La Nutria

As spring is arrived, in the little rivers, ducks and nutrie are appearing.

During the sunny days duckies with their newborn are happily swimming, also nutrie ar coming out and swim happily all around, the ones we saw today are quite big and Momichan looks at them curiously, here it is one of them 40 cm big plus tail eating some breadcrumbs people are taking for theese animals every day.

Momichan loves to walk and go to see duckies, sometimes we also throw them some bread or pop corn (just popped not salted, we do it on purpose)

Momichan Rides A Bike

Momichan's daddy has bought a scooter to go to work, little Momi amuses so much in sitting on it and trying to drive. We will soon buy6 a special seat and a small helmet to carry Momichan around in case of need, guess she will get crazy even if we will drive veeeeeeery slow ^^

Sweet baby

Momichan has chosen her preferred pleouche, since a few days she doesn't want to sleep if she hasn't her grey cat with her and during the day she often plays with it. Those days she also likes to play with her doggy, it is so soft and she is so funny when she ugs it ^^

Flowers

In my mum's garden campanule are starting to make a million flowers, mum bought a vase and in a year time they spread around everwhere, now there is a soft violet carpetcoming down the garage wall ^^
Momichan loves the coloured flowers, everytime she runs o see them.

Baby Shopping

Finally it seems hot season is coming, trees are starting to produce leaves after the long cold season, first fowers are coming out between the grass everywhere and in the shops windows are full of new fresh cutie dresses for kids.
Also Momichan seems interested in the new items, she starts to like doing shopping and runs everywhere taking this and that item and putting inside the stroller. We decided to buy her theese dresses so she will be elegant but comfortable and she will be sooo pretty ^^

Some we bought in pink and some in green, pink is so romantic and Momichan is so "kawaii" :)

I thought it was not necessary but when I saw I fall in love with a hat and a little bag that transform Momichan into a small lady, could not absolutely leave in the shop, guess she will use to take her favourite pelouche but I wil have to hook the little bag at the strollerr or she will drop on the ground somewhere as always, with a pullover she will be perfect for Easter hoping it will be sunny and hot enough.

Momichan is so cute dressing jeans, she really seem a small adult he is so pretty so we bought a pair of jeans.
She has never had what we call "ballerine" little flat shoes so romantic and cute that you can wear practically with everything, is her first pair of cute shoes (she owns a pair of botts for the snow or rain, a pair of sneakers and a open leather shoe with strip strap closure)

 

a day in museum

This morning we had to go to Milan city to withdraw some documents for Momichan's daddy and we thought it could be a nice idea to take Momichan to the Natural Science Museum and show her the dynosaurs, minerals and animals and eventually eat some place.
So we got up, washed Momichan and dressed her, made breakfast alltogather, grabbed Momichan new car seat and got out.
Luckily is a sunny day so we are naturally happy and Momi is curious.
Normally when we have to move some place we have to ask my mum if she can take us around with her car but her car is absolutely uncomfortable and neither Momichan likes it because everytime we get inside she gets nervous but recently Momi's daddy can use a car his boss has lended him, a spacious car they normally use at work to carry the foods for the restaurants and the car they use when they go Sardinia for the summer season so now noone uses and we can have free.
Sitting here Momichan is comfortable and she is high enough to see outside, she looks everything and she is incredibly quiet.
Before getting out we saw on the internet Museum website that entrance isfree today after 14.00 so as is already time, we decide is better go lunch first.
A collegue of Momi's dad has opened a new japanese restaurant so we call him to see if there's place for three. We reach the restaurant, is very nice furnished and as food arrives also food is good, Momichan tastes everything, just a little bit, mostly she eats white rice and the ham I had taken from home (just in case).
Every food is nice displayed on the dish.
We finish eating, we pay, friend makes us a big discount and we go to the museum. Once arrived we discover there is a strike so we just can visit the lower floor ! Uffffff ! the nicer part is upstairs !!!
Well downstairs there are dynosaurs and Momichan seems happy to see, he shouts happily and she runs everywhere indicating all things she find strange or curious.

