Fofoleo

Stefano: Rain Boy 2

So Stefano is now doing maps at school like his brother before him, and having just finished North America I thought I'd see if he had the same spooky abilities as Leonardo with the American states.  Apologies for the scarcity of updates on this blog.  I shall try to improve but no one should hold their breath for that.
Stefano: Rain Boy 2 from Alessandro De Paolis on Vimeo.

Rain Man 2

Upside Down & Back To Front

Rain Man 2 from Alessandro De Paolis on Vimeo.

Little Einstein

There is a new video below and I think you'll find it rather impressive.  What you see Leonardo do was not practiced.  His teacher told us that we should test him on the map of the U.S. because he amazed them.  So just for fun I thought I'd try something improbable which is what you see below, and after he got a couple right I realised I should get the camera out.  So he had never practiced these before.  I also realised later that from his perspective he was doing them backwards.

Rain Boy

Rain Boy from Alessandro De Paolis on Vimeo.

Summer '06 Photos

There's a new album, called "Summer '06", with pics from our recent trip to Europe.  One quick reminder - if anyone ever wants hard copies of any of the photos in this blog, let me know which ones and I'll add them to one of the online photo services, so you can order whatever you like.  There's also a new video below this post.

Streetcar

Streetcar from Alessandro De Paolis on Vimeo.

Stefano Swimming Vids

Below are two recent vids of our newest fish.  More photo albums to come soon.

Stefano Swimming 1

Stefano Swimming 1 from Alessandro De Paolis on Vimeo.

Stefano Swimming 2

Stefano Swimming 2 from Alessandro De Paolis on Vimeo.

Pool/Thomas

Apologies for the delay since the last update.  To the left, the newest album shows a few photos of the boys enjoying their new swimming pool, followed by a trip to see Thomas the Tank Engine.  And below, be sure not to miss a new video.

Swimming

Leonardo Swimming from Alessandro De Paolis on Vimeo.

Christmas Photos

Here finally are the pictures from our Christmas trip to England, along with a few recent ones from home.  I have gone for a better quality of photo at the possible risk of too lengthy download times for those with slower connections.  If this has slowed things down too much please let me know.

Match of the Day

Some football highlights I put together

FoFo's Birthday

We will be posting our Christmas photos soon for everyone's enjoyment, but in the meantime here are some photos from Stefano's 3rd birthday yesterday.  And below this post is a short video from his big day.  Happy New Year to everybody.

Happy Birthday

Summer Recap

Before we start this blog off properly from the present day, here's a quick photo recap of our trip to Europe this summer through to Halloween.  You'll find the photos in the "Summer Recap" photo album to the left.  We're off to England for Christmas tomorrow so there probably won't be any further updates until the new year, when we'll post the photos of our trip.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone.

Pele test video

Here is a little test video.  Let me know if there are any problems viewing it...perhaps it is too big to download.  Certainly any of you with a dial-up modem might have problems and I'd be curious to know if it somehow obstructs the rest of the site or if you can just ignore the video and still enjoy the rest of the blog as normal.

Introduction to Fofoleo

So here it is.  Our blog.  In an attempt to keep our families up to date with the goings-on of our children we are creating this blog.  It will be a journal of interesting or exciting things the children have been doing.  And with it will be photos within the text, like this one, next to these words.  If you click on these they should open up bigger in another window.  And more excitingly, photo albums.  You can access these over in the left margin.  It's all fairly obvious, but once you open an album and click on the first photo you can then browse each photo simply by clicking "next".  After a while older albums will move into the "Photo Album Archive" section, but they will remain accessible.  Whenever we've made any updates to the blog we will email everyone to let you all know.  Email me with any questions or if anything doesn't seem to work on the site.  I hope everyone will enjoy this (hopefully) more regular way of being updated on the boys.  To start you all off we have a photo album of our recent trip to Disney World.  Heather may write about the trip later, but for now here are the photos.  By the way, if anyone ever wants copies of any pics they see here, let me know and I'll add them to Shutterfly, from which you will be able to order as many as you like.  And finally, you'll see that you can leave comments by clicking on "Comments" below each entry.  Comments are most welcome, though less refined readers should remember that they also will be viewed by some people of a more sensitive disposition.  Enjoy.