6/24 - Weekend fun: Rainbow wheels edition

I'll be honest.  This weekend was a lot about me and things wheel/derby-related.  On Friday, I had derby practice.  On Saturday, the kids and I played, I cleaned the house a bit, and we went for groceries.  Then, I skated with my team (and others) in the San Francisco Dyke March.

Count Whackula and I arrived shortly before the march was to take place. We couldn't find our group, but skated furiously through the pack --er, crowd-- to get through to the front, where we *did* find our girls!  Then we may or may not have danced on tables, enjoyed burritos, and generally derby grrrled it up.

On Sunday, my teammates and I watched the Gotham vs. Rose City bout with Shadow Soldier and her brother Killa. That was one burly bout! Check out this "Pegassist!"

Care for a bowl of rebellion? Anyone?

6/22 - Pink Penguin haz a happy

This motorcycle guy had a smiley face on his pants leg. How funny! It made Pink Penguin smile too.

Pink Penguin tried to teach Cutie Bird to ice skate. She slipped on the desktop, and Pink Penguin asked, “Are you OK?!” Cutie Bird said, “I meant to do that!”

6/21 - Yoshi learns a wheelie important lesson

This was written on somebody’s bike wheel (upside down!): “Each one teach one.” What will you teach me today?

Another one of those ice cream ads, this time with banana boats. (Lots of banana commentary today, for some reason.)

6/20 - Monkey sends hugs and kisses

We couldn’t remember which were Xs and which were Os, but we send them nonetheless.

Brad and Monkey say "Hello!!" They liked the rooftop garden, but Monkey thought there should be more bananas. I told him not everybody likes bananas, and he told me I was silly.

6/19 - Shy Guy plays king of the coffee

We usually drink coffee from the office kitchen, but when there’s an early meeting, I grab one on the way in. Shy Guy felt so tall up there on this cup!

Whooo is his new friend? A nice owl we met on the way to haircut, that's who.

6/18 - Baby giraffe finds fog and a tall triangle

This BART Police officer was much taller than Baby Giraffe, even when he stretched his neck waaaaay up.

He stretched his neck again, but he still wasn’t as tall as the Transamerica Building. Sweet little Baby Giraffe and his stretch goals…

6/17 - Weekend fun: Mommy's Day edition

This weekend was going to be filled with Pirate Festival and fun, but what we found instead was a heatwave and Lil' Gal with a fever.  We were grounded.

Still, we had fun, and the kids gave me a really special Mommy's Day. Playing with Cloud Dough:

Flowers from the garden for me:

Artwork, a special poster, and two of the best smiles in the world:

6/15 - Fumi and Octopus scream for ice cream

There were two ice cream ads – one flavor for each toy.   Don’t these look delicious?

We sat on the rooftop garden for a while at lunchtime to get some fresh air and enjoy the sunshine. Ahhhh. Fumi and Octopus enjoyed the summer sun(dial). (It’s supposed to be super hot this weekend!)

One of Mommy’s coworkers falls asleep a lot and sometimes snores.  He must have a really boring job.  He didn’t even wake up when we took this picture!  Fumi says, "Naptime is over!"

6/14 - BART has a meltdown and Sneep tries to catch the bus

Between my safety alert lists and my wonderful friends, I became aware this morning that BART was not running.  It was the twins' last day of school and our morning routine does not have minutes to spare, so we kept calm and carried on and got them out the door.  I'd just missed the last morning bus into the city, but there was a chance I could overrun it...  Mama and I hopped in the van and gave it our best, but we did not succeed.

Silver lining?  I got to go to the twins' kindergarten graduation.  Thank you, universe!

6/13 - Sneep drools at the thought of working escalators

Here is a picture of the escalator repairman and the newspaper guy that tries really hard to get me to take a paper every morning.  (Hint:  Smacking it in my face will not help your cause.)

Sneep says hi to you:  "SNEEP SNORP!"

At lunch, Sneep found some tentacle friends.  Do you remember seeing this octopus at the aquarium?  Sneep thought he was another alien at first.

Then Sneep thought the alien in my building’s lobby was so silly for being upside down.