The lower floor is quick to visit so we are outside in 30 minutes. We deicide to have a walk in the center hoping that Momi fall asleep (normally if we are at home she sleeps from 2 to 4 PM but as we are out we cannot put her to bed but eventually she can sleep in the stroller.
She doesn't seem to be tired enough so we go to take a coffee and after to visit all the enter stores and shops.Time goes quickly and is already time to go home for dinner so we go to take the underground to reach the car parked just outside th city center.
Once again Momichan is happy and quiet to seat on her new seat in the car and once home she ats her dinner and we can put her to bed after a shower and a fresh pijama.She falls asleep in short time so we can relax a little in front of tv but we are exausted and we fall asleep either just to awake around 2 AM in the night and realize we are still on the sofa ! :)

First Pach

Momichan has fallen down from our bed, she was playing and simply falled down before I could reach her, like a fish jumping in the waterm. She has done nothing really, the carpet was soft and thik but has frightened a little so I thought to put her a patch like the ones she likes from Ikea, I choosed one big and pink with birds, immediately she stop crying and started to laugh.

Here she is with the pach, she didn't want to take it away all day long ^^

Momichan at home

Momichan loves looking the images of her book with the pages made of thick paper, se has one telling the story about the "Crocodile, what sound does he makes ?" she gets crazy about it, another with Trylly and the fayries and attached magic writing pad and anothe about Ducks which has in a corner a botton to push to hear duck sound, she also gets crazy about that one, push duck botton all day long :)
Here she is this morning, photographed by her daddy in our livingroom.

ciao ciao

Driving Car (Centenario Park)

Momichan loves driving small cars, here she is at Centenario Park inside a small car moving the weel, he does not understand still that she has to move feet to move the car but she enjoys sitting inside and mov the wheel :)

ciao ciao

Baby Phone

Having a small child a baby phone is the best thing.
Seems stupid but when Momichan is in he bed I have many things to do and even if our house is just 85 square meters at the moment, can happe I o not hear her, expecially if I am in the kitchen washing dishes so we decided it was best to buy this item I can easily carry everywhere and also when we visit granny and Momichan sleeps at the first floor, we can seat on the sofa downstairs and with this ittle radio I can hear every movement or cry she does.

Also going Ikea and having a baby, as we are changing house and have the possibility to organize it secure for a baby, we have the idea to buy other items hoping never to use but that in case can b very useful.

Blanket to use to suffocate a fire, gas relevator, estintore and other little things that will make us feel better "just in case" :)

balance (Centenario Park)

After her usual nap, Momichan and I were ready to go to Centenario Park.

This morning we had gone to supermarket to buy some food and as they had so many baby discounted items, I bought Momichan a new hat and new shoes (the ones she weares in the foto).

Centenario Park is just 30 meters near were will go living before june, (we already bought the windows YEEEE) there is a coffee shop where you can have coffee or cappuccino, ice cream or juices for kids, there is a bathroom with a special corner organized to change nappies to babies and a space in front of the shop with see-saws and slides, also you can find many little bicicles, trycicles and little baby cars that kids can use everytime they want free, there are also small ponds in which live fishes and ducks and in the park 16000 square meters big, there is also a zone for gimnastic training.

(foto here on the left you can see Momichan just under our home inthe garden park before leaving, she is having her fruit juice)

This time we went to the park with a friend, I had called her home to see if she was in, because I wanted to give her some of the dresses Momichan is not wearing anymore because they are small now, this friend lives just in front of the Park and she has had a baby just a month ago so we reached her and she got down with her crib and the baby and we walked togather inside the park.

There was still sun, we went to the coffee shop and Momichan saw the little car and trycyles and got inside happily, then we showed her the slides and she runned there Momichan sat inside the small car and got crazy about the wheel, smiled and shouted, she was the happiest baby ever :)

(fotos of the Centenario Park during the day)

During summer the park is full of people doing barbecues, playing soccer, sun tanning ... in this season there are the first kids going there with small bikes accompanied by parents or grandparents, someone seated in front of the coffee shop chatting and sometimes someone is running through the park with a walkman radio.

