Maile likes to pick out her own outfits for bed. She has a colorful eye. She’s also big on shorts over the pants … and very particular about her socks. So far we have this constrained to bed time, but I imagine that will be short lived…
Daddy, don't these rainbow stripe socks look beautiful with my rainbow striped pants? Yes, Maile, yes they do.
The full ensemble + 2 year old smile
And Maile, for when you view this in the future, the title of this post references Punky Brewster, a TV show your Mommy and Daddy watched when they were kids:
One of the shots from Jenna Park's Mixed Race Project
A couple month’s ago a good friend of Christine’s reached out to ask if we’d be interested in participating in a photo project that a friend of hers was working on. The photographer, Jenna Park, was hoping to take photos of mixed race families at their homes. From Jenna:
The Mixed Race Project is a glimpse inside the homes and lives of some of these multiracial families. I didn’t want to focus on taking traditional portraits – there is certainly enough visual documentation on the beauty of mixed race people out there already – but I felt that portraying families in the context of their homes made a stronger impression of how we live.
We thought it would be fun to participate and a couple months ago during a visit to San Francisco, Jenna came by our apartment for about an hour and took pictures of Christine, Maile and I going about our day. We painted, played bubbles and hide and seek, and ate lunch. A pretty typical Saturday and we all had a lot of fun. Jenna also asked Christine and I a bunch of questions about how we grew up and how we think about raising Maile.
We’re entering a pretty fun stage of being two – the “no” stage. Maile is Ms. Independent these days and if Mommy or Daddy make a suggestion, turns out we are often wrong. The video below is a good example. Maile Girl put on her shoes all by herself (yay!), unfortunately, she put them on the wrong feet (woops!). Simple fix, right? Eh, not so much.
We picked up cupcakes as a treat on Saturday after dinner. Typically we get Maile one of the mini cupcakes, but they were all out. So she ended up with a “big girl cupcake” – we tried to cut the big one into pieces, but Maile wasn’t pleased with that. So we let her have at it.
Any tips on how to eat this thing?
We’re pretty sure she still ended up eating about the same amount as the mini cupcake, the rest ended up on her clothes and the stroller…
Fleet Week in San Francisco is always good times. And we’ve been checking out the Blue Angels with Maile since she was only 13 weeks old! This year she was old enough to ask questions about what was going on and actually enjoy seeing the airplanes flying overhead. She still wasn’t the biggest fan of all the noise, but luckily we came prepared for that…
Maile proudly rocked her pink ear guards ...
... but sometimes the Mommy version is just better (as it is with most things...)
Last weekend we met Sophie at the California Academy of Sciences. There was a time when I felt much older than Sophie, but now she is basically the same age as me. We ran all over checking out the fishies and making shark cookies. Pretty solid Sunday if you ask me!
The floor was see through! I asked Daddy if we could set that up at home and he said he would work on it!
Sophie and I pretty much checked out everything together.
Sometimes we asked one of the mommies to join us...
We're still little so a lot of the action takes place above our heads...
... but we just stand on our tippy toes and we make it work!
After running around the museum, we headed out back to make some shark cookies. Mommy helped me with mine.
Then Sophie and I compared notes before chowing down!
After hearing the news that Steve Jobs passed away this afternoon, I packed up for home, gave Maile (and Christine) a big hug when I arrived, and then Maile and I played some iPad games for awhile. Felt like a nice way to pay our respects.
Tonight I thought I’d repost a couple videos from the past about Maile’s interactions with some of the wonderful things Steve and his team created.
The iPad Wizard – Maile at 16 months old(!)
Maile Hearts the Apple Store – Maile at 22 months
Yes, Apple is a business. (And they’ve certainly made a lot of money off of this family!) But the devices they’ve created are magical. Nothing has proven that to me more than watching Maile pick up and use an iPad at just a little over a year old. I’ve never met Steve Jobs, but the devices he’s created impact my life every single day both professionally and personally. For that I am thankful.
My mommy is always making my hair look pretty, so I decided to return the favor. First I had to work out all the knots – that’s tough work. After that I straightened everything out and added a “pretty”. Voila!
(Dad note: starts to look painful for Mommy towards the end…)
