Drains to the Bay

The boys are fascinated by the storm drains in our neighborhood. They always stop and announce cheerfully, "This drains to the Bay!" and then they shout, "Hello, San Francisco!" as they peer down into the drain. I don't know where they got that idea that the people of San Francisco can hear them through the storm drain but I think it's hilarious.

Big and Little

This afternoon as I was unstacking the dishwasher Oliver and Elliot were outside getting down to work of their own. They were methodically removing all the tomatoes on my plants before they had a chance to ripen. One was picking, the other was squishing them with his sneaker. These are my favorite Sungold little orange cherry tomatoes. I was so mad. I said, "You guys are little rascals!!!" Oliver got upset and objected to that appellation. "Mom, we are NOT little rascals. That's mean. We are BIG rascals."

So now I've put my big rascals to work. Elliot is unstacking the dishwasher and Oliver is folding laundry. Too bad the way they do it is actually just creating more work for me to do later.