Mabel Molanphy

We went to the farmer’s mar­ket in Embar­cadero on a Sat­ur­day and Mabel heard this busker doing his thing. After drop­ping a dol­lar in his tip jar, she stood there and just could­n’t con­tain her dan­cies! Her lit­tle lati­na comes out every once in a while. 🙂

Mabel loves to dress up. Often she will walk into the room wear­ing the fun­ni­est things…like this bal­le­ri­na tutu around her neck. Some of them are def­i­nite­ly worth of cap­tur­ing on video – this is one of them.

This video is from May 2014. We were still liv­ing in Noe Val­ley where it was much sun­nier than where we are now. This is a “typ­i­cal” con­ver­sa­tion with Mabel, fol­lowed by a chal­leng­ing game of “I Spy.”

Just try­ing to catch up on videos we haven’t post­ed yet. This one is of Mabel explain­ing a draw­ing she made (and dec­o­rat­ed) while Rebec­ca was in SLC.

Er, that’s prob­a­bly the wrong sub­ject since I’m not actu­al­ly here to post the actu­al fes­tiv­i­ties. Just a note that I actu­al­ly *did* do some­thing for her birth­day. I was feel­ing bad­ly that I did­n’t make some awe­some cake, like Aunt Stephanie would have (bus cake, shark, “Grant” cake, etc, etc.) or have some super-cool soc­cer-fest like Aunt Melin­da. And if Uncle Steve were in charge? It’d be “Skate the Gold­en Gate” (a par­ty I’ve tried to con­vince David to throw for me…no luck). I’ve seen Tia Liza­’s pic­tures, and she goes all out, too!! But me? I go for the park and play­ground. A fenced one, at that, so the kids can run wild, require zero super­vi­sion by me, and let the par­ents hang-out and eat. Oh, yah, it’s fam­i­ly-style, so I don’t have to wor­ry about watch­ing oth­er’s kids. 😉

So, here’s the invi­ta­tions (I’m includ­ing last year’s, for a momen­to sake). Con­sid­er your­self invit­ed. Wish all our loved ones could be here, too!!