Paoletti Family: August 2012

Friday, August 31, 2012

First day of St. Bridget's Coop

This was the third year the kids participated in St. Bridget's coop. Dominic will be in the 2nd grade class and Isabella will be in the 4th.

Monday, August 20, 2012

First day of School

My 6 year old boy

My little 9 year old

They are getting so big

Aug 2012

Sunday, August 19, 2012

To kick off the new school year the cub scouts get together for a HUGE water slide activity. They invite the families of the scouts and everyone gets to slide down the huge tarps with fire hoses providing the water pressure. It is pretty fun to watch. 8.2012

Saturday, August 18, 2012

My boy and the critters he finds

Dominic finds a Garter Snake

Look here Stella... wanna play with my snake?

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Summer at the Pool

Daddy & the Kids

My sweet boy

We love summertime at the pool. 8.2012

Feast of the Assumption

Working on pictures of the Blessed Mother

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Sunday, August 12, 2012

We're Going to Disney World....Scavenger Hunt

The kids just thought this was a "back to school" scavenger hunt. They had no idea what was in store.

Look how they are working together.

Giant gold box with a ribbon....we found treasure

Balloons come flying out but they don't "get it" yet

"What??? we are going to Disney World???" Dominic still is clueless....he is wondering just what Disney World is.

They are both starting to get excited. Dominic is excited to finally fly on an airplane. We now realize that we need to show Dominic some youtube videos so he can get excited about Disney.

The count down is on. Disney here we come.

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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Dominic wins the Blue Ribbon

Dominic won the library art contest

We are so proud of our talented little boy

The theme was "Around the World" and Dominic drew a picture of hot air balloons from around the world. His picture was inspired by the summer Olympics and his grandmother-who has rode in a hot air balloon more than once. 8.11.2012

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Deanna Rose Farm with the BW's

8.2012

Why do I Blog?

There have been some questions as to why in the world I would want to waste my time blogging. To those questions here is my response: First off....let's face it I am not a blogger. Blogging requires thought, opinions, issues and I just don't have time to type about those kinds of things when I could be posting pictures of my incredibly funny kids. Besides who wants to hear my opinions anyway? Probably no one and frankly I don't blame them. So the real reason why I blog...I know you are thinking I am going to say "for you" but to be really honest that isn't it either. I mean, I am happy that people can log on and keep up to date with what is going on in our life and see the kids grow up. But the real reason I blog is for my kids. This is their online scrapbook. I would consider myself to be a pretty creative and crafty person. I aspire to scrapbook but I just don't have the time or the space to do it. So instead I try to capture their childhood in pictures and words: the funny things they say and crazy things that they do. Someday they will get online and read about what they were like and know why we are so crazy about them. The best part is that I don't have to deal with glue or archival paper and the internet scrapbook can last forever.

What we are up to now:

Dominic is a big 6 year old now. He continues to be filled with joy and enthusiam everyday. He still loves super heros and celebrated his birthday with a Justice League birthday cake. He adores our two cats, Stella & Krypto. Every free minute he spends "loving" on them. I am amazed at what the cats will tolerate. He is really enjoying his first year of Kindergarten and is becoming a good reader. He gets to take art classes and piano and is doing great in both. When he isn't playing with cats he is building with Legos or playing super heros.
Christina continues to work one night a week teaching and is now homeschooling a 3rd grader and a kindergartener. She is also is teaching kindergarten phonics and 2nd & 3rd grade book club at the homeschool co-op. Her life is pretty scheduled with children's activities, class planning and all the fun that comes with taking care of a family. This year the whole family started taking piano lessons. Who would have thought she would start learning piano at her age! Also this year they started teaching Natural Family Planning as a couple for the church. Bringing God's plan for love and marriage to those who will embrace it. In September she got to go for 3 days to Colorado to visit her friend Gina. It was an amazing weekend of relaxation and fun adventure. She is hoping it will be an annual event.
Michael's continues to work hard to support our family fun. He is now a Creative Director at his company Salva O'Renick and is enjoying the challeges that come with his new role. This year he was the 8 & under coach for the Metro Lazers track team and really enjoyed working with the kids. In his free time he love to play superheros with Dominic and draw with Isabella. He has also enjoyed teaching NFP for the church and is so grateful for the graces that have come from teaching.
Isabella is growing into quite the little lady. She turned 8 over the summer and continues to be a voracious reader. She is currently loving the Classic Starts series and American Girl Mysteries. Her favorite 3rd grade subjects are history and spelling. She was in a constant battle with long division but there seems to be somewhat of a truce lately between the two. She continues to love her art class and is really enjoying our new family music lessons. She has an amazing ear for music and a natural talent for playing. She loves all her book clubs that she is currently in...there are 3! In her free time she loves to be creating something, playing with her dolls or reading.
Family: this year has been a wonderful year of joy in our family. We got to take a few vacations. In June we had a few days in St. Louis and in August we got to have 5 days in a cabin in Southern Missouri.