I have been home sick. I hate being sick. I felt better but Mamma kept me home so next week I am really not sick again. Today I got on my iPad and went to my favorite news website and I found “Can you spot the Artist”?

http://dogonews.com/2011/1/24/can-you-spot-the-artist

I think this is amazing! The artist is invisible. Almost!!!!!!!

It was very cool because there is a picture of the American flag and he did art in Italy. This is me, American and Italian! His video is great too. I love the song it is very happy.

I love art because it is very interesting to me and makes me feel nice inside.

Mamma Mia:  I have always encouraged LuccaBella to be interested in news & history because I did not like history or news when I was young. I searched for a website that had appropriate articles for young readers that she could read & that she would be interested in and enjoy. When I found dogonews.com I never thought it would be such a hit. When I suggested she start a blog, I never thought it would be such a hit either. However, we still go over current news every week the good, the bad & the ugly (in a VERY kid friendly fashion) so when she enters high school she is ready to tackle Newsweek & The Gray Lady articles with me on a weekly basis. I can only hope I am making smart choices ... you only get one chance at this wonderful job! The best

This is my reindeer. I can’t get a real one!! Walking to school my Mom said our house is not going to be a menagerie. It’s some big word for a zoo. I want a zoo!!!!!!!!! But she makes the rules and I lost. So now I only have a cat and this reindeer and she won’t let me walk the reindeer to school because she will have to walk the reindeer home and she says she will look ridiculous. I think they will look cute together. But she said no and she makes the rules. My reindeer stays home all day with my cat.

Yesterday my mom said the reindeer pooped all over the house. My reindeer does not poop. It’s a balloon!!!!! She was trying to be funny. I hope my reindeer lasts forever because she is beautiful and I love her and her nose is red like Rudolph’s.

 

Mamma Mia: Wow, I sound so mean! Odd … not wanting to walk a balloon around the streets of Italy … what kind of Mamma am I? If I were walking a balloon reindeer down the streets of Italia, perhaps the police might wonder if I were mentally stable. I was thinking one cat was great and THINKING about goats was being VERY open minded! But the reindeer put me over the edge. However, the balloon reindeer, I could handle!

I want a goat but I want to be able to shave it and stuff my animals with it so I decided a lamb would be better. I emailed my friend Michelle in Italy and she wrote about MEEEEE on her website and my question about shaving goats. There is this goat called a cashmere goat. My Mamma says cashmere is great. The best. I don’t know maybe it is but I want something very soft and cozy!!!!! The pictures of the Cashmere Goats are really cute!!!

Then we goggled them and we saw these baby cashmere goats. I want both of them and they kinda look like lambs too. I have a purple lamb from when I was a baby and I still love it!!!! We had to email the people to ask if we could use their photo. They said yes. They are so nice! Look at their website: http://dariaandandyblog.com

I can’t have a goat now because I live in the city and there is nowhere to put it but once I have a yard, it will be perfect. My Mamma has talked to Michelle about the poop too and my mamma thinks maybe goat poop might be better than lamb poop too.

I like goat milk a lot when I was little mamma called it “special milk” because I was allergic to cows milk. A goat is called a capra in italy. Also, if we had a goat we would not have to mow the lawn. I think goats are great but not as good as cats. I could have cats and goats.


Mamma Mia :  Welcome to the FARM! Yes, at 9:30PM I was emailing Michelle in Calabria (Southern Italy) with LuccaBella dictating her question about shaving goats. Surprise NO email BUT an entire blog post for an answer. This cementing the 8 yr. olds’ desire for a goat. Daria and Andy were very also very generous letting LuccaBella use their photo as she fell in love with the baby goats and I have to admit so did I and they shared with us they LOVE Nutella and think it is great that LuccaBella has this blog. She was thrilled! For now, the house has a cat and we will keep you posted!

I told Mamma I want to write on my blog and she said that was great. I stopped wanting to write for a while. I wanted to watch cartoons and play and then my Nonni and Nonno came here and I stopped to be with them. Nonni means grandparents and Nonna is the right way to say grandma but in America I always said Nonni.
My teachers at scherma had a Halloween party for everyone. It was so much fun. We got to do all of our training in our costumes but no swords that day. We did have a piñata. It was great! My Zia sent me my costume because I think they do not have Superhero costumes here. I like superhero’s and I wanted to be Bat Girl. I think my costume was the best because I was the only superhero. My Mom took pictures of everyone and even the food. Italians are not so used to Halloween so Mamma made cupcakes and we took them to our neighbors and I was in my costume. They all were surprised and they gave me a candy back too. Some house I got to go to on two nights. They invited me. I need to think what I need to tell Zia what I should be next year.

Mamma Mia:  I am glad LuccaBella has her writing “bug” back again. For an 8 year old it is not easy to stay with something. For an adult it is not easy to keep the drive. She enjoys scherma (fencing) and their party was so cute. The piñata was a paper bag filled with candy. Remember, this is Italy & we are not close to Mexico or have any type of Mexican themed stores anywhere. I am lucky to find tortillas & canned refried beans when I want to cook Mexican. Bat Girl did enjoy walking the block with her cupcakes in hand on Saturday night while she collected candy in trade & then on Sunday Halloween went back to some houses for a 2nd loot. Not bad for a 1st Halloween experience in Italy. Thank you Zia for Bat Girl & also, thank you for not sending a Robin costume for SkippyJon Jones!

 I like to joke and play around and sometimes Mamma gets mad at me and says my jokes aren’t funny and they don’t make sense. I think they do and she is confused.
This was a good joke and Mamma even said so and so I am going to say how I joked her and Babbo. We were watching TV and they could not understand what was happening. So I told them what was happening because I understand Italian better. The lady had called the fire truck and the man asked when and what time?
Mamma was very proud of my Italian and we kept watching the boring show. Mamma kept asking me how I knew all that and all these questions. Then I told her I joked ya because I didn’t know what the lady and man said. I had no idea, they were talking too fast for me.
Mamma and Babbo started laughing so hard and me too. I really joked them. Babbo said, he knew they didn’t say fire truck. Mamma just looked at him and we laughed so hard.

Mamma Mia:  Yes, Miss LuccaBella does try to joke a lot but I don’t get mad at her. However, teaching her when to joke & when not to joke is important. The other night about the lady calling the fire truck was hysterical and where she came up with it, was priceless. It fit the seriousness of the talk show perfectly! She is a funny girl & she loves the line, “I joked ya”. Her own made up term. She has a million of them!

 I got my hair cut short like my Auntie Susie and I have side burns but only boys have side burns. I don’t like that! So I named them Hot Shaves. My Mamma started laughing. I don’t know why. All girls with short hair should call them hot shaves. I want Mamma to go to Mickey who does her hair and tell him that he needs to start calling girls side burns, hot shaves. Mamma has to go she has black and blonde hair right now so this will be perfect. I don’t know how to say hot shaves in Italian?

Mamma Mia: Where does she come up with this stuff? I have NO idea? I was laughing so hard. I wanted to edit out my black & blonde roots but it’s true & this was so funny & so raw, I just had to let it stay! Mickey, which he spells his name Miki spends 2 weeks in London & 2 weeks in Italy will “LOVE” “Hot Shaves” & if anyone can launch a term, it will be Miki.

P.S. Thank you to everyone who is signing my Nutella page! Keep telling everyone! I have till February & I am going to the newspaper here! I am a little nervous