tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71176034085155457032024-03-13T06:17:52.806+05:30Our Travelling ZooDue fratellini + una sorellina + vari altri bipediEleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.comBlogger473125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-86224337249611033702017-06-28T09:44:00.001+05:302017-06-28T09:48:33.800+05:30Ready to fly to Norway on a rainy early morning. <div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtCz0ECk8b8OH2gxrJjyZCKA6loF-E9TlKb5mRMwrUjzayfskHanPMTEv8O0wLTvXGzbrCF7r33OJnRpCqJdOO9bY6io1BSNeoMumXGswwv6NPtoifWbD2RRwzaCeGxbPKshdvvvz1uVk/s640/blogger-image--384592697.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtCz0ECk8b8OH2gxrJjyZCKA6loF-E9TlKb5mRMwrUjzayfskHanPMTEv8O0wLTvXGzbrCF7r33OJnRpCqJdOO9bY6io1BSNeoMumXGswwv6NPtoifWbD2RRwzaCeGxbPKshdvvvz1uVk/s640/blogger-image--384592697.jpg"></a></div></div>Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-12749778057709182352017-06-09T17:24:00.001+05:302017-06-09T17:24:21.878+05:30Festa della Repubblica al Monte dei Cappuccini<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last week we decided to make use of a Friday at home with the kids, courtesy of an Italian national holiday, to tear the kids away from their ipads for a couple of hours and take them on a long uphill hike to the top a small hill from which one can get a panoramic view of the city - and on a good day, a great view of the Alps too, but this was not that kind of day. The hike is not that long really (Google tells me it is a 700m walk from the nearest bus stop) but I told the kids it would be, in order to limit the amount of complaints I would receive later. <br />
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I think that the most tiring part of the trip was waiting for buses on a day with reduced service, but the uphill walk still drew the most vocal moans. Fortunately it wasn't sunny and in fact it rained a bit on our way up, which I took as a good thing, but not everyone agreed.<br />
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On a good note, the older brothers did try to encourage their sister. I overheard them telling a story of how we were all on a mission to defeat the Wizard of Steepness on top of the hill. <br />
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Here you can see the happy hikers admiring the view before tackling the last few meters of our ascent.<br />
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And this is where the Wizard of Steepness lives, apparently.<br />
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A disappointing panoramic view I tried to capture with my phone,<br />
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and here are the victorious heros celebrating the downfall of the Wizard.<br />
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We spent a short time looking at view and keeping the kids alive and all in one piece, <br />
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to end our walk at the Church of the Great Mother of God (where the kids tried to crash someone's wedding).<br />
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This is where we should have declared victory and just gone home, but hubris led us to want to top it all off with ice cream from Fiorio. <br />
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There was seriously good mango ice cream, according to one of our testers,<br />
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After that we had to spend about an hour waiting around the bus stop. It turned out that a march in the center of the city had unexpectedly disrupted the bus routes. The pictures below might deceive you into thinking that the kids waited stoically for the bus without causing trouble, but that is most definitely not what they did.<br />
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Still, the long wait allowed me to take a few more pictures, and I am especially happy with this series of snaps of Lila sitting on her special pyramid (this is how I sold it to her when she refused to sit on an uncomfortable stone after I was too tired to keep carrying her).<br />
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Fette biscottate e marmellata: la nuova colazione preferita di Rohan!<br />
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Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-48157896323061542412017-05-30T18:31:00.001+05:302017-05-30T18:31:29.212+05:30We Are (Almost) Back!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello, my loyal readers! (Si`, mamma, mi riferisco proprio a te.)<br />
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I have often thought that I would like to revive the blog, but then I never did, mostly because whenever I think about all the stuff that I haven't talked about, and the pictures that I still would like to share, but that require a backstory that I have not written, my system crashes. I like to read convoluted stories, sometimes, but I like to write things in the right order - or else, it seems, I just don't write at all. <br />
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I also worry about oversharing, now that my children are older, but I will talk about this some other time. I will say that my policy has always been to not write anything that I wouldn't want my children to read at some point, so that is something I will still try to do.<br />
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What tipped the balance toward giving the blog another try, in the last few weeks, was a combination of small events: some friends visited us here in Torino and they kept a travel journal on facebook, which made me instantly jealous of the memories that they will be able to preserve (I would, however, not want to share my family memories on Facebook, but that just reflect something about the composition of my particular group of Facebook friends); in the same days, I tried to take advantage of a discount to print out Le Avventure Di Due Fratellini, and in the process I had to go through some of the posts that I wrote so long ago, which resulted in a feeling of frustration when my English didn't flow so smoothly, but also made me grateful that I did take the time to record some quite hectic but very precious times in our lives; and last, Rajiv just turned ten years old (yikes!), so obviously time moves much faster when you don't write stuff down.<br />
