Sept 14, 2009

discovering an amazing library in the west village

enjoying my watermelon

No no no!

Ada enthralled with Gavri (his pics on email)

Nana & Tata visit!

booty dance

ladies who lunch

Clockwise: Hero, Ada, Yasmin

Ada knows how to turn on the keyboard

puffs

Into my piano

I want to walk

I can crawl

golf

having fun with Noah

pink swimsuit

I prefer to slither

This Carpet is Daunting

No, I'm not Dancing, I'm Reading (mom you repeat yourself often)

Ada and I like listening to music together. Here she is jamming at the keyboard.

I talk myself to sleep

I hate crawling, pain in my butt

I like cameras

Watching TV

Ada with my great aunt, the younger sister of Ada's great grandmother whom she is named after (Jinju, which means Pearl in Korean), in Queens. Sassoon Kim, my great aunt, became the very first female judge in Korea. Here she is playing with Ada...

that's Ada yellin

Big Kids

Sometimes I think that Ada thinks she is not a baby. Ada has never sucked on pacifiers - always refused them - but now, when we are playing, she'll find one, stick it in her mouth, giggle and look at me like, "ma, look...ga ga ga...I'm pretending to be a baby." To compound my suspicions, Ada loses interest in babies her own age, wanting to be around bigger kids instead. She'll greet babies with smiles but then look bored, looking around for the big kids.

This is why Ada loves the playground. She'll excitedly jump up and down when watchingt the older kids playing on the jungle gym and in the sprinklers, wanting to be part of the action. That means I have to stand in the sprinklers too, hee hee...drenched, holding her up while the big kids run around little Ada, who squeals and squeals with delight. Ada particularly loves three year old to five year olds. I'm amazed...we'll be in some public space and if she hears, far off in the distance, the sound of kids, she'll concentrate on the sound, looking for them.

On this rainy Saturday afternoon, Chris, Ada, and I walked over to the Painted Cloud, a neighborhood Arts & Craft space, to watch Chris's former roommate Anna (aka The Good Miss Padgett) sing songs with her band for the kiddies. Ada is crazy about Anna's daughter Penelope, who, at the age of 2.5, is so nurturing and sweet with Ada. Look how excited Ada is in these photos!

Clap Your Hands

ga ga ga

Who Am I?

Highline

As soon as the highline opened up on the west side, Chris, Ada, and I rushed over to see it. I can remember this abandoned elevated subway line from when I was a kid, and Chris and I have been watching its conversion into a park and walkway within the last year. We can't believe how beautiful it is to walk through it, from 14th to 24th street.

Standing on her own?

Here is Ada with her godfather, uncle Carter, learning how to stand on her own.

Shampoo

In the tub