whitney was right!

"I believe the children are our future!" sang Whitney Houston. Sigh. She's right, isn't she?

It is amazing how great relationships fostered in the family lead to healthy people, leading to a healthy world. I have several sets of friends who have babies now. It is amazing to see them grow. Here are the Andrzjewski's (don't try to say the name). That's Ryan, Aidan and Sara Lynne. Both Ryan and SL are actors and Aidan, well, he's picked up on his parents good looks to be one himself! This is us at Mao's Kitchen:



Today, I had a wonderful day spent running around Pasadena-La Cañada areas with Jaki Larsen and her twin boys Daylen and Kai. Poor Happy Day has been feeling a bit congested. But! By the time I got there, he seemed to be just the most happy happy meal ever. I met Jaki's husband, Seth first. Then after the shortest courtship and engagement known to man, they got hitched. The boys are ten months old. Here we are at the pediatrician's office:



Daylen and Kai have been featured on several sitcoms and dramas. And who wouldn't take them? They are wonderful babies - very mellow, non whiners. Just absolutely delightful. They take to people very easily and I had a wonderful day with them.
Jaki is an amazing mom. She has managed to juggle twins, being a wife, best friend, avid volunteer at church and community levels, and on top of that she is still a fashionista. Amazing. Seth is awesome too, but I didn't spend the day watching him grocery shop, weave through traffic, listen to my life story and go to two doctor's appointments, or else I'd rave about him too.

Here's Kai. He loves his solids:



Children are amazing. They challenge are sense of logic, of what's right and wrong, and on top of that they're are investment into this world, with an ability to breathe change in every way. Just know that the older they get the more enigmatic they may become. Our upstairs neighbors have an 11 year old girl who is generally very normal. And not to say she's gotten weird, but she's grown into the habit of attaching various toys on a string and flinging them out from the second story window, these toys lifeless they lay:



But then again, don't we walk through so many moments of our life misunderstood, ignored and crying to be cradled?