20/11: having lunch at school with Agnese

Agnese's school has organized an initiative that I found brilliant: they allow parents - for a certain period of time - to have lunch at school with their children.
And so I went, to have lunch at school...
It was very nice and interesting to discover a portion of their daily life.

One thing that I completely forgot was the feeling with the noise caused by... many children during lunch time, and coming from office life, which is typically silent, that was a kind of shock!
Again, was I a silent boy at school? OK, let's not go there...

Agnese was super happy... but one of her school mate was very annoyed because his mum would have gone there two days later, and he insisted that he was not fair! ;-)

At that ages, priorities in life are completely different!

17/11: sweet children!

17th of November, general update...

Agnese lost her second tooth... nothing major except for the way it happened...
Coming back home, Agnese run towards me telling that her tooth - which was about to fall - had finally drop out.
I asked: 'how did it happen?'
Agnese answered: 'I was playing with Rachele, then she kicked me in my mouth and the tooth drop out!'.
What a lovely children!

General status update: everything is going very well.
Paolo keeps on growing up. He plays with little soft toy, likes to practice voice and smiles really a lot! It is enough to look at him to get a big smiles.
The sisters love him.
Rachele is very happy at the kinder garden, Anna Maria a bit less because it is always very difficult to pick up Rachele from there: she just doesn't want to leave!
She is becoming very creative and she is always with her head in the clouds...
Just today Anna Maria let me notice that it is not possible to know what Rachele eats at the kinder garden, since she forgets it immediately and then makes up something... which changes five minutes later... and then again...
Agnese is happy at school as well, although at the beginning she was complaining that there is little playing time and much more reading, writing, counting etc...
She is becoming very precise and she is prone to lose the temper as soon as something doesn't go in the way she planned...
Malicious voices said she resembles the father, but not evidence has been provided about it.

31/10: gardening...

We usually do some gardening, but honestly I don't care about flowers.
I prefer to plant what I call 'useful plants', meaning these that provide food...
We have tomatoes, different varieties of lettuce, rocket salad, sweet peppers and some fruits, like blueberries and very successful strawberries.
I also planted a grape, and the plant has grown a lot.... maybe next year we'll have some fruit.

But what happened this summer was... unexpected.
Leaving for holidays, I went to throw away rubbish and I noticed a strange plant in my garden...
taxi came and there was no time for further investigation.
When I came back that weird plant had grown.
Now it was quite clear about the species... but to be sure I had searched on Internet and sent some pictures around: there was no doubt, it was cannabis.
Interesting enough it was the male plant of cannabis, which apparently is good for nothing...
But even more interesting there is quite plenty of use that a non smoker person such I am could do with cannabis: butter, cakes, textile for shirts, petrol similar to diesel...

In any case, after first observation period, none cared about it and the plant has been removed, but the question remains: how was it born there at first?