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In summary, I am now convinced that I must urgently start blogging again, except that I can't, because I just received communication (after more than a month of waiting) that Rajiv's exam to certify his passage from primary school to middle school, will actually take place, and from the email that I received the whole things sounds a bit scarier than I had envisioned it. So now I need to freak out, make plans, practice exam etiquette with Rajiv, prepare some kind of portfolio to show the committee, write a professional-looking fifth grade curriculum, and more things that I just wrote down in my freshly-developed Exam Master Plan.<br />
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The long stories I was planning to save for posterity will have to wait, but I might still post a few photos to get back into the habit, so stay tuned-ish.. </div>
Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-63484787855671196452015-11-05T11:54:00.000+05:302015-11-05T11:54:14.088+05:30An improvised Harry Potter costume for Halloween<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Let me please stress *improvised* :)</div>
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Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-37622294760170821962014-09-17T18:10:00.001+05:302014-09-17T18:10:21.577+05:30A family tradition?Last Sunday: Lila, two years old, wearing mamma's shoes (and holding mamma's dirty socks in her hands...) and ready to go!<div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOGAGyhWIvpsVLAL1cNPp_ZvnzgvuCpIfJTfnO5VbJ_kalnx88gKWZLOies-ytdFLbVWPNIHXt__tz-3MeyEMuIdRfDt98NU0YH4Dv-hD8HbHmZwi3eGL7LDt30uGoF2s_4aC7tUOt3bw/s640/blogger-image--1425011507.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOGAGyhWIvpsVLAL1cNPp_ZvnzgvuCpIfJTfnO5VbJ_kalnx88gKWZLOies-ytdFLbVWPNIHXt__tz-3MeyEMuIdRfDt98NU0YH4Dv-hD8HbHmZwi3eGL7LDt30uGoF2s_4aC7tUOt3bw/s640/blogger-image--1425011507.jpg"></a></div></div>Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-51796036394225723982014-08-13T23:11:00.000+05:302014-08-13T23:11:52.569+05:30Update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">We are back in India. All sort of chickenpox-related troubles have been sweeping through this house but we are all fine now. We are battling toddler constipation with potty books and we spend most of the remaining time talking with the boys about Angry Birds and the Star Wars movies that they have never seen (and won't see any time soon). Maybe I will manage to post some more photos of our trip to Italy at some point. <br />
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Let me just say that if three kids have to be simultaneously sick with some kind of stomach bug, you definitely want it to be when the washing machine just broke down and the flush is not working in any of the toilets in the house. You also want all the available grown-ups to be suffering from various ailments of their own. Good times...</p><div style="text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;" id="blogsy_footer"><a href="http://blogsyapp.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://blogsyapp.com/images/blogsy_footer_icon.png" alt="Posted with Blogsy" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;" width="20" height="20" />Posted with Blogsy</a></div>Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-28637215465820550892013-12-26T11:53:00.000+05:302013-12-26T11:53:49.106+05:30Merry Christmas! Buon Natale!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB00l2jsKEQ9z3T7xAiskakgK7EtGRmzR-go2_y_fP0-MJ7SM7WjmcMZM22w-MDrxbeVYDvH2Prh0psnA1ghGR__vyYQOtLWj4wMMG61eLNZPXBiKdwjFiFPOuU8rr5cGU7VBChhl6zfA/s1600/calendar1.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB00l2jsKEQ9z3T7xAiskakgK7EtGRmzR-go2_y_fP0-MJ7SM7WjmcMZM22w-MDrxbeVYDvH2Prh0psnA1ghGR__vyYQOtLWj4wMMG61eLNZPXBiKdwjFiFPOuU8rr5cGU7VBChhl6zfA/s400/calendar1.jpg" /></a><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div>Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-67059399711453276242013-12-24T12:09:00.002+05:302013-12-24T12:09:55.313+05:30Christmas is...... running out of secret hiding places and having to move your towels out of their shelf.<br />
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And this is obviously a very dangerous picture to have around right now, so please don't tell :)Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-19844295524637773162013-12-21T11:49:00.000+05:302013-12-21T11:49:55.045+05:30Playtime outside<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
Let me start with a few action shots.<br />
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In the next photo, the tall building on the back is Home.<br />
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And here are the two scooting wonders, up close.<br />
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Next, a couple of rare instances of mamma being in the photo too. (Thanks, S, this time you did a good job!)<br />
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The rest is Lila trying to keep up with her brothers - and she does that quite well.<br />
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For those who called us to inquire about the state of health of the poor little girl, let me just show you a picture of the patient, taken on one of the first days of her illness. <br />
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</div>Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-51004504992340049312013-12-07T13:11:00.000+05:302013-12-07T13:11:36.807+05:30Breaking (potty) news<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I haven't posted in a long time, but the perfect opportunity to come back to come back to it presented itself.<br />
