Spring Break

Milesʻ 1st spring break and it started off right with Hiphop weekend to the max. While Jus and I had gigs Friday night, he got to spend the night with nanay & papo. Darrien was off chillinʻ in Hawaii (the place to be for spring break!) but he had a lot of fun hanging out with his grandparents. The next day, he got to go digging with his dad and Uncle Lean who came from Miami for the Renegades 25th anniversary jam. Saturday was the jam so Miles got a chance to go off after he warmed up to the club full of hundreds. Oh by the way, it was his first time to be in a club! Haha...the jam was actually held at city nights, mommyʻs first 18 & over club in SF. Anyways, Miles got to show off his styles and before you know it there was paparazzi gathering around him as he got on the good foot. He was so excited and surprised to see his ninong Dre and Uncle Arjuna. After a long day of sweaty Bbboys and Bgirls, battling, and breaks, we headed back to Vallejo to sleep at nanayʻs house while they were in Vegas. Sunday was full of more fun cause his Uncle Ron and Aunty Rachel aka Kid dragon & DJ Raichous kicked it at the pad and spent some time skratching and dancing with Miles. When they left for SD, Miles was wondering where did all his cool uncles & aunts go?!

Miles is so happy to be home, playing at his playground, sculpting his playdoh, and shooting imaginary guns.

We had to hide the transformer cartoon with all that shooting goin on. it didnt help that i have a hoodie with gun prints. he got all excited when i wore it, now that he realizes and knows what guns are. he was like, "mama! got guns?!" then he pretended to pick the little guns off my hoodie and shoot me with it! maybe i should just put that hoodie away but it is my favorite one! :( the compromises we make for this lil guy.

Thursday is our FRIDAY!

I should be studying for my BIG BIO exam next week, or writing my research paper for Sociology but here I am, procrastinating. Today's our Friday but studying never ends for me. I have been feeling so overwhelmed with school & education planning--I WISH it could all be a little easier. But I learned today that mercury is in retrograde which I'm sure is one of the reasons why I am feeling so off balance and crazy. I wish I could just play with Miles all day and then go skratch at night as a career. Life would be so simple and so sweet. I'd say that Oprah is the one with it all but now that I think of it, she doesn't have a MILES. She's the one missing out, really.

Anyway, today the Cadabes Crew celebrated our "Friday" by doin the suburban thang...going to the mall. Oh yes, what a highlight.


Miles got to ride the carousel 2xs--and hang out with the Easter Bunny. He was so fascinated by this 6" bunny, being hypnotized by the egg that the bunny was waving to him as bait. Funny thing was that I think the bunny lost patience cause Miles was super cautious, literally inching slowly towards the bunch, inch by inch. He barely picked his feet off the ground. Miles even wanted to take a picture!

When we got home, Miles wanted to play dress-up and put on what he calls his "Chinese dragon" clothes. He remembered what the outfits looked like--on the guys controlling the Chinese dragon in SF. He was so happy to be wearing the silky pants and vests. Oh i got a good laugh. It was so cute. And I still remember when his gamma bought it for him--he must have been 2 months old! He looks like a little prince, the golden child!




Oh, and here's him playing dress up earlier this week. It was Halloween in March!

De-de cup

On Friday after visiting Uncle Ruben, Miles got to have a late night playdate with his homie, Jayden, 18 months--he's such a cutie with a raspy, big voice. Sabrina, Jayden's mama, was telling me how she weaned him off the bottle at 12 months. I was pretty impressed! I mean, Miles was already 2 and I still had him on his bottle aka de-de (pronounced deh-deh). Anyways, I left feeling inspired to get the boy off the bottle (yeah, finally right!?). I guess we had him on his bottle still cause we didn't have a problem with him drinking from it really. We didn't have any issues with him and his de-de since he only really drank from it once at night and maybe in the morning if he asked. We knew he would have to stop using it soon but it was just a matter of when we would intervene (in de-de prevention). I guess we didn't see anythang wrong wid partly because it was one of the last remnants remaining from his baby year--our baby year. I still see him as a baby. But in comparison to Jayden who is already off the bottle, I was thinkin, "Yo! Hello! He ain't no baybay!" I really need to check myself and not be indenial of anything so early on! Hehehe...So anyways, that night, he cried a bit when I offered him his sippy cup with soy milk but he took it, being too tired to argue with us. The next day, I explained to him about how baby Ayana, needed his bottles more than him since he was a big boy and doesn't need bottles since he can drink from sippy cups. He totally agreed, wrapping his bottles up in tissue paper, sticking it in a box. He even colored on the box and drew pictures of his de-de and a picture of milk for Ayana to know what was inside (of course, his de-de drawing looked more like a curved line and the picture of milk looked like a long straight line). Anyways, he helped tape up the box and then he parts with it, "bye bye de-de! Baby Ayana's!" Justin makes it seem like he is going out to give it to Ayana who we pretend is waiting outside for her gift from Miles. After that, Miles was real cool about not havin his bottle. Last night, I handed him his sippy cup when he asked for milk and he remembered, "No more de-de. Miles gave it to Ayana."

In a few weeks, let's hope this works with his pacifier aka nappy!!!