In a week of first, another small step for men and a giant step for Amy
This morning i was having tea with biscuits, and Amy was looking at me longing
so i thought mmm she is 6 months old, she has been very good with her food, she does try and eat anything that comes into her hands, my parents brought plasmonn biscuits from Italy
so
1+1+1 = 2
i gave Amy a biscuit (you can see she was not so convinced at the beginning...)
Her first biscuits and she did eat it, all on her own, with minimum spillage...
"What is is that you said i should be doing with this????"
Yum Yum Yum
so bring on the season of new wall decorations, made with food
This morning we woke up very early,
we still could not go to Amy's layer in the sitting room and Amy was being a bit bored so i decided to turn on the phone, put it on front camera and proceeded to give Amy the phone ....
These were the results
:)
"Amy here is the phone, you need to tap on the screen "... click
" me likes this"
and she kept on banging on the phone, so more pictures were taken...
So indeed Babies can operate mobile phones, they indeed seem to be intuitive
so no more excuses for my parents, that cannot take pictures on the mobile.....
and no more excuses for my husband that does not take pictures....
... In Italy we do not have Halloween, on those days in October/November we remember our departed relatives and friends with endless visits to cemeteries and flowers
(chrysanthemums to be precise... a flower you learn from a very young age to identify with death and gives way fro plenty misunderstanding when you go abroad)
I only remember the utter boredom of it all plus the "caldarroste" i was allowed to have as a treat if i behaved.
So i was excited for Amy to have her first trick or treat night in London ... last year we finished 4kg of candy in 30 minutes... so many neighbour's children and parents showed up, it is a great way to get to know people that live close by and have children..
I even bought her an outfit....
But then life is strange and we found ourselves in Italy for Halloween...
was I supposed to give up and not have a celebration?????
Of course not!!!!
we did try and ruin 2 pumpkins by carving them (too ashamed to post pictures)
and in the end we did settle for costume and (me) eating a lot of candy
here are the results:
When i was a child getting a passport was like a dream,a momentous event that will enable me to leave the horrible little town i was born into and open the doors to amazing locations and exotic destinations (to be fair up to 15 the most exotic place i visited was Switzerland !?! )
The path that led me to my first passport was long at first i did not have a passport, i was "part" of my parents passport, when i got to 11 i got a strange green wallet, at 13 I graduated to an ID card and finally with the move to the UK i got my Passport.
So when the time came for Amy to get her passport (after all she has got dual nationality) i was duly excited; she will have not 1 passport but 2!!!!
yuppieee
Just after we registered Amy at Lambeth council we started thinking about passports and we started gathering information on how to get them...
In a matter of hours we realised that getting a British passport was pretty straight forward:
-get birth certificate
-get wedding certificate (translated by any registered translation agency in the UK)
-get form from the post office
-pay fee
-get passport
all pretty straight forward....
we then called the Italian Consulate to get instructions on how to obtain the Italian passport; it became immediately clear that it would not be so simple ... after 5 minutes on the phone with the very helpful assistant i was reminded of Asterix and his 12 tasks:
A few weeks down the line we are still lost in the burocratic iter that will one day lead to the "lasciapassare A38" but just a few days ago we got a letter in the post
Amy was all excited:
and indeed in a matter of 5 days we got Amy's british passport:
So we are all ready to go... Italy here we come, tomorrow it is going to be Amy's first flight
.. A musky Saturday morning, a strange music flows through the sitting room....
Science officer Amelia Chiesa is getting ready for her first adventure and she is ready to boldly go where she has never been...
Here she is trying her first proper commute
.... we would have had a lot of picture if my husband had actually worked out the beam me up app, but he could not work it out .... I did however find a way to put him on the cover of SF magazine:
on the way back plenty of photo opportunities courtesy of the Emirates cable car:
