they rule the school around here. i like to pretend that this is something new, but really they have been co-bossing my life for quite a while now. i was never the girl at 22 who knew she wanted kids. but then i would have a dream where i had twins. wait....twin squirrels. seriously. squirrels, kittens....anything but a human baby. i am destined to nurture, for sure. no amount of swearing, denial, and/or multiple other vices is gonna stop that train, no matter how hard i try.
so J and Noelle sheepishly invited us to watch their three year old daughter's soccer "game". do i have to pay? can i pay? seriously, can i just give you some money? make you guys dinner? am i allowed to go? am i worthy? don't answer that, please.
The Denver Kickers are pretty rad. The three year old's team consists of anywhere between two and 5 players.
Most of the time it is girls against boys, because if the girls can't hold hands, they cry.
the boys have clearly done this before.
but the girls still have a move or two to show off, and they are very supportive,
which is totally f-ing awesome to watch.
and this is just a rad action shot.
the final score was "yay everyone!" to "good game kids!" and we celebrated by checking out the Denver Zoo.
i now realize that the SF Zoo is groundbreaking. it qualifies as animal abuse AND child abuse. what a miserable place for the animals to live. What a miserable place to take your kids to. hey SF parents, did you know that at other zoos the animals actually walk around? i'm just saying....
and please let me describe to you the most amazing/sad/inspiring/confusing thing i have ever witnessed at a zoo. so you know how the animals tend to ignore the humans? and it seems that the higher the animal is on the intelligence scale, the more they absolutely detest humans? well, the orangoutangs were in their temporary inside enclosure. one was moving hay around, trying to make a cozy spot to rest. the other was doing this:
if this doesn't send chills down your spine, i think you might be dead inside. sorry about that. maybe you should go watch ET or Old Yeller or something. anyways, there were hordes of children looking back at this curious guy. he was so f-ing aware of being enclosed, being watched. so he watched back. i felt terrible. but then, how many kids got to see this amazing creature and will grow up remembering the experience and do everything they can to preserve wildlife, our environment, the planet? it's such a double edged sword.
i don't think anyone ever took Sarah Palin to the zoo when she was a kid. i mean, unless it was a target practice tutorial...
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LOL.
and I'm not just saying that!
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