Little Italy 24

[BananaGio]

Ciao tutte!

Sorry about the colds I love aerosol..... Franca glad you are feeling a bit better fingers crossed it stays that way !
Cooler here and dh can't work out how to change the caldaia from estate to inverno ...hee hee.As its also a bit damp so we wanted to just put it on low to dry it out.
MInerva it it a PFB so they are being over the top about it all ..POor child for teh futuro.
We were told its a letter but not if you return on day 6...Can't see what a days difference makes!
Well done for getting shoes hope they last!

So it's not me that is at PFBness (aforementioned kid is probably quite ahead on many things, but it's a nightmare as he will not keep still for more than 2 seconds). And my cousin should stop being a martyr and put her foot down on a few more things.

Cold is getting better and DD restless - she wanted to go to asilo today, but as she had a bit of a fever last night we are keeping her off today too.

Can I do a bit of bragging... Sole24 ore had a very very short press release about the project I just finished... My only claim to fame...

Well done Minerva

Also, the fact that he is quite ahead of other 2 yrs old, doesn't mean he won't benefit from nursery... where mostly you learn how to relate to anyone without the constant monitoring of your parents!

Well done Minerva congratulations thats great .......

DH took MIl to get minirosas birthday present today. I said a doll with extras like ciccobello but not electronic in any way !! SO I get a text saying all of the ciccobellos cry .. I reply NO WAY and then no again as even if you take the batteries out the things still manage to cry to say mamma or something. ANyway I get a text saying she really wants to buy it ... I reply that if it is bought it will go straight to charity. Is it really impossible to buy a doll that doesn't do anything electronic????? I did ask MIl to get minirosa some bath toys but she looked rather blank at me !!!!!!!
I have yet to hear what she did buy!

Rosa, dd received a cicciobello bua a few christmases ago that never got sick she was deeply upset.
I don't mind crying dolls, but I have to admit that I prefer Corolle to Cicciobello... and they are mute!!!

another fan of aerosol here.
Congrats on your report Minerva . Rosa what did MIL get, have you found out? DS's birthday yesterday. Kept coming and hugging me and saying he was having such a lovely day bless him. If only they could stay like this... I had a morning off work and went to Ikea with a mate to get some more Billys so I too had a lovely day . And ate loads of cake.

Happy Birthday little Banana- he looked so happy on the pics ! I asked Dh to get a Billy libereia and he said that he couldn't fit it in the car as its 2m long .... Cavolo now if I had gone I would have just shoved it in....Then he would have had to get it from Tronchetto....
Ok so MIL has got ( I just rolled my eyes in complete and utter disbelief)A effin Cicciobello Tattoo - apparently you get these pens and you can draw on the tuttine of this doll. Of all the stupid . This is for minirosa who is testardo and who will have no problem in thinking she can then draw on her clothes or use any pens whatsoever on whatever. ( Note minirosa is not G&T she scribbles beautifully )The thing is dh was there as well.....Apparently this one cries as well . I wished he had paid then I could go and exchange it. Thing is she will let her open it and make her take it out of the box there and then so I won't be able to exchange it. ALl I wanted was a doll which had say a bottle, maybe a change of clothes a bowl and spoon kind of thing. Not one that she could draw on and on the floor, walls, curtains etc. AM I being OTT or is it plain stupid? Now if this doll had been given to DD1 age 5 who is calmo etc then possibly I could understand but to a 3 ....Bah ... I saw a great nenucco doll which had a few things with her but obviously its not sold in Toys center!

Rosa, I totally, fully and wholehartedly understand where you are coming from with dolls (and with battery powered toys in general). Next time I would recommend Trudi dolls (which you should find in the Toys center!): DD has the "Jasmine" one and it's beautifully made but "funky" enough, no batteries but plenty of decent accessories (sporty clothes, nice but not overly pretty outfits, stroller, baby bath etc)). I personally hate dolls and have done since infancy, but that one I can live with. Cicciobello is creepy.

By the way, Fastweb is really struggling with her DS at school - on the thread below (sounds like she found a particularly awful maths teacher)... Has anyone got any tips (her DS is older, I think in medie so I am really out of that...)

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/education/1315053-Maths-teachers-what-is-this-called

Happy 5th birthday Gio's adorable ds!

Oh dear rosa, that doll sounds really silly! Next time tell her to get a Corolle, you won't regret it.

I'll have a look at fastweb's thread. I thought she was HE, or am I mixing posters up?

What a bizarre thread.

I am hoping dd will be good at maths as I am not and I have no idea what they are going on about...
I have just seen how much that doll costs and I am in shock. We have a corrolle and grandma made some clothes for it as I was not spending more on dolls clothes than I do on the dds...... I just wanted a slightly bigger one for her to play with .... I wish I had not even bothered now as A doll that costs more than a pair of shoes for a 3 yr old is stupid....Rant over until her birthday arrives and I see it.... ( Thank heavens sensible grandma has purchased 2 books that I know she will love and a counting game from one of those wonderful independent toy shops).....