Momochan loves the balance, this is the second time this year she goes to the balance, last time was last summer and she was just 8 months. Today she was the happies kid ever again, it was sunny and quite warm even if int he park kids hav already gone away home and we were lonely but she was happy beause she had toys and balance all for her ^^

Soon got dark and humid so we had to go. It was difficult to convince Momichan to leave the park, she was enthusiast about the little car and she didn't want to leave, I had to reach her two times to take her away promising that if tomorrow she sleeps just after lunch and awakes befor 4.00 PM we can come again and we can find also other kids.

She seemed to be convinced and finally we got away. We went to my mum's house to say hello and to change nappy to Momichan and after we went definitely home to cook dinner. Recently Momichan not eating somuch but this evening I cooked her a special green pasta, animal shaped with cheese and ham, she seemed to like because she eated all ^^

I was sourprised but happy, she was very clever, after I prepared her milk bottle for the night and we went to bathroom to make shower and put a fresh nappy and pijama ^^

Soft Chair

Everytime Momichan gets home when we have been out, first thing she does is going in front of the tv cupboard and light the tv on, she plays withher toys and listen to the programs and if she ears some cute jingle she start to dance (I am carefoul to choose programs she can see without any problem and anyway she just looks tv for less than 10 minutes)

Problem was that if se gets interested in something, some spot for food for example, she goes too near the tv set so we decided it was best to buy her a place to seat all for her.
The result is she loves her new "place" and now whenever she want to look at some books or give a glance at tv she seats there, even when she drinks from her bottle ^^ WOW :)

French Markets

These three days (friday, saturday and sunday) in our little town there is a little french market, expositions of wines, crispy breads "baguettes", "pain au chocolat" and patiserie, soap, spices, jewels, napkins, cheese, salami and much more coming from Bretagne the side of France in the north west.
Walking through is exactly like being there, the tipical smell of the soaps (lime, lemon, pompelmuss, jasmin, lavender and thousand more) the spices and precious salt fill the air of the tipical odour you can feel going there; the dozn cheese from cow, goat and sheeps are wonderful to taste, apple cider and wines, goose patè and the crispy "baguettes" you can buy warm cooked uner your eyes, the tipical french bread are in the air making everyone run to buy some ^^

We bought some baguettes and pain au chocolat, (image on the left) some cheese, a pair of typical towels round and with the image of lavender and the word "bretagne" on it, we will use one fot the kitchen and one for Momochan, a napkin for the new house and a pair of soap.

Seems nothing particular but the soap you can buy in France and in theese markets have a particular smell that only french soap have, they sell many types, olive, flowers scent, fruits scent (lemon, lime, pompelmuss, ...), wherever you walk in France expecially at seaside places the smell you will ever remember are jut a few: a mix of lavender, honey and wax, soap, garlic and butter, and the crispy smell of baguettes. I have never found a place in which you can remember so particular smell, thinking of Italy or any of the european country, I cannot think at nothing particular.

Momichan walked around curious followed by daddy and me attracted by the coloured spices, curry, mixtures for spaghetti, strange salts (there was one pink with petals of tiny roses and another completely black with great cristals) peppers, mixtures of tea, the smell of the soaps and the coloured and smelly straw bags and hats, she ran and jumped here and there happy to taste fresh baguette and tiny pieces of cheese, we bought some brioche for breakfast and she tasted with us, lovely taste of butter and chocolate that melts in your mouth, we also bought a baguette and a piece of chese for mum and we went to her house to give her before coming home for lunch.

Strangely and luckily, Momichan despite all pieces of cheese and bread was hungry enough to eat her piece of roasted meat and brussel sprouts (I had put in the oven before going out this morning and programmed so that the oven cooked while we were out, oh what a wonderful invention !) 

After the meal I gave her her little milk bottle, dressed her with her sleep bag and put to bed, she fall asleep immediately.

Cute about this, is that this i the first year but the french sellers said they all will come back next year ! WEEEEEEE so we will have possibility to buy again french foods and some other cute things ^^
As they say then, " a bientot" :)

Japanese Baby Food

I have always been curious about what japanese babies eat during weaning and so I have made some research on the web. We found theese images, I wonder if in case I would cook exactly the same food Momichan would eat. If you want to see other foods just click on this site ^^

Recently Momichan is not eating so much and everytime is lunch o dinner time is an agony, luckily she still has her nap after lunch time from 2.00 until 4.00 PM sometimes, normally she just sleeps one hour.

