Paoletti Family: November 2014

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Thanksgiving 2014

Aunt Amie & Isabella

A little ping-pong at uncle Jeffrey's new house.

Thanksgiving dinner 11.29.14

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Celebrating Dominic's birthday Grandma & Papa Paoletti

11.27.14

Friday, November 21, 2014

Suessical Jr.: Starring Isabella as Thing 1

Lots of amazing friends came to see the show and support Bella

It was such a blessing to have amazing family and friends!

Grandma & Papa came too.

So excited to get flowers and gifts from her fans.

The Cat in the Hat and his Thing 1 & Thing 2

Mrs. Meier & Sam with Bella

The Bauer family

The Elmans

11.21.14

The SPO Missionaries & the Hardesty family

Ms. Terah, Isabella's music teacher

Mrs. A (Isabella's art teacher) & her grandkids

Mary & Lucy

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Sets crew: Suessical Jr. 2014

It was great working with these wonderful ladies making all the great sets for the show. Thanks Beth & Maureen for a fun season.

The amazing Circus McGurkus train

Look at the cute t.v. I made!

I did the cute Cat in the Hat box too.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Happy Birthday Dominic

Dominic made this little Lego birthday boy in honor of his birthday.

Dominic was in need of a bigger bike....just in time for his birthday.

It was 19 degrees out on his birthday...did that stop him? Nope!

Birthday breakfast, biscuits and gravy

Cupcakes to give to his friends today at art class

9 candles

He was so super excited on his birthday morning, he woke us all up at 6:30am!

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Dominic's 9th Birthday Party

Flaming castle cake.

Dominic came up with some very funny scenes for the Lego figures on his cake.

I love the little guy mowing the grass.

My little 9 year old

Pizza delivery guy with a tourist behind him.

Olympic swimmer in the moat and a life guard on watch

11.9.14

Birthday party Fun

Pinata

Collecting the spoils of the pinata

Opening gifts

Getting ready to blow out the candles

Family and friends celebrating his special day

Cousins

Mad dash for the finish line.

Sack race

Relay races

Digging for their first clue in the Lego scavenger hunt

11.9.14

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.