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A special announcement:<br />
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And, just to quiet any doubts right away, it wasn't me.</div>
Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-66773218330417935432013-09-09T11:49:00.000+05:302013-09-09T11:49:29.821+05:30Happy Ganesh Day!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-34731384475392493132013-09-04T22:44:00.000+05:302013-09-04T22:44:18.562+05:30Bananas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today I was chased by a monkey. After lunch, I was leaving the canteen building at the institute with S and the boys and I was carrying a couple of bananas to keep as afternoon snacks. S was a few steps ahead and called me to show a few monkeys coming toward us. Usually we are quite excited to see monkeys, but this time one of them moved quickly in my direction and caught me completely by surprise. It didn't even occur to me, at first, that it might be after my snack. I took a couple of steps back and then just turned around and ran back to the lunch area. When I looked back I saw that the monkey had stopped, but it charged again soon after. I ran again and tossed the bananas on top of a table, were the monkey collected them easily before jumping away.<br />
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The monkey was about half my size, but it looked quite strong and scary right then. No more bananas out in the open! At least the kids were not scared, in fact quite the opposite. We had to have a little chat to explain that no, it is not ok if a monkey "just wants to jump on you, mamma" (Rajiv's words). :)</div>
Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-66581478378886854272013-08-28T18:26:00.000+05:302013-08-28T18:26:33.698+05:30Rohan, the poet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A few days ago:<br />
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Rohan - "The days die.."<br />
Mamma - "Uh?"<br />
Rohan - "The days pass, and they die."<br />
Mamma (a little anxious) - "Well, I guess you could say that.. Does it make you sad?"<br />
Rohan - "No."<br />
Mamma - "???"<br />
Rohan - "Only the other days are sad, those that haven't passed, because their friends are gone."<br />
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Another time:<br />
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Rohan - "Mamma, you are the yolk of the egg!"<br />
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This is clearly a metaphor, which makes me proud. Whether it is also a compliment, I am still pondering.<br />
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Yet another time, when he was smaller:<br />
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Rohan is crying. We try to wipe his face. He says, angry: "Don't take my tears away! I need them!" </div>
Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-61908361175077604012013-08-17T12:56:00.000+05:302013-08-17T12:56:10.716+05:30A week ago in Ooty<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A few photos from our trip to Ooty:<br />
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Change of clothes! (Way overdue: the previous shirt had been worn for about 48 hours, thanks to our usual brilliant planning.)<br />
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But Rohan doesn't fear the cold and shows his abs instead.<br />
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A few wrestling hugs follow. I took lots of photos, mostly because I can't resist stripey sweaters - could you tell?<br />
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And more stripes. The little sister is not too happy to be excluded from the fun, it seems.<br />
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Next are a shot of the view from Casa Gialla,<br />
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and papa' with achamma on the steps :)<br />
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The last photos were taken early morning, after our first successful overnight stay at Casa Gialla. <br />
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I think it is a lovely place, although you probably cannot tell from my rushed snapshots. If only we could have reliable power and giant spiders out-of/far-from the house, then it would be perfect. </div>
Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-35250299209252981872013-08-16T12:31:00.001+05:302013-08-16T12:34:41.941+05:30Homeschooling in pictures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In case you are wondering what our homeschooling looks like, here it is:<br />
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This would be on a good day. I don't think I want to show what it looks like on a bad one.. :)<br />
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</div>Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-86739281190988877632013-08-15T16:45:00.001+05:302013-08-15T16:45:30.937+05:30The Money Rat Was Here<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Rajiv has lost his first tooth yesterday. I think mom and dad are even more excited than he is - at least I am, for sure. The first tooth! That makes him almost a grown up, right? Well, Rajiv would be quick to agree on this :)<br />
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It is one of the bottom front teeth, not so easy to show in a photo. We tried a couple of poses, yesterday night:<br />
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and again today morning:<br />
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but I'm afraid we will have to wait for one of the upper teeth to go if we want the classic toothless shot.<br />