Theese foods seems deliciuos and complete, Momichan does not eat veggies at the moment and I do not know what to invent to make her eat something good and healthy, she just loves plain hot dogs and ham burgers, no pasta but just white rice sometimes and of course her rice crackers by Hipp.

ciao ciao

The Crocodile

A few days ago arrived a book for Momichan with a sourprise: a inflatable gummy crocodile ! You know, the ones that you blow air inside and use at the sea side between the waves, well Momichan uses it in the bathtub. She amuses herself so much and after she goes to bed and sleeps so well, guess she dreams about the croco and the bathtub, sometimes she laughs ^^

Sunglasses

Momichan now own a pair of sunglasses.

A pair of weeks ago we were at Chicco Store and there were discounts so thinking of a future travel this summer to the sea side we thought it was best for Momichan to have a pair of sun glasses so that she can save her little eyes from the sun rays and here she is today wearing glasses at home for the first time. She was funny, she looked at herself into the mirror and laughed.

Unfortunately when we gout of house sun has gone away so we could not use the glasses but Momichan did not seem to care about.

We went to granny and Momi walked everywhere, she amuses walking up the stairs, guess as soon as she will live there she will get crazy about as she will haveto do every day two times or more a day.

Pogy

Since she was 7 months old Momichan I have stopped using the Pogy crib because she loves it but it is impossible to keep her inside as she loves to roll out instantly. This is the reason why I did not use it anymore, everytime I wanted to put Momi to bed she started to laugh and play so I had to put away and use her normal bed also for the after lunch nap.

This days I got the Pogy out because when I put Momi to bed, (she has some pelouches to play inside her bed before falling asleep), she has taken the abitude of throwing them all out on the pavement and tis get me to nerves also I have cnstantly to collect them to put in the bed again searching them for all the room so I use the Pogy for her toys, I put it in the middle of her and my bed so that if she wants, she can throw toys inside and now we do not have problems anymore, she loves it and throws toys only inside it but, this is magic, since I use the Pogyfor this, she has nearly stopped to throw things outside the bed ! WOW !
During the day the Pogy stays near the closet and recently she loves to get inside and play with her toys, she is so funny.

ciao ciao

Countdown ...

Finally countdown has started to begin the works for the new house and we have started to search the best prices for electricians, windows, furniture and others. We have to check when actually works can start and if we have all permissions, then we will have to coordinate the various technicians and hope they can do the job in short time.

The idea is to trasform the upper part of mum's house in a small apartment enlarging it including one of the two existing balconies transforming it from 35 to 45 square meters. The upper part now is composed by a small bathroom and two bedrooms my sista and I used when we ere living with parents.

House will be so small but lovely and precious like a jewel, we will have to buy from Ikea bathroom furniture, the kitchen, a cupboard for shoes and night table for the sleeping room. All pavements will be covered by moquette so that I will not have to wash every day and will spare a lot of time, there will be a sleeping room we will use for us and Momichan and after for Momichan alone when she will be bigger, a bathroom and a living room/kitchen/bedroom thanks to our sleeping sofa.

We have already contacted some friends who have made a project and have given us some prices and best of all, have accept to be paid long term in small rates, now we just have to wait until first week of march hoping works can start immediately, incase with a little bit of luck we will have possibilityto move with our old furiniture before middle april ... just cross fingers .... just cross fingers ....

Carnevale

In Italy soon will be Carnival but already kids are going around with their costumes of various carachters.

We have two costumes for Momichan, one of them, Pikachu, has been sent from granny from Japan.

Here is Momichan with the Lion King one.

Momichan is happy when she can dress like Lion King or Pikachu, so happy that she never want to take the costume away HAHA especially Pikachu.

Theese days here s snowing and is really cold but Momichan amuses so much in taking a walk and observing the snow not much convinced about what it is and the use she can do, she loves catching the flakes falling and every night befor sleeping she wants to look outside the window to see if other snow is coming.

 またね！