No eating from the knife, no swashing around water in the glass, no biting lower lip with upper teeth, no no no… So many lessons to teach, so little time… I think Papa might start rebelling soon…
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The other day Arya didn’t approve of Papa’s half-hearted efforts at shaving. She felt Papa’s face & told him he was very “rubido, rubido” and had to be “liscio” (smooth) like Arya & Mummy…
Last night Arya was tearing up the petals of 2 pink flowers and putting them in a bowl of water and when we asked her why she explained that by putting them in water, they will become butterflies and fly away…
After we put Arya to bed, Daniele carefully put away any signs of the petals. In the morning when he asked her where the petals went, she excitedly exclaimed that they became butterflies and flew away!!
L’altro giorno (ieri, l’altroieri,.. ?) ci siamo fatti delle risate da matti a cena. Era penso la prima volta che Arya aveva capito che le stavo facendo il verso e non la smetteva piu’ di ridere…
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The other day (yesterday, before yesterday, … ?) we were really laughing out loud at dinner. I think it was the first time that Arya realized I was mimicking her and she just couldn’t stop laughing…
Arya was trying to stick a spoon into the slot between the fridge and the freezer when I asked her not to saying it would either spoil the spoon or the fridge… but she insisted that she was doing it “be carefully”.. Her next strategy was to say “Mummy, you hide”. Great, I thought! “So are you going to come find me?”. “No, but go hide”, and she showed me where to hide. After I obliged, she told me from the kitchen when it was OK to come out again. And I thought Daniele and I were the only ones capable of using distraction as a technique…
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Arya stava cercando di infilare un cucchiaio nella fessura tra il frigo e il freezer, quando le ho chiesto di non farlo perche’ avrebbe rovinato il frigo (o il cucchiaio). Insisteva che lo avrebbe fatto con molta attenzione.
Poi dopo un po’ ha cambiato strategia e mi ha detto di andarmi a nascondere. Ottimo, ho pensato.. “Poi mi vieni a cercare?” . “No, ma nasconditi”. Dopo che mi sono nascosta mi ha detto dalla cucina che potevo tornare. Pensavo che Daniele ed io eravamo gli unici capaci di usare la tecnica della distrazione !
Today was a rainy day but I decided to go out for a short walk anyway with a bobbing orange mushroom.. Arya had her orange jacket on with her orange umbrella that she holds close to her head so that all you see is an orange mushroom walking.. At what age do puddles stop being fun?
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Oggi pioveva e siamo andati a farci una passeggiata comunque con un fungo arancione che mi saltellava a fianco. Arya aveva la sua giacca arancione addosso e il suo ombrello arancione aperto sopra: si vedeva solu un fungo arancione che camminava…
A che eta’ smettono di divertirsi con le pozzanghere?
Arya now likes to use the toilet all by herself and closes the door. If only I could get that much privacy when I need to do the same…
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Arya adesso vuole andare al bagno da sola e chiude la porta. Se solo potessi avere io questo livello di privacy…
Siamo andati da Kate e Arya ha visto un pianoforte per la prima volta.
Si รจ seduta e ha iniziato a pewmetw tasti e cantare !
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We went to Kate’s house and Arya saw a piano for the first time.
She just sat down and started pressing keys and singing!
