also because in our new home, the walls are dangerous for her because are not like the normal ones, they are covered by many little stones, the italian name for that type of covering walls is "strollatura" (to see how it looks like give a look at this piece of wall of my mum's house).

Crawling here and there in the house, Momichan saw our cat Felix and she now moves quite well, she wanted to catch him but I guess the cat was not of the same idea ...
See the video ^__________^

VIDEO TO BE UPLOADED SOON

ciao ciao ^^

Stroller

As Momichan is bigger now, I thougth I could start to use the stroller instead of the ovetto, also because inside ovetto she always tries to get up and to put herself in the four legs position so eventually inside the stroller front street position instead of front mum she would appreciate.
At the beginning seemed she loved, she is so curious and looked everywhere but guess when she is tired she does not like the stroller either because after a while she started to cry and wanted to get out of it ^^

ciao ciao

Noodles !

Momichan is starting to eat noodles instead of classic infant food, so yesterday I bought some little spaghettini, some rings and some shells.
Today for lunch I choosed the shells and boiled in water, added in her plate some omogenized tomato and veggies and made a normal pastasciutta that we childish was call "pasciuttina" ^^
Seems she loves it really because we already gave her three times and she eated it all every time, she opens mouth so much and she's totally happy ^^

CIAO CIAO ^^

Cookie !

Doctor didn't told us anything at all about breakfast for our baby, she said us only what to give for normal meals so Momichan since 2 months already is having lunch, oyatsu and dinner that she eats with the spoon, bottles she uses only for her milk in the evening and at night at 23.00 and 05.00 o'clock but since a week we have added also breakfast ^^
We try to give her different foods everytime, sometime she eats a danito, or a yogurt and fruits or fruit omogenized like today.
As she has two teeth now and likes to bite everything, we thought it was nice for her to chew a cookie so after she had eaten all her fruits we gave her a cookie. She liked it so much that she eat it quickly, obviously we gave her a Plasmon cookie, the ones you can put in the milk and melt ^^

Baby Walking ^^

Momichan is growing very fast really, every day is a tons of sourprises.
Today we were in mum's garden and I was holding Momi by her arms and she was standing barefeet in the grass trying to walk, well ... she put a feet after another so quickly she did 4 meters nearly running !!! HAHAHA she still doesn't have the right balance to stand by herself and walk alone but if I hold her she does ^^
When we came back home (our home) she was sleepy and tired so I gave her a bottle insteda of her meal but she awaked again and started to play. I put her near the sofa with her toys (as you see in the foto below)

and went in the kitchen to cook something for me for dinner, when I came back I found Momichan crawling around the table quietly ! HAHA

She is really quick in her progresses, teeth, crawling, walking ... I guess if she continues like that she will be walking before she gets 9 months old ^^

Stands Up By Herself

This evening I was in the kitchen washing the bottles while Momichan was inside her Pogy in the living room. Suddenly I heard a tinkling, something like someone touching glass ... I thought it was strange because Momi couldn't reach any glass ... or she could ?
Well I went in the living room and found her this way ....

She had gotten up by herself helped bu the table and she was streching to reach the vase of the cookies !!! This is the second time theese days she sourprises me, she is really growing up so quickly WOW ^__________^

Granny's B'day

Today is my mum's birthday and same day Momichan is 7 months old ^^
As Sampei was free from work yesterday we had a special day yesterday with cake and special lunch.

We went to Ikea (inside was fresh and little Momo fall asleep in the meantime) to buy a little plant for mummy as present and a present for Momichan (a Barnslig tinkler shaped hippo) and some frozen salmon and sauces for a special dish, before coming to mum's house we retired the cake from the shop. Once home we cooked the fish and Sampei prepared the appetizers and we had finally lunch YUM YUM
This is the cake ^^




Here is mummy with little Momichan, (you can see even her two new little teeth) she was so happy she continuously laughed and tried to touch the cake with her small hands an we made her tast it also, she seemed to like but not so much ^___^




It was so hot that when I hugged Momichan to change diaper and prepare to give oyatsu I found her completely wet ! still now I do not really know if wet was sweat or pipi or both things anyway I had to make her a shower, change diaper and ask mum to lend me a clean tshirt because I didn't had with me a complete change for Momi so here she is with her grandpa tshirt (I also had to ask for a towel to put on the ovetto for the other one was completely wet)

In the foto, Momichan is holding her new Barnslig Hippo tinkler, guess she liked because is red and makes a strange sound ^^

CIAO CIAO ^^

Momichan is 7 months old ^^

Our little Momichan is now 7 months old ! YEEEEEEEE

New Bed For Momichan ^^

A friend is having a baby and we need to change bed for Momichan because she need one with the lateral we can take away so that she will have possibility to get into bed by herself so we are giving or Sniglar bed to our friend and take the new Hermelin for Momi, we still not have decided if red or blue, that will depend ^^

We also decided we will buy the curtains you can see in the second foto, name is Barnslig Djur, my mum wants all house to have white curtains, she says from outside all house must be elegant, I hate white, in my home all curtains have always be coloured so if I take this ones for our little room, she will se white from outside but we will have coloured one inside and we are all happy ^______^
We already bought the blankets because Momichan is sweating so much and I only had two set which were not sufficient, this ones are really soft, something like ... uhmm ... same soft you can have only if you have a blanket set you use so much and have washed so much, gives a nice feeling, seems cozy ^^

CIAO CIAO ^^

A Day AT The Store

Air is really hot theese days, about 36 degrees and we do not have air conditioned at home, Momichan is not feeling good with hot and she is terribly nervous poor child so yesterday we made a fresh bath ^^

Today instead we visited Ikea because she needed a new set for the bed (blankets and cushion)and mummy had given me some money to buy her a present for her 7th month so I took a Barnslig Lion and a Camel, Momichan got crazy for them, she was laughing and playing all the time.


















Inside the store there is fresh air and poor Momichan who was entirely red for hot soon smiled again as soon as she felt fresh. I had taken with us fresh camomilla to drink and her snacks so after having taken her things, we took a seat at the bar, I drank a free coffee and gave Momichan her fresh yogurt (I always go around with small thermo bag with ice inside and snack food for Momi) and she eated all, she loves strawberry more than bananas, apricot and apple ^^
She was really happy today, she was playing with tons of toys at the kids place, saw so many babies, had oyatsu, crawled on beds and kicked in the air in the space for beds and sofa, played with the mirrors at the bathroom exposition and much more.
When we got finally home she was tired, I made her a bath, changed diaper and put on a new clean pijama and gave her dinner, she played a little bit more then she felt asleep ^^
She's so cute when she's smiling now with her new two tiny teeth ^_______^

Hipp Hipp Hipp ...

Today we had not much time to prepare lunch and we needed to go Ikea to look at some items for Momi and the new kitchen we will have to buy for the new house (we already found a proper name for that, our house name will be "l'isola che non c'è" - the isle that does not exist - in memory of a song of E. Bennato from the album of Peter Pan), so after a short look at the things we needed we went to the restaurant to eat something, we had 2 discounted tickets to buy a portion of meatball half price so we both took 10 meatballs with boiled potatoes, lingonberry sauce and sour cream sauce and a water bottle.
For Momichan we bought two vases of Hipp food you see here under, she ated much of it and seems to like, it was the first time she was eating at a restaurant and she was really good child ^^

Taro Giro Saburo

In Japan Taro Giro and Saburo are very common names, translated into italian, they sound somethign like First, Second and Third ^^
I gave theese names to the three bears Momichan plays and sleeps with more or less in the order they arrived. Taro is the first one, we bought in Ikea before her birth (bear in the middle), Saburo is the biggest one (left bear) and Giro is the one with the pijama (left bear also bought in Ikea) ^^

Bed Lower Position !

This evening I had to put Momichan's bed into lower position because for first time she got up by herself holding at the bed. I was cleaning her bottles in the kitchen and she started to weep as sometime she does when she lost her comforter or else so I reached her and I found her this way ............

She had never done it before, I was astonished ! never got up in her bed, I have thought "if she does this next she will try is to try to get out of the bed to reach us but she will bump her head down falling out of the bed" I said to myself I would lower the mattress tomorrow but then I thought she eventually would make something stupid during the night or in the morning before we could get her so I started immediately to modify the bed to put her mattress the lower position and a fter 20 minutes work I had succeded ! WEW now her bed is safer even if not so comfy for me because to lift her up my back will ache much and I do not know how to give her bottle and kisses in this position (cannot reach her with my face to kiss her goodnight) but anyway I hope now she will stay comfy and safe.

Here is the bed after my hard work, now is safe ^^

Second Tooth !

This morning also the second tooth yesterday we saw still under the gum has come out so now little Momichan has two teeth in the center and she can do so nice smiles now HEHE
Here is the particular of the two new teeth (foto not easy to do)

First Tooth

WEEEEEEEE !!!
Momichan was a little nervous theese days, we thought about theeth but every time we looked her nothing was appearing until this morning when just by chanche I noticed a little white upper part of a tiny tooth !!!
YIPPE YA YEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!
Little Momochan now has her first tooth and this little masterpiece has a twin brother nearby who I guess, will appear in a few days.
GOSH, seems yesterday I was coming back home with little Momochan between my arms so little and quiet needing everything and now she has grown up so much already, guess this summer she will also start to walk a little ^^

A New House ...

