12/06 - Diny the Saur gets a sugar buzz

Diny the Saur and I enjoyed our first cake at the new office today.  Its pastel frosting was a bit unnerving (as are baby showers), but it tasted fine.

Then Diny got all crazy on me and tried unplugging all the cords on my laptop.  Bad dino!

12/05 - Dodo has a fire in his belly

We were hungry, but new work fancy phone wanted an upgrade.  Dodo and I liked the graphic it showed during the upgrade.

Then we tried to get a sandwich from the place across the street, and ordered well ahead of our 1pm meeting. Only too bad for us, because the sandwich place had a system crash and lost our order.  Only they didn't tell us this until we asked a second time for status -- after waiting 40 minutes!  Then there was apparently no way to get anything right away but soup, which was on the house.

Ah, well.  At least we got to introduce ourselves to the vending machines.

12/04 - Dodo gets the cold shoulder

There was frost on the windshield this morning!  Brrrr!!

At least we could warm up with a yummy veggie potato gratin lunch thingy from the company cafeteria.  Nom!

12/03 - Dodo and Peggy like noodles

It was a noodley kind of day, so Peggy and I went out to find some. Nom!

I guess that made Dodo feel kinda canoodley, because he started hanging out under the mistletoe...

12/02 - Dodo finds good fortune

And he really liked my new work!  What's not to like about a jar full of candy, a blue star balloon, and a nice big desk?

 We also got a fortune that was a fortune.  Duly noted.

5/14 - Plate of Carrots is in disguise

Holy cow!  What on earth have we found?  A carrotsaurus?

And look past that table – do you see something round?

* spelling words in bold 

5/09 - Cutie Bird and Tiny wave hello!

Hello!  Happy birthday to Mama!!

3/08 - Stormtrooper Piggie tries on some dinosaur legs

They were even faster than he thought they'd be, as they were on the side of a moving bus!  Go, go baggy legs!

This guy is clearly on the angry birds' side...  Watch out, Stormtrooper!  (He's OK.)

1/23 - Dino likes the new arrangement

There are new flowers in the lobby and Dino wanted to eat sniff them.

Remember when we went to see the monarch butterflies?  And they explained how a caterpillar changes into a butterfly by shedding its skin to turn into a chrysalis.  Inside there, it turns into caterpillar goo, completely dissolving and somehow reforming into a beautiful butterfly, with all its caterpillar memories intact.  (Um, wow.)

Who remembers the word for that process?  Go ahead…  Raise your hand if you know it… Metamorphosis!

Not sure what this drab painting has to do with a transformational miracle, other than having the same name, but Dino liked it.  Good enough for me.

1/22 - Dino's friend has a headache

This poor hand truck seems to be having a bad day.

Unlike the jugglers at the BART station.  While their skills may not be improving (to the casual bystander's eye), their membership seems to be.

7/19 - Annie finds flowers and Meena finds flow

In which Annie and Meena go for a swim... What do you mean, the Taj Mahal doesn’t have a swimming pool? Whoopsie!

Look what we saw during our lunchtime walk…

5/22 - Parasaurolophus reminds us that we're all connected

Or to watch out for giant orange spiderwebs…

Parasaurolophus wanted to eat a rainbow for lunch, so we thought these flowers might do.

4/30 - Dorothy the Dinosaur counts 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 fire vehicles

Excellent counting, Dorothy!

I couldn’t decide what I wanted for lunch, so I walked around until I figured it out – noodles!  I am silly because I order crispy noodles, but then I won’t eat them until they are no longer crispy.  I just like my noodles on the noodley side, that's all.

3/06 - Velma tries to outrun a robot cheetah

Velma (or as we’re calling her today, “Mario”) and I saw a story about a (headless) robot cheetah on the computer.  Watch the video!   

Lil' Gal was asking for a robot cheetah for next Christmas!  Do you think the scientists will let her have this one for a pet?

Silly Velma thinks my M&Ms are dinosaur eggs.  I had to ask her to please not sit on them.

2/28 - Rainbowfin and Diny the Saur are racing

Rainbowfin and Diny the Saur decided to make a “rainbow race” out of the notebooks on my desk.  Rainbowfin was in the lead, but the race ended up a tie.

1/17 - Dino Dog sniffs out cars and cats

Dino Dog found a cute little yellow car on the street.  For a minute there, he thought it was a tennis ball to play with!

He also found some cats to bark at.  “What do you mean, ‘elegant and much-loved?’  I love you enough to wear a dino suit!!  Harumph.”

There was a very lovely sunset on the BART ride home.

Then I froze (temperature-wise, not fear-wise!) at derby practice (but learned a lot of good stuff!), and came home to make cupcakes for the twins' birthday on Thursday to send to school.  I was doing a little happy dance, thinking for once it was easier having twins -- I bake one batch of cupcakes one time and voila!  Then I realized that once they're in different classes next year and beyond, it's all over.  It's one day of school birthday baking, but instead of making 30 cupcakes, I'll be making 60.  You may call me Cupcakery.

Stay turned for what I hope is a wonderful 6th birthday party!  My derby sister lent me all her fondant tools and I tried not to be intimidated when she laughed at my question:  "Fondant's just like Play Doh, right?"

12/13 - Dad Pteranodon writes the twins a love letter

He used the pen Lil' Gal sent with me to work to draw you guys a heart.  Awwww.

(Hey! I did a google search for “Dad Pteranodon” to check spelling, and my blog came up as the 2nd and 3rd results, ahead of amazon and wikipedia!  Yay me!)

Dad Pteranodon wishes and wishes for fishes.  These should keep him busy for a while!

9/26 - Parasaurolophus and the bluest eye

Lil' Gal has been asking for granola bars, like the ones Grant has in his lunchbox.  (And apparently, like the ones have in my desk drawer at work.)  I liked how the blue wrapper brought out the blue in Parasaurolophus’s eyes.  Purty.  We’ll have to bring some granola bars home!

Here, Parasaurolophus nibbles on the tender leaves of a giant cauliflower. NOM!

9/22 - Dad Pteranodon, if you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again.

Dad Pteranodon tried to make a call, but couldn’t reach the 9 for an outside line, or the 0 to reach the operator because he was tangled up in the phone cord.  Whoopsie.

Mommy, what’s a phone cord? 

Is it only offices that still use phones with cords these days?

Dad Pteranodon wanted fish for lunch, but the well was dry. This fountain (if it worked) features water coming out of the bear’s mouth and draining on to an octopus.  Dad Pteranodon says, "What kind of zoo IS this?"

6/10 - Flapasaurus Friday

Flapasaurus makes a nice sunglasses holder.  What a good helper he is!  If only I could give him some of my real work...

Flapasaurus heard about Air Mail and wanted to do some flying deliveries, but all the paperwork put him off it.

Then, he almost got eaten by a fossil!  (I saved him.)

Now we're back at work, pretending we don't miss the lovely sunshine.  La la la la la.
Anyone have good plans for the weekend?