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Rajiv and Rohan have heard of the Tooth Fairy from American books and movies, but I grew up with the "Little Mouse of the Teeth" (literally translated from the Italian "Topino dei Denti") and I told them about this a few days ago, when Rajiv's tooth started to wiggle. It might sound ridiculous, but I don't feel good lying to them about this sort of things, so I just told them that this was a story my aunt and grandmother told me, never saying it was a true story. The thing is: kids are eager to believe in gift bearing magical creatures and there is no need to push the idea, they will right away embrace it, even when they know that it really doesn't make much sense. <br />
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This is the compromise I have worked out for now so that they don't have to grow up without Santa and the old Befana just because I have a problem with encouraging uncritical faith in the supernatural :)<br />
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Anyway, what I was told as a child was that if I put my tooth, all wrapped up in aluminum foil, in a corner of the kitchen floor, at night a mouse would come to take it and leave a little bit of money for me in exchange. This is supposed to be a gentle little mouse, the kind that you might not mind too much having around your house at night, but for some reason the kids have decide to call it the Money Rat. Not as charming as the original, in my opinion. More changes: we wrapped the tooth in colorful paper instead of foil and Rajiv insisted in keeping the little packet under his pillow, which would make more sense for the Tooth Fairy, I guess, but is really not the natural place for a mouse to go and look - at least we would hope.<br />
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In spite of all these changes, as it turns out, the Money Rat showed up. He took the tooth and left another little packet under Rajiv's pillow, wrapped in paper of a different color. The same kind of paper we used too! Inside the paper was 100 rupees bill. The rat was very generous, maybe because it was a first tooth, which is very special.<br />
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</div>Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-23150592323324517722013-08-14T15:45:00.000+05:302013-08-14T15:45:26.469+05:30Three Little Heads<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">At Casa Gialla in Ooty, last weekend. We had to stop playing that game shortly after this picture, though, when Lila tried to swallow the cylinders. <br />
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</div>Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-55634511923903236772013-08-13T16:28:00.003+05:302013-08-13T16:28:57.707+05:30Football (or soccer, if that's how you like to call it)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Now that we have settled back into our routine after the trip abroad, we have also started to look for some extracurricular activities for the children. Homeschooling frees up a lot of time for that and it is good for them to meet other people, both children and adults, that are not just mamma and papa' (incidentally, this is also very beneficial to the parents' mental health). <br />
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As a start, we have signed up the children for a couple of after school classes at Lila's daycare, which used to be their daycare too and is therefore not a scary new place. Rohan, I think, was especially happy to see a few of his friends and teachers again. So far they have art on Mondays and freestyle dance on Fridays. Art is going very well, but the dance thing was probably a little too complicated for them last time and they are not so enthusiastic about a repeat. Still we have paid for a month and so they will give it a try for a few more weeks, then we will reassess.<br />
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The best catch though, was being able to enroll Rohan and Rajiv for football practice right here on the institute premises. This kids football group used to meet for practice in a different area and just moved here, where we have a half decent field next to the hostel and the canteen. Some good luck, for a change! The children just went for the first session today and if it works out they can practice three or four days a week. I didn't want to be the mom with the camera on the very first day, but maybe tomorrow I will try to casually get a couple of snaps. Now I am off to take a look, more later..</div>
Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-41635559180438197382013-08-12T23:16:00.000+05:302013-08-12T23:16:45.692+05:30Il topino dei denti si prepara a farci visita<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Appu sta per perdere il suo primo dentino. Come e' possibile che sia gia' cosi' grande? Eravamo in macchina, diretti in montagna, quando ci ha annunciato senza scomporsi di avere un dente traballante. Noi non ci abbiamo creduto e abbiamo subito controllato, ma naturalmente aveva ragione lui. Piccolo Rajiv cresce..</div>
Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-57384927800035661612013-08-03T16:13:00.001+05:302013-08-03T16:13:14.585+05:30Saturday Afternoon<p> I am at home with Lila. All the boys are out and we have retreated to the bedroom for a bit of ACed quiet time. While Lila rolls on the bed, and on me, I am trying my first post ever from the ipad. It seems easy so far, except of course for Lila tapping on the screen. (In case anybody wants to know, I am using Blogsy and I like it so far..)</p><div style="text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;" id="blogsy_footer"><a href="http://blogsyapp.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://blogsyapp.com/images/blogsy_footer_icon.png" alt="Posted with Blogsy" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;" width="20" height="20" />Posted with Blogsy</a></div>Eleonorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15247808393132338291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7117603408515545703.post-81365919256308674702013-07-31T14:39:00.000+05:302013-07-31T14:39:09.593+05:30Lila On The Slide<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/uUXpS-JfkUA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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