I don’t mean to brag, but, in my very biased opinion, I seriously have some of the cutest  nieces and nephews on the planet. It is basically blowing my mind that two of them have now grown enough to start school. Here are some adorable recent shots of them.

Maya off to her first day of school in Ketchikan Alaska. Beyond cute–

I seriously love that her backpack is as big as she is. Flawless first day of school outfit, right down to the ruby slippers.

And here is my little nephew Kelton. I’m not going to say these are cute (because I don’t want to risk taking a samurai sword to the knee caps next time I see the guy), but he is a handsome little kindergartner.

Serious props on the hairstyle (he chose it himself). His teacher is going to smell trouble in the air from a mile away with this little guy.  Hahahah.

This weekend was so great. We really didn’t do much, at all. I was able to take naps on both Saturday and Sunday. The definite highlight of the weekend, was our Sunday morning visit with Piper. It was one of those times, where she was in an awesome mood when we arrived, and stayed that way the whole time we were there. Her therapist left Piper’s little walker in her room, this weekend, so that we could let her use it. As soon as we got it out, she started squeaking and smiling from ear to ear. She LOVES walking around, now. It seriously might be the cutest thing that I have every personally witnessed.

After she walked around in her walker for a while, we decided to take her outside. It was pretty sunny and warm, so we went straight for the shade. Even in the shade, it was a little brighter than Piper was accustomed to. It took her a little while to adjust.

After going back inside, we decided to take Piper down to the cafeteria, which is always empty on the weekends, and has some windows that are just the right height for Piper to stand up and look out of.

Who knew that windows could be so fun? Hahahaha

If you want to check out more shots from our Sunday visit with Piper, head over here.

One thing I realized this weekend is that we don’t make it to Kings county enough. Every time that Reagan and I wander into Brooklyn we are both like “why don’t we live here.” I have to admit though, that depending on what neighborhood we go to, I get a little bit hipstered out. Anyway. We hit the Renegade Craft Fair, which was really cool. It was also really windy, and threatening rain the entire time. As a result, I didn’t really have the camera out much (sorry Zhush). I did snap the image above, just because I thought that it was cool that the display had a shelf made from a skate deck.

Eventually the clouds burst into a torrential downpour that lasted about 5 minutes. We bolted across the street into Urban Rustic just in time to keep from being totally soaked. It just happened that we were also hungry for lunch, so it worked out well. By the time that we finished eating, it was blue skies again. On the way back to the train, we grabbed some frozen yogurt (above) and hit several “vintage” shops (Reagan and Erin’s idea). But we did pass a cool door on Driggs ave that had a few stencils and wheatpaste pieces on it, including a cool C215 stencil. But, I really liked the wheatpaste below. I have seen it before, and I’m not sure who does it.

Anyway the weekend as always flew by far too quickly. See you soon, Monday.

I got the weekend off to a banging start, last night in SoHo. I had the privilege of meeting several professional skateboarders that I looked up to, as a kid, including original Z-boy Pat Ngoho. We kept the weekend in high gear on Saturday, with the arrival of Reagan’s Sister Erin and her husband JR. First we took a jaunt into Westchester to visit the Pipster.

She climbed under a chair, chasing one of her birthday cards that she had dropped on the floor, and had to be coaxed out by auntie Erin.

For dinner, we ordered in. But since it is so bloody hot in our apartment (even with the A/C running full tilt) that we retired to the rooftop for a picnic of sorts. It was breezy and much cooler up there. Of course I couldn’t be on the roof without getting a shot of my favorite buildings, hahahah.

Sunday, some of our close friends (and Piper’s friends), the Carters came to hang out with Piper one last time before moving to AZ. We had a blast, as usual. The Carter girls always play so nice with Piper. I love the shot below, of little Penelope entertaining Piper:

Piper was also able to get in a couple of extra snuggles with aunt Jody, before she flew home, Sunday afternoon.