We have decided for many reasons to change house and organize for the moving in september to go to mum's home ^^
For a while, house will be really small but maybe in the next future we will have the possibility to make it bigger including one of the two balconies but for now it will be a tiny 40 square meters home.
We will have a bathroom, a large room for kitchen and living room and a small bedroom that will be most Momichan's room :-)
It will be a new adventure, for the start we will sleep alltogather in the small bedroom but as space is not enough to put our bed, we will sleep on futon and Momi's little bed will stay near the window, it will be funny.
When we will have chance to make it larger we will sleep in the living room on the sofa and room will be mostly Momichan's, even if we will put our bed inside (she will use in the future when her little bed will become small) and a drawerchest and the cupboard for dress for eveybody.
Also the kitchen we will have to buy new, because we cannot take our old one with us but we will have fridge, oven, microwave, washing mashine and dishwasher ^^
I am so happy because our baby will have possibility to grow with a big garden in which to play, her granny will see her grow and we will help each other, also we all will be more relaxed than we are now, always with home charges and loan to pay ^^
Do not think it will be all a bed of roses, anyway we will be always in my mum's home even if divided by a door and with an independent entrance from outside, we will not be as independent as we are now, everything has a price but I think we will be all more relaxed and that is what is important for my baby.
I know little apartment will be cute and anyhow, jewels and precious things are small isn't it ?
Guess little by little this new home will be so cute even if we all will have to be very much organized and will not have any possibility to fill the house with tons of things because there isn't space enough and everytime we will but something new we will have to give away something old.
We will have parties for Sampei's, mommy, mine and Momichan's birthday all in the new home and hope for X'mas to have at least half kitchen with current water and gas.
We will make so many new decorations using polarvide blanket from Ikea and so many other gadgets for Momi ^^
One of the things will be our Xmas tree made of textile because there is not a corner where to put a real tree, another thing I want to do is a kind of clock for the seasons so that Momi will know everytime which season it is and what to expect ^^

Balancing on ovetto ...

Momochan has discovered her "ovetto", in the sense that now she knows she can move it up and down to balance so she does and laughs like a crazy ^^



In the afternoon we went to mum's house and I put Momochan on the grass to play, she tried to move on legs and arms like a cat or a dog but she's not yet able enough, anyway she moves fast rolling and pulling HIHIHI ^^

Momoko Name Day

Second name of our little child is Camilla, we thought that as a foreing name could not have a saint on calendar we could give her a second name to have a special day unce in a year so 31 may is Santa Camilla ^^
Happy first name day kiddie ^_^

Bento Box

A friend has given us a cute new bento box for Momichan, she didn't use for her kids so she gave to me.
It's a thermo box I am using so much everytime we are going at the park or to mum's house, to put yogurt inside with ices to keep fresh, Momi loves her box.
The set has also tools, a fork and a spoon with a rigid case so comfy for her now that she likes fruit yogurt and we always give her for snack around four o clock ^^
Here is the bento box ^^

CIAO ^^

Lunch

Today was really hot indeed so as I was full with many things to do we stayed at home.
Momichan was nervous again and did not eat her lunch in her bottle, I waited and tried afterwards but the same she did not want so I had the idea to try other way
Opened the bottle and tried with the spoon but it was too liquid so I had to throw away, opened the vase of her food and gave her veal with the spoon and .... she eated !!!! WOW
Her face was completely joy, she smiled happily and opended her mouth everytime to have another spoon, this is really new for us, astonishing, she wa so clever, she eated all, then I tried with the vase of carrots and also she eated a lot then she had her bottle with camomilla, good child ^___^
I will try tomorrow making tiny pasta and putting veal and carrots inside and give with the spoon, we will see if she eats.

Clouds

Momichan is very nervous theese days, we are terribly nervous and she feels it.
She doesn't even eat anymore with the spoon, she hardly drinks from the bottle so I again giving her just milk, milk she drinks ever ^^
This afternoon we went out taking a walk, I had to go some places and thought it would have been nice for her to go on the balance she likes so much, time is strange half clody, half sunny, windy and crazy.
The park was empty so Momichan had the balance all for her, she was happy a little, also she drank a little of camomilla and had a little snack (milk and bisquits).
She fall asleep coming back home, but instead of going inside house I stayed down in the garden going here and there around to make her take some fresh air, it was windy a little, not strong but fresh and she continued to sleep. When we got inside home I layed her down in her bed high enough to keep her fresh, window opended and also she went on sleeping.
She awakened around 22.00 PM, I gave her the rest of the snack and now she seems to be fallen asleep again.
I hope she will have some cute dreams ^^

Food With The Spoon !!!

Today I tried to give Momichan her food with the spoon because so it has to be and is time to try. I hav to say Momichan is really a fantastic child, she never weeps and she is curios about everything so she accepted the spoon and she eat her meal like a good kid, well guess she ate half of it anyway like first attempt is really not bad ^^
Menu was carrots, rice powder and bunny meat, and here she is (we also made a video) with her japanese Anpanman bib ^^

(ITALIANO)
Oggi ho provato a dare a Momi la sua pappa col cucchiaino invece che nel biberon e devo dire che è una bambina bravissima forse perchè curiosa ma ha accettato di buon grado il cucchiaino e apriva la bocca da sola per averne ancora, certo si è sbrodolata un pò ma era anche la mia prima pappa e non l'avevo fatta abbastanza densa ma lei è stata bravissima ^^
Ho capito però che è meglio se compriamo al ikea un cucchiaino più lungo e quei bavaglini in plastica morbida con tasca e maniche che si indossano sul vestitino perchè è impossibile tenerla pulita e si sporca dappertutto pure sulle maniche del abitino HAHA
Il suo menù oggi era: crema di riso, carote e carne di coniglio ^^