End of the Christmas Break

...and back to school for Pia. We also went to visit her Scuola Materna (which is like the next level of school from ages 3-5) that's part of her school. OMG it is such a sad little area and the teachers are a bit old - not just in age but in action. They arent lively and young at heart, they are all grandma-ish. It's the neighborhood school and the school thats closest so her friends will be there. But i think we are gonna check out at least one more school to see what it's like. It's so hard to send Pia to Boccaccio (our school) after seeing what a nice school Gingerbread was (where chan, ian and lucas went/go). I know i shouldnt compare. It makes me want to go back to the States for Pia's sake!! Maybe it wont be so bad, i mean it's just preschool, so maybe it wont be so bad, but you know i really want her to get off to a good start.
It's still dark early and cold and damp and foggy so Max went to go get Pia and they fingerpainted with a new set of paints that ML and F gave to her for xmas.

A Walk

Well the snow has melted and the sun is breaking through so we went for a little walk into 'downtown Co Mo' today. We went to the cute litte cafe in town and had some Prosecco and munchies.
The picture is of the sad fountain that's in Dog Poop Park. We had to jump and dodge a dead pigeon and poops camouflaged by dead leaves and muddy snow, it was drama just to snap the picture.

Snow

It's starting to dump snow. This is the view from the kitchen and that's Max's Vespa that's starting to get covered.

Digital Camera's Will Be Our Downfall

Martina gave Sophia a Play-dough set (here its called dido - pronounced like dee-doe not like the singer, which rhymes with fido) for Christmas. We broke out with that today too! Sophia watched so much TV between me trying to keep up on the jewelry making and either she or I being sick all Dec, I am more than happy that she does ANYTHING aside sit in front of the boob-tube! (altho i must say that her spanish has improved loads- she says empujen, abajo, arriba, lo hicimos and can count to 10!) Anyways we all had a lot of fun with it, perhaps max and i had more fun than our daughter!

Escaped Pyscho Killer

Actually this one isnt much different from real life.

Nor is this one if forget to wax!

Why pay all that money for bee-stung lips, just break out with the play dough!

yeah, again not much diff from reality...

And you know we would not be documenting this kind of stuff if we didnt have a digital camera. I used to be so chinsey with the film sometimes i'd have a roll in my camera for years, now look at us!

Lunch time

Zia Paola and Zio Ale gave Pia a kitchen. So today we made lunch together.

And then Pia discovered another good use for the kitchen...


...peek-a-boo!

Safari Stamps

Holber and Gweta gave Pia some stamps with a safari theme.
I think Pia looks a lot like AuntieChell, its the pouty mouth and poofy hair!


I ended up doing all the stamping and having all the fun, and she just did a puppet show with the caps.

Happy Due Mille (cag)Otto

...as Oliver and Greta rightly put it.

We skipped out on the NYE party due to the fact that my stomach started hating it in the middle of the night after the Thai dinner...I got a stomach virus AGAIN! What count am i at, three for Dec? good grief! it wasnt food poisoning if thats what you are thinking, since im in only one that got sick. also i had a nasty fever and the chills so that confirms it. AND now im all freaked out because you know that old tradition, house clean on NYD house clean means all year round/what ever happens on new years eve is basis of what will happen in the up coming year and all that jazz...well lessee now... house a disaster, spent the night on toilet, ugh what a year to look forward to! well on the bright side at least this is the first time ive followed my new years resolution to lose weight! not exactly what i had in mind, but i'll take it anyways!