Post Thanksgiving hangout

Ghita likes to climb in baskets

Thanksgiving 2013

Luciano rolling out the pie crust.

Kid's table

After dinner playtime.

Ghita's new friend

Ghita ate non-stop then went home and slept it off for 12 hours.

Carolyn made a wonderful juicy turkey on her 25th anniversary of being a vegetarian.

Sunday

After church the kids and I went to Disney for lunch and a few rides. Ghita LOVES Rosetta they shared some good laughs.

And here is how Dad spent his Sunday on set.

Star Student

Luciano is star student this week.  This means he has a board dedicated to him at school with pictures of him and his family, he gets to tell the weather report, go to the front of the line and on Friday he gets to give everyone a small gift that comes out of the treasure box.  The treasure box is a cardboard box that he gets to decorate.  Most kids just wrap it in paper but not Luciano.  He worked out a dragon design with Dad.

Describing the dragon.

Here he is with his board.

Heritage Day

Thanks Grandma for the last minute costume request for an Italian outfit.  Bella was excited to go to school in it.

Luciano's latest work

Here his is with his painting from last week and today's turtle. Each week they work from a masters image, learn about the artist and do their take on it. This week was this girl. And poof she is turned into a teenage mutant ninja turtle.

Lunch at the beach

B&L doing a puzzle

An attempt at a kid shot but they weren't interested and wanted to run along the beach.

Luciano with the hundreds of birds out today.

Ghita watching the big kids run in the surf.

Practicing standing

and more practice

And...finally solo standing for 2 seconds.  She will be walking soon.  What a big kid now!

Taco Night

With Dad working non-stop the roles have switched at our house.  I'm on duty most of the time now.  But I still don't like to cook so I am training the kids.  They have mastered the fried chicken routine so we have moved on to tacos to expand their skills.

Luciano was in charge of pouring the olive oil, washing tomatoes, browning the meat and setting the table.

Bella was in charge of chopping.  We need to work on tucking her thumb under so not to cut it off.

And Ghita just barked orders to cook faster.  She's a hungry monkey.

Harvest Day at School

Pluto the dwarf planet

Now that Bella is in the second grade she is responsible for take home projects. The first was an animal collage.  The second is making a model and report of a planet.  Here she is with Pluto - the Dwarf Planet.