Paoletti Family: September 2012

Monday, September 24, 2012

Apple Picking at the Buhman Farm

Who needs a ladder to pick apples when you can climb trees!

After picking apples at the farm when went in to see Grandma Buhman.

Making apple pie

The kids made mini pies of their own.

Even though my grandparents no longer live at the farm we still go out to pick apples and grapes. 9.12

Monday, September 17, 2012

Harvest time

Bella and I picked grapes while Dominic caught butterflies.

Concord grapes from the farm.

Straining the grapes to make juice.

Getting ready to make some jelly.

Putting the canning lids on the jars.

Pouring the jelly into the jars.

Isabella loves grape jelly if it is home made. We have been blessed to be able to go out to the farm to pick grapes a few times over the years and make our own grape jelly. Nothing beats homemade.9.12

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Ring that Bell

Bella making it to the top of the climbing tower.

Dominic climbing, barefoot.

They had a climbing wall from IBEX at Riverfest. The kids had a great time trying the different levels of difficulty. When they get to the top they get to ring a bell. Dominic was able to make it to the top of the most difficult level. The guys that ran the wall were pretty impressed with his skills. 9.12

Visit to the Lincoln Museum & Home

Abe Licoln & Mary Todd

Ready to fight in the Civil War

Posing with the Lincoln family


Rubbing Lincoln's nose for luck

My little Prairie girl

Getting water from the well

My sweet little girl

My sweet little boy

This is the Lincoln family out house

The Lincoln home in Springfield

so cute

The kids and I had time to visit New Salem and Lincoln's home while we were visiting Michael's parents in Springfield. Michael's mom was able to come with us. It was fun and educational the kids even dressed up for the living history museum. 9.12

Monday, September 10, 2012

Let's Go Royals


Cotton Candy & a baseball game....its a good day.

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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Babysitting comes Full Circle

Alex and the kids, after a long day babysitting.

Fun in the tent.

When I was 12 I started babysitting for my little cousin Adam when he was a wee little baby. Over the years I babysat his brother Aaron and finally Alex. I had many fond memories babysitting my little cousins. I am really starting to show my age now that Adam has graduated from college and his youngest brother, Alex just babysat my kids while Michael and I were at an all day retreat. It truly is a full circle of babysitting fun. Alex and the kids turned the living room into a giant tent. 9.12

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Happy Birthday Michael

Anna, James, Emma, Michael, Christina, Isabella, Dominic

We got to have a fall celebration and a birthday party for Michael all in same day. Yummy ice cream cake! 9.2.12

Pumpkin Patch with the BW's 2012

My sweet kiddos

Dominic, James & Anna

Fall Family photo

Wheeling around looking for pumpkins.

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Anna, Isabella, Emma, James & Dominic

Silly kids

Another visit to the pumpkin patch with the BW family. 9.23.12

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.