More airplane pictures

I have more pictures from our trip to Italy that Dany took. You can see Cati beginning the journal that she's keeping for this stay in Italy, Elena looking a little uncertain about flying, Giuseppe having his inflight meal, and Matteo enjoying it all!

Abbiamo arrivato in Italia!

After a long day and night of traveling from Pittsburgh and through NY, we arrived in Italy Monday morning. The plane trip went pretty well. The younger kids slept 2-3 hours. Cati and Maria stayed awake the whole trip. We took up a whole row across the plane. There was a couple sitting behind Dany, Elena, and Chiara who had an empty seat beside them. The flight attendant made them move so that Matteo, Giuseppe, and I would have an extra seat.

We've been enjoying time with Dany's family, eating good food, and getting over jetlag.


Here are a few pictures that I took on our day of travel, and one that I took looking out the window of Dany's parents' home.

Speaking of Italy

As you can imagine, there is constant talk around here about our upcoming trip to Italy. Here's a conversation I had with chiara tonight as I was putting her in bed:

Chiara: We're going to stay in Italy for a whole week and then come back so that we can go to church.

Me: oh, no. We will go to church there. They have lots of churches, the biggest churches you've ever seen!

Chiara: I hope their big churches don't have needles on top to pop the clouds because I like the clouds :)

4-months-old!

Giuseppe is 4-months-old today!

And he's already a budding musician!

Fall Fun!

This time of year the kids frequently express their disappointment in the lack of trees in our yard. Well, our church has a number of trees that put down a think layer of leaves, and the kids can't resist playing in them after Mass in the morning...

Sunday afternoon

First post from the Blogger App

My blog took a hit a year ago when my parents got me an iPod for my birthday. The iPod make sit so easy to take photos and send them via email or Facebook that I stopped taking the time to blog with my laptop. In fact, I rarely use my laptop anymore!

Well, I found a blogger app, so I'm trying it out. If it works, perhaps my blog will come back to life!

Since I know that anyone who comes to my blog does so for the photos of the kids rather than any words, I've included one for this post. I'm not sure where it'll end up, though :). It is a picture of Cati sitting at the table where she likes to work. She has the doll that she made with her Grandma a couple of weeks ago, plus a collection of marker tops that she's acquired. Cati's always been a collector!