LA Zoo with Mayhar & Crimson

May-har Li and Crimson have been a God sent to me and Marley. She is an incredibly talented artist and our sons were born 4 days apart. We met on a gig performing for Kanye West in New York. And we have been friends ever since. Sometimes juggling life , work, family can be stressful and hectic. And we seem to always be there for each other when those binds happen. She graciously offered to take Marley to the zoo on a play date with his buddy(her son) Crimson on "one of those crazy days". Thank you for the whole day. Marley could not stop talking about the spider man face paint and all of the animal at the zoo. You are an amazing friend!

Best Buddies

The Best family has been blessed with a lot of support living in Los Angeles. Living in a state without immediate family can be very challenging and difficult at times. I don't know what we did to deserve all the beautiful friends in our lives , but we have some incredible people that step up to the plate in the most selfless manner and I thank you all.

I want to dedicate this entry to our friends May-har and Crimson. Our sons are only a couple of days apart and have known each other since the beginning. They've had countless play dates at the park,zoo,kids club, birthday parties, etc. They are best buddies and its just been a pleasure to watch these two pure innocent beings blossom into a beautiful friendship. They can play, fight and make up in one breath......And history is forgotten. They have learned so much from eacho ther and we've learned so much from them. May-har and Crimson are moving to Las Vegas this week and we will miss them tremendously. I will miss my Mommy to Mommy time with May-har and Marley will miss May-Har and Crimsom time. You guys will always have a place in our hearts. xoxoxoox

London Visits LA!!!

These are a few candid shots of Marley and London on her first day in Los Angeles and her last day in L.A. As you can see, from the first day they have a bond. Almost as if they see each other every week. Marley loves his cousin. He loves playing with her and making her laugh. London's laughter is so infectious that she has all of us laughing once she gets started. It warmed my heart to see the both of them playing and just feeling really comfortable together. I just wished we all lived in the same city. We'll see you soon London, London. Miss you already.

Beach Day in St.Kitts 2010

Sharing is Caring

Play dates are the best! It's the best excuse to catch up with friends and allow our kids to bond and play. I wish it could be more frequent, especially with all of my girlfriends who live out of town. Lately, Marley's play dates have been taken place in indoor playgrounds. Last week, We met up with Coralissa,Ivan and Nainoa in Sherman Oaks. I love this girl so much I drove into 99 degree weather ....to play indoor! Hahahah

Pictured: Marley 17months and Nainoa 14 months playing b-ball. I think Nainoa was unfairly charged with a technical foul.

We also visited www.nayaplayground.com in SilverLake. Marley and Crimson had a play date and they had fun going down the slide into the ball pit. This place is really awesome, because every inch of this place is padded! I could look away and know that he's OK. The lady pictured with them is a Nanny for the kid pictured in the lower right corner. She was so smittened with Marley and Crimson, she was totally trying to get a job. She gave me her number for her services, and I guess she kind of gave us a 5 minute freebie. She was really sweet. But Wow, times are getting tough for everybody.

The Love Regime!!!

This past weekend Ahmed and I attended the 3rd wedding, in 3 consecutive weeks! Luckily, this beautiful wedding was coviently in town and child friendly. We had a really lovely time, we caught up with old friends and enjoyed dancing under the stars. The wedding was perfect and the couple Nick and Katey were just lovely!

The babies were so well behaved, It was almost as if they new what was happening! Marley even cheered in a timely fashion during their vows. Married the same year (2006) and closely bonded by becoming part of the new parent club ....the same year (2009) , The Laybourne's, Deleforce's and Bests' in no time, occupied our assigned table (CandyLand) with strollers, baby food, blankets and slings. The couples tagged teamed on eating dinner and sneaking a couple of dances on the dance floor. Marley even had some reserved energy to do a little head nodding and hip shaking on the dance floor. Nainoa was sporting his sharp threads and Skender was flashing his knock em' dead smile. I just wanted to eat them all up!

Alas! At the end the little ones tired themselves out as they slept nuzzled in our arms, as we share baby war stories! lol Ohh what amazing dreams we have for our future Love Regime!

Happy Birthday to Meeeeee with frenzzz and Babeeeeez!

This year I really could not decide how I wanted to celebrate my birthday. I mean, it did fall on a Saturday and what a waste it would be if I did absolutely nothing for my Birthday?! So, Friday I decided that I wanted to get out of L.A and take a road trip to Vegas. Me and Ahmed ventured off with Marley, for his first road trip longer than an hour. The first two hours he slept! Thank Goodness and the other half of the trip I just pulled out all of my best non-sensicle mish moshed nursery rhymes and songs.....poor Ahmed. ;)

We arrived in Las Vegas late morning and had a yummy breakfast at the Egg & I. (I saw it on the Food Channel with Rachel Ray). Then we met up with Stephanie,Keith and Makai at the Fashion Mall to kill a couple of hours. They are relocating back to NYC and we are going to miss them. Even though we do not live in the same state, it was just nice to know we had Family on this coast. Anyways, we had fun and a lot of laughs. We didn't stay too long, because they had last minute packing and we had to check into the Marriott at three. Only 25 minutes away we arrived at the hotel and it was really nice. The bathroom was awesome! It had a jacuzzi and ........that was a Birthday present in itself! Ahhhhhhh I soaked for a good 30minutes and it was heaven. I could have stayed all nite, but I had plans to have dinner with Coralissa, Nainoa, and the Middleton's at one of my favorite sushi restaurants. They serve this special salmon roll with curry sauce and mango! YUMmmmmm I'm still dreaming about it. After dinner we went back to Lissa's ...had cake, watch all 3 babies play for the first time. My first Birthday as a MOM! I received my first "You're #1 Mom" card! It was so exciting. I will never get tired of getting those even if Ahmed buys it for him. LOL

I have to say the sweetest part was watching our boys play and interact with each other. For the longest time Me, Steph and Lissa have been trying to get into the same room with our son's and it finally happened! Although Steph is going to NYC, Lissa in Vegas and I'm in L.A. They have been my sisters. I really feel a kindred spirit and I am so happy we have been able to share many of the best times of our lives from work, weddings and babies together. We are going to have amazing "remember when" stories later on and many more chapters to share. Love you guys.

Thanks to my Hubby for whisking me away ......I love you.

Aloha Stomp Family

Last Thursday and Friday our dearest freinds Coralissa, Ivan and Nainoa came to Los Feliz to visit. This was our first time our boys have met each other and it was so beautiful and amazing! I feel like we actually live parallel lives with the Deleforces. We both met our spouses through STOMP, got engaged the same month, married the same year, and had big baby boy a trimester apart!!!! We could have planned this if we wanted to but I'm glad we are doing it!

Nainoa is such an awesome and gentle little soul. Marley was so intrigued with him, he could stop staring and smiling at him. I think they are going to be really great friends in the future. We've already putting a boy band in the works. We kind of assigned instruments, but everything is still up for grabs. As far as Im concerned MNM is still the name right? Marley Nainoa Makai. There was a recent birth from our friends Herren and Sam. Their son's name is Skender. Hands down, we've already decided that "Skender on Bass" sounded really cool. Sorry lil' Laybourne, start slappin de bass!

Thanks for spending family time with us, your presence is missed! Move back to L.A! Please.