Laying low

Inspired by another lovely writer, I am posting after many months. When I kept a journal, I tried to pay attention to an interesting vignette each day. Kind of in the same way, I actually have a theory of dancing. That you smart small with a tiny movement and do that again and again until your whole body is consumed by the reverberations of the tiny movement.

And in other news, we had lunch with our lovely Lelli today. :)

The letter D

Golden Gate Park botanical gardens

Hogu, hadu and I spent a lovely morning with friends Alice and Thelonious at golden gate park. We were greeted by goose poo and fog reminiscent of our lake house on Old Trace growing up. A picnic snack feast and a wooded 'circuit' that the boys could run where they would go just out of sight before turning back towards us was all we needed for a real adventure. Afterwards, lunch of Arizmendi pizza outside where you can watch the N Judah train (and mask any screaming meltdowns with traffic noise) was in order. But mommy's big mistake of the day was not arranging a train ride back to the car. No amount of explaining that the tracks didn't take us to our car made it better. Our final solution: sketched plans for a city-wide car-carrying train, to stop at our house, the park, preschool, and 'that house over there'. The name of our mass transit spectacular: the space shuttle. 

Biscuit boys

Loving biscuits from Georgia delivered for hadu's birthday! Thanks nonna

Hadu's first fire engine

Pizza faces

We went to dinner at the pizza place after  the farmers market on Valencia. Notice the size of Hogu's head compared to the size of his pizza. They are the same!

Construction

Hadu and hogu playing construction at puddle jumpers. Construction is not to be confused with the 'constructors' which are hadu's name for the playground equipment. 

New masterpiece. Yes, I'm talking about that smile

Happy 4th of July

Our inchworm and the fork front loaders from Casey and Levana. 

In the park cart

Hogu's first preschool days

Best friend

Hadu quote: our best friend is Lola (the cat)... (pause) our little old cat is Nona (the other cat)

Nap fail

Quote from Hadu: what are you doing in my living room?...you're waking me up!

The brothers who poop together...

Masterpiece

Favorite phrases

Hogu says 'too', 'right now', 'over here'.

Home & the brave

Hadu poses next to 'Pomp-stomp', the dryer. Isn't he looking brave conquering his dryer noise fear! Pomp-stomp, as always, looking on, inscrutable. 

Scuba diving

Dentist- getting clean