just a family day on the beach...

 in italy the first of may is a national holiday: the workers day. giulio just came back from dubai so we decided to spend the day in a famous seaside city near where we live: jesolo. my relationship with sea is of pure love: i need to see the sea and put my feet in the sand at least every 3-4 months and i think zoeti has the same feeling! we spent a perfect day: the sun was shining for the most part of the day, it was warm but not too hot, zoeti found some playmates, we had a picnic, ate gelato, walked a lot... and coming back, while zoeti was sleeping, i finally had some time to talk with giulio... when you have a kid is always tricky to find a moment to actually talk with your partner and i almost forgot how funny we are together and how much we need to focus on our couple sometime!

PS: i bought a new lens for my D90: 85mm 1/8... terrific!! these are the first shots!

pregnancy menu ideas

i've already talked about toxoplasmosis here but i'm so obsessed with food lately that i want to share some other menu ideas (toxo-free).

as you can see i'm obsessed with salad and tomatoes! actually... from all that it's red: tomatoes, strawberries... i'm waiting for watermelon and peaches! another reason for eating healthy salad is that i already gained 8 kg (!!!) and i want to stay under control as much as possible (also because i really can't say no to chocolate). I bought a fitball and i'm using my cyclette (yes guys... here it's always raining!!) to start moving my muscles... i'd prefer a long walk into the nature but since it rains...
i hope to be persevering in my exercise program (i always start with enthusiasm but i quit very soon)

17/52

 "a portrait of my family, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Zoe Tiare: my sleeping angel! today we had the first mummy-baby swimming lesson and you loved it! 

Me & my belly: 26 weeks. trying to guess if it will be a baby girl or a baby boy with a pendulum. do you know how it works? you take a ring (i used my wedding ring) and a necklace (or a cord) and you move it right above your belly: if it turns round it will be a girl and if it goes back and forth it's a boy.

the result? guess!

Giulio spent the week away for work so i lived as a single mom... i didn't have enough time to see a lot of the others 52 project portraits but i still found some pictures i love: another peaceful sleeping boy from my curly boy and the joy of this little girl playing with leaves.

taking part in jodi's project

a day at the zoo Cappeller

waiting for the kangaroo jumps

with granny

look daddy...i've found a buddy! but i'm the one who drives!

today is a national holiday in italy: liberation's day (to remember the liberation from the fascist party). giulio is in dubai for work (daddy we miss you so much!!) so we spent the day with granny at the zoo, Parco Faunistico Cappeller. it's very close from where i live and so nice! zoeti had a lot of fun (and we too)! we had the chance to see exotical animals such as camels and kangaroos, several types of monkeys, pinguins, a great variety of birds, some ostrichs (they are very big!) and reptiles. i had already seen some of that animals in our trips to australia, south america or south africa, so it was both fun and weird seeing them here. i think that zoeti is still too little to understand what's this and that but she enjoyed the animals calls and their movements. the park is a must for families: not only to see animals but also to have picnics or enjoying the playgrounds. 

and we spent the evening at my parent's house, between the swing and some cherry blossoms...

mini shopaholic!

yes... still a little bit big, but here we have rainy spring and rainy autumn!

recently i've been into this store with a huge sale for closing and i fell in love with powell craft! i bought this raincoat and some other cute things for our next baby, our nephew and friend's kids! zoeti keeps asking me to wear it even when it's not raining!! this english brand is a family-owned business that houses victoria-inspired clothes for kids (and a selection of nightdresses and blankets). now that the shop where i bought these fabulous raincoat is closed i'm looking for other ways to find this super cute stuff! like any busy moms i love shopping online and i found this shop, dolly rose, with a great choice of powell craft products (i don't know why but seems to be impossible to shop directly from pc website)

that's what's in my wishlist:

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"a portrait of my family, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Zoe Tiare: playing with a colorful umbrella, during this rainy weekend

Me & my belly:  25 weeks - enjoying the only 5 minutes of sun in the whole day... in a yellow sea! spring is here after all! you keep moving and kicking so hard... sometimes i'm talking to somebody and i have a wince when you move! 

Joining in with Che and Fidel project

my favorite shots of the past week are: sea and salt self portrait (so dreamy), a bedtime story from still moving swiftly, naptime from life, love and syntax

5# book review

one of my resolution for this year was to read one book per month (see  my resolutions here)  well... i'm doing it and i still can not believe it! i always loved reading but with a child it's not so easy... with two i think i can forget it for at least one year!
this month i read Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère. it's a biography on a russian men, Eduard Limonov; who was writer and politician, a bit fictional.

his life was nothing less that pure adventure: first in ukraine, then in russia, where he met his first wife. after he moved to new york and paris, where he felt the real degradation and he wrote his first romance.

it's hard to believe that what's writing is actually true (even with some literary fiction!)

i don't know if you can find this book in english, but in french for sure!







now i'm reading all baby and pregnancy related book, and something about siblings... if you have any suggestion about this last theme please tell me! as i said i'm only child so seeing relationship between brothers and sisters is brand new to me!