Piper pointing out Lyle the Crocodile:

We had fantastic weather for the Brooklyn Half-Marathon today. Reagan and I traveled to the race with a bunch of our friends from the running club, which made it a lot of fun. We all had a pretty good race. I didn’t hit my 1:30 goal. But I wasn’t too bummed about it, since I didn’t really deserve it, the way that I have been slacking lately. The race was really fun for me though, and I was ok with my time.

Stats:
Distance: 13.1 Miles, 21.1 Kilometers
Date/Time: May 22, 2010, 7:00 am
Location: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Weather: 58 Degrees, 86% Humidity, Wind 6MPH
Total Finishers: Men – 3421 Women – 3585 Total – 7006

I had an awesome view, while being stretched out, under the Parachute Drop on the boardwalk at Coney (above). Below: our group chilling out and stretching on the boardwalk after the race.

Reagan’s sister Jody, who is visiting for the weekend, met up with us after the race. Of course we couldn’t go to Coney Island without taking a lap on the Wonder Wheel.

Danger! Hahhaha

Piper’s B-day party was a blast. All of the kids in her little school class hung out and ate cupcakes together, in their fancy Reagan-made party hats.

Piper even thought about trying a cupcake of her own. She didn’t get far though. She ended up just doing some finger painting on her dress with the frosting. Hahahaha.

After the party, Piper went back to her room and opened all of her new b-day gifts. As a bonus surprise, Aunt Jody was able to come hang out! Reagan’s good friend Holly also came to participate in the festivities.

After all of that birthday action, Piper was ready to snuggle up with her favorite blanky and take a nice b-day nap.

The rest of the images from Piper’s B-day can be seen over here.

My cousin Tif is in town right now for a trade show that is currently taking place at the Javits Center. Sunday night, she came to visit Piper with us. It was a lot of fun. Piper was in a great mood, and was happy to meet Tif. Tif is the first cousin of mine, from the Breinholt side of the family to meet Piper. So, it was a historic occasion of sorts. We don’t often visit Piper during the evening hours. It was really fun to see Piper dressed up in her little jam jams.

Starting off a bit random– I have been encountering so many good female DJs lately. At an event Wednesday night, K Styles was spinning. She was actually tag teaming with Miss Saigon, who I saw at a Cavi runway show a couple of weeks ago. Nothing shameful about being told “you spin like a girl!” Anyway, go girl power!

This weekend is set to be a banger. I just landed a gig as a staff photographer for one of my favorite e-mags. I’m seriously insanely (I don’t use those terms loosely) stoked about it. I’ll be diving in head first, Friday night. Here is the agenda for the weekend:

Friday

• Roa has a gallery opening at Factory Fresh, Friday night.
• Afterward, we are going to a super secret Passion Pit show at a location that I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you. It’s kind of like Nick and Norah’s infinite playlist, except without the scavenger hunt, or the relationship drama. Hahahaha.

Saturday

• Morning, we have a club points race 10k in CP to promote healthy kidneys. Amped about this, but lazily unprepared for it. I may as well kiss my 40 min. goal goodbye.
• Afternoon, the usual antics with Piper and her roomies.
• Night, my cousin Tif arrives in NYC for a stationery show, at which incidentally, our good friends Max&Bunny will be hosting a booth. Not sure if we will be able to hang out with Tif Saturday night, but we are going to give it a shot. At the very least maybe we will drop by her room at the Marquis so that we can covet the view from her window.

Sunday

• Tif meets Piper

As if all of these niceties were not sufficient, I have it on good authority that Banksy will be in town (if he is not already here). Double crossing my fingers that I might have a chance encounter with some of his work and get some snaps, before it is ganked and auctioned away. I hope that everyone else also has an amazing weekend!

Friday was my first ever, visit to the Bronx Zoo. It was pretty awesome. When my sister Melinda came to visit, it was one of the things that she put on her list of things to see, while in NY. It was also Reagan’s first time there. We saw some pretty awesome stuff. There Lions, tigers, bears, Reagan hamming it up, on the bug carousel, hahahaha.

I loved the giraffes. Every time I see some in person, I’m blown away.

Reagan, wasn’t the only one having a great time on the carousel…

For those interested, there a some additional zoo photos over here.