I totally remember those fractions etc, they were a nightmare when I was at medie! I am not good at maths, but luckily dh is good and I am keeping my fingers firmly crossed that the dc end up with a good math teacher!

My mil also makes clothes for dd's corolle dolls! And for the Barbies.

I was only good at maths when I had a good teacher (so not a natural, unlike DH who is a science/maths boffin). So I can only symphatise in the case of the awful teacher: dictation in maths? Are we joking?

Anyway - I had no clue you could HE in Italy... I was under the impression you had to be registered somewhere for scuola dell'obbligo...

Oh my, I hope dd stays good at maths, I already have palpitations just thinking about it. I do words, me, not numbers.

We have a baby thingy pee pee po po. Dd insisted on it, it was bought, it po'd once, she was icked out, and it's sat gathering dust ever since.

Happy Birthday Mini-Gio!

The pooing pee doll is still in the cupboard nappies never used....Was given to dd1 when she started potty training ...I don't need to say by whom now do I ?
I am doing Dh accounts and I just want to slide under the desk and let it all be done on its own...... Have made 2 tisane and eaten a pket of pavesini.....arrggghhhh

Oh and I was crap at maths unless the teacher managed to explain the logic behind it all ... So for the shopping and budgeting ( when I can be bothered I am brill) but for the more non logical ( have never used ) kind of things I am terrible....( I was kicked out of the o level section and made to do the GSCE )

I thought the dictation of maths was for the history of maths... if I understood well. Never did history of maths alle medie.

And at Liceo I passed all my maths tests because I used to study with my class mates who actually explained to me the things I didn't get otherwise...

I am crap at logic with numbers/figures etc.

But I am good at logic with words, grammar and I was very good at Latin (less so at ancient greek). This is as far as my logic goes!

Boh not sure about HE. I know of some anarchists who do it... (long sotry)

Anarchists? Nella milano da bere? Surely not...

Yes, I do hope DD is good at maths (it makes life easier, opens a few more doors at work...) and.... art. I am totally useless at art and I do not want to ever have to help with these assignments.

Oh yes, anarchists nella milano da bere. There aren't many, but quite few. Occasionally some anarchists organise attentati too...here for instance...

Oh my dd loves to express herself via paintings and drawings, but after having spent the years at materna where they get really creative etc, at primary they don't do much. Ds year (he is in 4) they do a weekly laboratorio where they do all sorts of project, but it has been cut for the younger ones thanks to the gelmini's reform

Apologies for my terrible english, but I am rushing around trying to make cena for my db and his wife

Just chuckling at your Cicciobello trauma, Rosa... you're lucky DD wasn't given one at 7 months old like mine was last Christmas - it was bigger than her! Totally inappropriate for a young baby imo. We had to sit down surrounded by admiring relatives and be filmed by DP's manic aunt while DD ripped the paper off it with my help. At one point the manic aunt stepped in and started ripping it off, "dai, su"! because I was being too slow and ruining the pace of the video. Had to bite my tongue that time...
I've always refused to put batteries in the thing, so DD doesn't know that it could cry... she was given a Chicco "Kikla" doll at the same time and as it's slightly smaller she preferred that anyway. Now she's kind of lost interest in both of them for now.

I've tried tactfully saying "no more battery toys please" but everything that side of the family gives us is plastic and has batteries. They probably think I'm really backwards with my educational wooden toys...

Reading about maths homework, I'm dreading it too as I somehow managed to make it through school without ever learning long division. Fractions? Aaargh... my DP is even worse and can't manage simple mental arithmetic. But when it comes to languages and grammar we'll be fine!

Minerva -congrats on the article, what field do you work in, or can't you say?

Hello Spaghettina!
Oh battery toys can be a pain, I agree. I remember that when he was about 1 ds was given: "Sono il bruco Arturo e dico le parole...: gatto! topo! etc". Evil thing.
Plus, I am not keen on toys that get so didactical !!!

Franca, I like useless toys too! Lego is as educational as it gets in minerva's house. Am totally out of ideas for Xmas though, as that is the only time of the year when DD gets toys from us... The house seem so full already and frankly DD's obsessions change from month to month, so there is nothing she "wants" so to speak (although I suspect that will not last for long...).

Spaghettina, thanks. I am a project manager for a biotech company. Which is really not massively exciting, comparing to the many cool occupations you hear about on Mumsnet.

Actually last night I was talking to DH re: the various maths threads that are around at the moment, and we got into a conversation about the mathematics behind his job. It was actually rather fascinating - apparently he applies particle physics concepts and fractals theory to create computer models that mimick "random events" behind financial projections. I thought that was rather cool (when people ask him what he does, he simply says "I work in insurance"... I told him he is probably underselling himself a bit [hgrin] )