May Cute-of-the-Month

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Plastic God

The family did something crazy and went to San Francisco for 1/2 a day to see our dear friend Plastic God. He had been asked to paint a room for Hotel D'Arts, in his notorious style. Plastic God and nina go way back, about 15 years. We met at Pasadena City College, where we were taking design, painting and drawing classes. He knew he was an artist, nina didn't know anything. Plastic God went on to The Art Center, worked in the corporate world, quit that and now makes his cool heads that he is famous for (nina has Billy Idol and Police). nina went on to drift around (a.k.a party), fall in love, finish school and now makes baby and kids clothes. Strange where life takes you. It was great to see him and talk about things, past, present and future, all the while having The Monkey run around the pub. I'm so glad were still friends and miss the old days a little.

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The Week of Gifts Part III

Books, books and more books. The Monkey loves reading. Here are some of the books he received:

The Giving Tree
A classic. The Monkey has his own, the cherry tree.

Big Dig
A 10 as far as Pop-up books go. Very animated and functional.

Olivia Forms A Band
The latest in Olivia's life. The Monkey can't get enough. He has us imagine a new story every night before he goes to bed. His favorite theme, Olivia eating an apple pie and/or riding a train.

Olive, My Love
A very sweet book. We believe this book came from the author listening to Led Zeppelin's "All of My Love". Rock on.

The Week of Gifts Part II

Another cool gift The Monkey received was this Caterpillar Bulldozer by Bruder. The monkey likes to go over to the park and make mountains, big and small. He won't let us throw the box away because it's the garage for the bulldozer. He likes to recycle.

The Week of Gifts Part I

This last week as been a good one for The Monkey. He celebrated is 3rd Birthday and sort of learned who the Easter Bunny is. With those two events he received some pretty cool gifts.
The first being Haba's Block and Tackle. For those non-physics types, like myself, a Block and Tackle "is a device for lifting weights where a rope or chain is threaded over pulley wheels. If the upper 'pulley' is loose, the power needed to is merely the weight of the object, divided by the number of ropes caring the weight." That means that this little wooden toy can lift up to 350 pounds. Pretty cool. What was funny, was when The Monkey opened the gift, we were all trying to show him how it can lift a basket full of blocks, but Tom wouldn't have that. He grabbed our friend's wooden chair to show The Monkey this law of physics. It has evolved from that wooden chair, to a five gallon bucket filled with various objects, to, as you can see, The Monkey himself sitting in his car. I'm so thankful we have insurance.

This Little Piggy Wears Nina and Tom

We just got an order from This Little Piggy Wears Cotton. Super cool. They are a west coast chain of baby and kid's clothing with eight stores and their website. Check them out and look for the Piggy wearing Nina and Tom in late May. Yeah!

Hello Again New York

From March 8th to the 15th, Tom went to New York to the children's apparel trade show ENK Children's Club. This time, we were invited to join sixteen of California's top Children's designers with the California Kid's Collective (Petunia Pickle Bottom, Tea, Neige, Glug Baby, Fleurville and ExtraSmall, just to name a few). This gives us a lot of exposure on the east coast which we would not otherwise get. New York is not California and for Tom he would enjoy standing on the street, having a slice of pizza and a soda for$2.50 and the New York show that goes with it for free. He finds New York amazing and admires the diversity and vitality. See you in August New York.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Dia Duit and Happy Saint Patrick's Day To All! I think Tom and I are going to share a four pack of Guinness and call it a night. It's been a busy couple of weeks (the reason for the lack of posts). I hope our Irish ancestors won't take offense to our lack of celebration and Guinness intake. We'll be posting on what has been going on in the next few days.
Slainte!

A Very Busy March Starting With Pig Day...Part III

This month has been one of our busiest with many different events happening. The first was Pig Day on March 3rd at the Davis Farmers Market, a celebration of National Pig Day (who knew) and the start of spring. This year, Pig Day kicked off our third year of selling our kid's t-shirts to the public. Every Saturday, weather permitting, we get up and head over to the market to sell our shirts. We feel like we have become part of a special community of farmers, ranchers, musicians and crafters. We also are fortunate enough to print the market's souvenir shirts for them. Nina and Tom the Official Screen-printer of the Davis Farmers Market (who knew).

O.K., We're Bragging

While playing with The Monkey, The Bubby decided to teach him a new trick, to write the letter A. The Monkey will be 3 in April, so we are pretty impressed. Excellent Job to The Monkey and The Bubby.

Tour of California in Our Little Town

Yesterday, the Tour of California came whizzing through our little town of Davis. It was a nice break to go outside and watch some of the world's finest cyclists race down B Street. For us, cycling has an important history. When Tom and I met, almost 12 years ago, he was an American pro and I worked behind the counter at a coffee house in Los Angeles. While training in the local mountains, "Hot Cyclist Guy" used to come in and order a cappuccino before his rides and I would gladly make it for him. The rest of the story is like a tour it's self, long, hard and challenging. We are not sure what stage we are at yet or who has the yellow jersey but realize we have a ways to go. (I think I'm kicking his ass.)