Author Archives: Mama
Someday dancing with Daddy won’t be cool
But we’re not there yet.
Back on the Team Manhangeles homefront…
Ada wants to tell you all about her new flash cards.
Everything is better with pals.
She has no shortage of friends, this gal. There’s no way to know whether we or any of our friends will stay local for years to come, but it is fun to think about whether she’ll be one day going to high school with the same little boys and girls she plays with now. Last … Continue reading
The Big Girl Chronicles
Wanna see her in action? This video is a bit longer than usual, and please pardon the wonky compression on this one. We’re doing a bit of detective work to figure out why the quality is so poor. (BUT seeing her do her tentative crawl is cute enough to make the full 3 minutes AND … Continue reading
Keepin’ it real
Yep, she’s living the life. Exclusive urban topless rooftop brunches. Kicking around in her new pad. Sporting some fly baby shades in the park. Kicking back with her posse. Sporting a new sippy cup. Bounce, bounce, bounce… holla! And she’s on the move like it’s her J-O-B.
A West Virginia wedding
This weekend was Uncle Greg and Aunt Heidi’s wedding. And since, you know, Ada wouldn’t be part of Team Manhangeles if she didn’t already have her own frequent flier number, we hopped a plane to Pittsburgh to go see them off to holy matrimony. (Mainly, we didn’t want to make the 9-hour drive with a baby … Continue reading
6 months? Really?
We look back at photos from just a few months ago, and we think, “Wow, is that our Ada? She was so tiny!” There’s something about a six-month benchmark that feels significant, like the next stage of her life has already arrived. The first six months of life with our teeny newborn and sweet infant … Continue reading
She’s a social butterfly
We couldn’t come home to too much quiet, could we? Since we’ve been back from the west coast, we’ve kept busy with mama and baby friends, and also some of our own usual suspects. On Thursday, Uncle Alberto arrived and we celebrated by heading out to the new Dino BBQ in Newark with Uncle Seth. … Continue reading