2/13 - Pinkie Pie gets exposed

Overexposed, even.  We tried to take a picture of her with some mushrooms that sprouted the minute we got some rain around here, but the sun was quite bright.

1/10 - Qui-Gon Jinn proves to be quite handy around the house

(Oh, this is still a kid-related blog.  You're in the right spot.  No worries.)

It turns out that Qui-Gon Jinn is very good at counting out the scoops of coffee.

But not so good at trying to fly a container of cherry tomatoes.  Go figure.

5/13 - Plate of Carrots and the terrible vegetable slaughter

I took Plate of Carrots to the salad bar with me to see if we could find some veggie friends, but I guess that’s like taking a pet pig to a sausage factory.  Sorry, POC!

Ooooh!  Look at the pretty shiny bike on BART!

12/24 - BowlMouth finds a winter wonderland

It’s very quiet downtown today.  Most of the stores have closed early, and the streets are all but empty.

This is the elevator lobby of a building where I used to work (you haven’t been there with me).  They put up fake brick walls and hung icicles from the lights and put snow and penguins everywhere!  I hardly recognized the place.

Look how cute you guys are getting ready for Santa!

12/03 - Beagle barks at the wild mushrooms

What humongous fungus!  I guess we did get a lot of rain this weekend…

Here, Beagle sniffs the new dragon.  This dragon wants peace and harmony for the world.  I wouldn’t mind that myself. Beagle licked his knobbly dragon fingers and the dragon giggled.  

Silly dragon.  Licks are for kids.

11/22 - Thankful Thanksgiving

This was the year I cooked my first turkey.  For a vegetarian, this is a big act of love, so I was quite relieved and extremely proud that it turned out well.  I was also relieved that my guests were willing to carve it up and take the gruesome bits home for soup making.  :)  The twins were great helpers.  Lil' Gal made place setting tags for each guest, and she and Lil' Guy set the table.

Lil' Gal chopped the veggies for the appetizer and all of the broccoli for dinner.  Both she and Lil' Guy helped me make the stuffing.

They were very interested in the turkey and gobbled a lot of it up!

We had a wonderful feast and lots of laughter with our friends.

The twins even helped do the dishes afterwards.

Good night!

10/30 - Shy Guy says, "Where's the beet?"

He did not want to try my beet salad, fearing the beet juice would stain his white mask.

These flying dolphins thought it was fun to leap over Shy Guy.  (He was shy and did not like all the attention!)

10/18 - Tigress likes a good curry

Tigress and I went to lunch with Nidhi today, a new work friend.  We had some nice veggie Indian dishes, but Tigress was sad we didn’t order meat.  (We were not.)

4/29 - Weekend fun: Pickle edition

This weekend, we enjoyed the warm, sunny weather.  The kids came with me to derby practice, where guest coach Shadow Soldier whipped us into shape, and gave us scrimmaging pointers.

On Saturday, we went to the farmer's market and I went a little veggie crazy.  Turns out the kids are nuts for snow peas!  Between lunch and dinner, they ate them all!  I learned that orange cauliflower is orange all the way through -- stems and all.

Today, despite the racket from the neighbor's roofing project, we soaked up the sun in the backyard.  My favorite moments were reading with the kids on a blanket under the plum tree and chasing them on their bikes in my roller skates.  (Note to self:  Lil' Guy can run faster than I can skate.)

In keeping with our game where we pretended to be a bird family, I made the twins a "worm lunch," with worms of many colors and some grubs (brown rice).  They loved it!

Also, we made @RecipeGirl's bread and butter pickles with cucumbers from the farmer's market.  They are soooo good!

4/08 - Weekend Fun: Easter edition

Despite my being sick, we pressed on with Easter plans, covering the children with more dye than any Easter egg, a last minute grocery run, and trying to cover for the Easter Bunny despite multiple pop-up children in the night.

Easter started bright (not yet) and early, with the kids up and egg-hunting at about 6:45am.  This was the first year they could read the note from the Easter Bunny!!  (sniff!)

The twins picked our dinner recipe -- Molly Katzen's "Enchanted Broccoli Forest" -- which turned out well. And then I collapsed into bed.

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!