Gnomes at Work at the loft

Gnome 1

Gnome 2

patio plants grow huge

cactus reaches for the sky

succulents stretching

Bamboo shoots up

Bamboo blocks the front door

Orchids blossom

Front plants thrive

Gnome 3 appears!

Gnome seeds all over the patio

I spy in Pixar

Pixar Characters in Other Movies

Ratatouille: When Remmy is scurrying through the walls and enters an apartment, Dug from the movie Up starts barking at him. We only hear him barking and see his shadow on the wall. Also, during the scene when the dwarf-sized chef is chasing Remmy on a motorcycle because Remmy snatched the papers, who can eye-spy a poster of Mr. Incredible if you looked extremely closely.

Nemo: Mr. Incredible also is noticed in this movie. When the pelican is attacking the dentist and a boy is watching in shock, you can see him reading a Mr. Incredible comic book. When Nemo enters the aquarium, you'll notice that the dentist's office has a toy box with Buzz Lightyear inside. During the credits, Mike Wazouski the little green cyclops is scuba diving.

Monsters Inc.: When Sulley returns Boo to her door, Boo shows him a toy Nemo and Jessie.

Frozen: When guests are gathering for Elsa's coronation, Flynn and Rapunzel with short, dark hair are noticed. When Anna goes off in search of Elsa, she rides Maximus the horse from Tangled.

Up: When the house takes off and a little girl is watching from her bedroom window, try to eye-spy a Lotso teddybear in her bedroom.

Toy Story 3: When the toys arrive at Sunnyside and enter the Butterfly Room, perhaps Boo from Monsters Inc. is a little girl playing with some Daycare toys. Plus, Totoro (who is not a Pixar character) is one of Bonnie's toys. Sid from Toy Story 1 is the garbageman.

Everyone knows Barbie is in both Toy Story 2 and 3.

Tin Toy: Big Baby from Toy Story 3 is in that short film.

Toy Story 2: The cleaner who fixes Woody's ripped arm is the old man playing chess from the short film Gerri's Game. He also looks like Madame's lawyer, George, from Walt Disney's The Aristo Cats.

Tangled (one character in it's own movie): During the opening scene, you can see a toy chameleon on Princess Rapunzel's mobile when she is a baby.

In most of the movies and short films, the yellow ball with the blue stripe and the red star from Toy Story is found, like in the Pixar short about the big and little studio lamps who appears in the Pixar logo.

Some of my summer in Mexico drawings and adventures

Fantastic Fantasy Food

In case you have a child who’s a picky eater, here’s an idea of what you should do. What you should do is tell them that it’s not what it actually is, but instead trick them into thinking it’s a different food with a creative name, and it comes from a world of fantasy. They’ll get used to the flavor. That way, it’ll be an easy job for your child to eat their healthy meal. You won’t have to force them into eating it. Here are some examples of the ideas for what you should name the food:

Peas: Green Drops

Carrots: Orange Twiglets from Jupiter

Mashed potatoes: Fluffy Clouds

Mushrooms: Sliced Pixie Stools

Spaghetti: Unicorn Hair

Eggs yolks: Sunshine

Sausages: Vampire Fingers

Cauliflower: Snow Trees

Cabbage: Butterfly Wings from Saturn

Bananas: Yellow Moons

Oranges: Mermaid’s Circus Balls

Apples: Crunchy Balloons from Uranus

Salmon: Ocean Nibbles (tell your child that mermaids love them)

Cheese: Moon Slices

Rice: Snowflakes from Heaven

Tomatoes: Mars Squirts

Santiago Super Hero!

Today is Father's Day and Dad and I have been spending our day together. We took him out to lunch and walked around the bay shooting photos. As you can see, I've had an unusual afternoon taking care of routine business.

As a super hero I am always on the lookout for trouble

I was about to freeze an evil villain, but accidentally froze Grandma Pillo

I immediately took action to shrink the ice cube and remove her from a state of suspended animation

Using my laser power to protect our instruments from my nemesis

Fighting dementors attacking Seaport Village

 Escaping the flames with web power by hitching a ride on a plane bound for Tibet.

Don't mess with Father's Day. All in a day's work. 

The beautiful start of my amazing long summer vacation

Today was the last day of sixth grade and Dad and I celebrated with a nice long bike ride on Coronado Island. Two and a half glorious months of summer vacation start now!

Sixth Grade Drawings

Here we are in the last week of sixth grade and I wanted to upload some recent drawings shot with my parent's i-phone.