Carnevale 2010

It's that time of year again! time for chiacchere and confetti! last year (minus the self inflicted silly string eye shooting incident) we had such a good time at Brugherio's Carnevale parade, we got a little group together to go again.

Luna (the strawberry), Yara (the witch), Giorgia (the princess),
Sophia (the fairy) and Pietro (spiderman)

Before the parade begins, the kids throw confetti and blow streamers at each other.

Sophia gives it a go!

Grandma tries too!

What? No more streamers? Nothing wrong with recycling!

Watching the parade.

After we went to mc donalds and then the kids had a bath because they were DIRTY!
I guess you can tell the amount of fun the kids had by
the amount of dirt accumulated in just a few hours!

Carnevale

Last year we went to celebrate at an oratory with maria amali and emanuele. this year we went to a parade in brugherio with pietrowilhelm. (poor franci is sick with the flu, so she stayed home with alessandro). To celebrate, the kids...

bomb each other with confetti...

and even more confetti (they throw it at kids they don't even know)...blow these streamer rings at each other...
...shoot silly string at each other...
(i didnt get a picture, but... i turned my head for a second and sophia shot herself in the eye with the stuff and we had to hunt down a waterfountain to wash it out! it even got in her nose!)

...and chase each other around.

the kids had a great time! it took me forever to make the stupid dress and of course i havent taken a picture of her in it yet. i hope i get to snap one before the dress rips.

just for fun...

the sophia witch project

i forgot the confetti

i forgot the best part about carnivale at home on saturday...the confetti. today when we went to go and pick up sophia we opened up the bag and thru some around. there is loads of the stuff everywhere (not just from us) lets hope it doesnt rain soon otherwise it doesnt have time to blow away and decompose, it just gets soggy!

and this is sophia's 'snap snap' game with her daddy on the walk home from school.

Carnivale

Pri and Paolo invited us to celebrate Carnivale with them and Maria Amali and Emanuele at their oratory near their house. Maria Amali went dressed as a princess, in an intricate costume made by Pri and Sophia as a cowgirl, in a vest and stick horse that i had made for her. At least Maria Amali showed off her costume a bit (sophia didnt want anything)...both girls cried and stayed in mommy's arms for most of the time. But it was neat to see how it was all celebrated-was the first time for both Sophia and me. It was like an Obon Festival meets Halloween. Games, parades, lots of activities held at church but in the cold and in costume. Here the kids dress up, throw lots and lots of confetti and the older kids have shaving cream fights. Maybe next year the kids will be able to enjoy the festival a little more, this year they were a bit too young.



Pri and Ma

Pia and Ma, the 10 seconds that they were both down on the ground.

MA's cousin

The girl's at home having a better time than at the party...

In the end we turned around and went back to Pri and Paolo's to play. The girls had so much fun playing together. I was a little worried that Sophia was going to be grumpy again because last night she went to bed after midnight and she didnt take a nap today. But in the end of the day it all worked out and she ended up passing out on Max's lap during dinner. Which again was excellent! How am I ever going to lose weight???? Paolo made 5 pizza's with loads of yummy things - sausage, tuna and mushroom, stewed onions and mushroom and sausage -i cant remember them all. (and the guy has that disease where everything needs to be in perfect order and so the pizza's were not just delicious, but picture perfect-forgot to take a picture tho). plus dessert and grappa after. Paolo also does this great grappa mixed with honey that is soooo good. i just might have to become an alcoholic-well more of an alcolholic.