Pylonville again!

Pylonville again!, originally uploaded by kimathi_njeru.

Laila has her first teeth at 11 Months!

Yes.  It is true.  Finally!.

Laila now has two little teeth at the bottom peeking out and ready to bite.

I found it blog-worthy because of how late her teeth have come in compared to how early Luke's teeth came.

Luke had teeth at 4 or 5 months and by his first birthday he was mowing down solid vegetables with relish and abandon.  Laila on the other hand at 11 to 12 months is only getting her first teeth now but that doesn't stop her from attempting to eat anything and everything.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that the later teeth come in the more likely you are to keep them into your geriatric years.  Based on that, we can conclude that Luke will be a toothless old man and Laila will be eating sugarcane with her grand children.

Enjoy the weekend and we love you all!

Best Fathers Day Week Ever!

This week I attended 4 great musical events, surfed some pretty awesome waves and cooked breakfast steaks for my family.

I can't say enough about the joy in my heart.

The musical events were....

Alborosie at Brixton on Monday.
Passafire at Saint Rocke on Friday.
Luke Njeru at CCS on Friday.
Baaba Maal at Hollywood Bowl on Sunday.

Awesome!!

I hope all fathers and grandfathers had as awesome a fathers day week or day as I did.
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New Photos!

Mickey Lolipops, originally uploaded by kimathi_njeru.

In case you hadn't noticed, it has been a while since I last posted anything on the blog. I plan to make up for it.

This photo was taken at Disneyland where we celebrated Luke's 4th birthday. Click on the rest of the photos in the 2010 Collection to see what has happened since January.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimathi_njeru/collections/72157623113514639/

Laila started crawling forward!

Yes! You read that correctly. This week Laila started crawling forward. She doesn't move very far before she gets frustrated but she is definitely has the motivation to go forward!
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Picture of the Day

Imagine my shock yesterday when I was browsing through a Hermosa Beach article and photo journal when I saw my picture!

Apparently I made it to 'Picture of the Day' on November 27th 2009.  The fellow that takes these photo's is a local photo journalist and his shots sometimes get featured on the front page of a local daily magazine called 'The South Bay' or something like that.

Edit..this is the current link to the photo.

March scoop

March scoop, originally uploaded by kimathi_njeru.

I know it has been a while since I posted but life happens.

Lee of http://teamstoked.blogspot.com/ took this recently when I returned to my favorite spot this March for a much needed and very enjoyable session.

More updates as they become available.

USA 7 : Kenya Wins Day 1 Games

Kenya 35 Chile 5.
It was an electrifying game.

Kenya 17 Scotland 0
Oh my goodness!!

More tomorrow.
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vlog - Laila finds her hands.

Now you can tell the technology leap in the clips when you see this clip of Laila as she find her hands!

Notice how similar yet different the munchkins are at approximately 5 or 6 months.

Wowzer is all I can say.

Blogging or Vlogging?

I reached back into some archives and found some video footage of Luke at about the same age that Laila is.

Unfortunately, the quality is poor and the sound is lacking which tells another story about technology and time. You will understand what I mean when you see Laila's clip.

Enjoy the vlog as in video log.

New Decade, New Photos

Hi All.
I know it has been a while since I last posted anything.

It is a new year and new decade and it would not be right if i didnt upload holiday and new year photos.

So check out the December 2009 set and then go over the the January 2010 set.
Enjoy!

Real Estate on the moon.

DSC00699, originally uploaded by kimathi_njeru.

I plan on selling and subdividing the moon to interested investors.
Let me know if you are interested.

I took this photo a while back using a friends telescope and my camera. I thought it was quite striking and worth sharing with a little humor.

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

DSC00860, originally uploaded by kimathi_njeru.

How many kids can say they had 2 costumes this Halloween?

Paging Dr. Luke Njeru

DSC00820, originally uploaded by kimathi_njeru.

The picture speaks for itself.

New Photos of the Kids!

Hi All.
If you haven't already, please checkout the latest pictures on Flickr.

We have been fairly busy and I haven't had a chance to upload anything so please pardon the silence.

Enjoy and do leave comments. :-)
Love.
Smita, Laila, Luke and Kim.

WebCast Debut!!

Ray, one of the South Bay Bodyboarders in Manhattan Beach approached me about participating in a webcast.  I was honored so I did.

It was held at Manhattan Beach Pizzeria, a local pizzeria in Manhattan Beach a couple of weeks ago.

This happened to be episode 36 of this webcast called BodyBoarding Live and it was quite interesting considering the local cats that turned out.

One of the local bodyboarders, bloggers and photographer extraordinaire took some pictures and posted them on here on liquidplayground.blogspot.com.

It was interesting to see the brothers I surf with in normal clothes instead of wetsuitsor board shorts.  It was also more interesting socializing with them and finding out that they are also regular joes just like me looking to get amped and stoked on the next big ride while holding down a real job, business and family commitments.

Anyway, enough ranting and raving, here is the full link to the webcast.  If you cannot stomach the screaming music and other scenes, you can skip to the following section where i appear in momentary flashes.  @0:38,@16:10 and @45:57.  The choicest of all is my short but LOUD speech found @46:12

Enjoy!

A Cold day.

A Cold day., originally uploaded by kimathi_njeru.

No comment? That is quite alright.

Luke at Eva's Birthday

The photo speaks for itself.
Enjoy.
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More Surfing Pictures

If any of my previous surfing posts scared you, please exhale slowly.

I was paddling up to the rest of the guys this morning when one of them told me that he had seen some pretty neat pictures of me on http://teamstoked.blogspot.com/.

As you can imagine, I couldn't wait to see and share them.  All I can say is, I am glad I started going to this new spot(not-saying-where-so-other-surfers-don't-crowd-it) because it has elevated my riding abilities immensely.

Too much talking/writing...enjoy the pics and you can also get to them on my Flickr.

Yeah Baby!!!

Yeah Baby!!!, originally uploaded by kimathi_njeru.