Yo paresco una dectective con mi lindo vestido.
I think I look like a detective with my cool dress.
Mi Bisabuelita le gusta que vista de rosado.
My greatgrandma loves me in pink.
Tia Doris me siento y me miro fenomenal en la ropita que me regalastes... gracias!!
Aunt Doris, I look and feel so good in this outfit... thanks!!
Here I am with grandma Elizabeth.
Aqui estoy con my abuelita Elizabeth.
Me gusta jugar con mi Abuelo al caballito... me hace reir mucho.
I like to play horsy with Grandpa... it makes me smile a lot.
Mis queridos Bisabuelitos... me cantaron y jugaron mucho conmigo.
My sweet, sweet great grandparents... they sang and played a lot with me.
Aqui yo estoy sonriendome porque pude levantarme yo sola.
ho no!!! Tia Nydia me esta tomando fotos otravez.
Melissa and Maya are away this week in Miami visiting with the Honduran/American sides of her family: parents, grandparents, family, list of girlfriends, Melissa's parents place in Broward. As I'm working, I was unable to take off but I have been able to catch up on a little night reading. Here's detail of a profile of the young Arthur Rimbaud by Henri Fantin-Latour, "Un Coin de Table", 1872. Rimbaud's got that dreamy look in his eyes - young poet. This painting's kept at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris - I've never been but hope one day I will have the chance to visit - hopefully with Maya.
I like to lie on the persian carpet and read daddy's books.
Hey, who's that spying? Can't you see I'm trying to read!
I should take a break and play with mommy and my fluffy dogs. Hmm, if daddy has more time after work, I'll tell him the interesting things I found if he takes us for a walk in the stroller.
Didi and Maya sat around our back porch getting to know birds, dogs, cats and squirrels.
The family adjusts to the new Sherpa snugli.
Baba and Maya hold each other in their favorite position - cheek to cheek!
Fluffy dogs, toy pianos, new dresses - hooray! We also took baby to Church for Christmas!
Who is going to help us change Maya's diapers and how can daddy and mommy go to the movies now that baba and didi are gone? Hopefully, we will visit together again soon.
Over the holidays Maya enjoyed learning to eat with a spoon. As you can see with baba and mommy's help she took to it like a real pro!
Here's Maya mastering the art of posing and putting a spoon in her mouth!
She's almost got it and becoming a real natural - better than the Gerber baby!
Over the winter vacation we took Maya to the Pensacola art gallery. They had a show of Tiffany lamps! Here is Maya modeling under one of the Tiffany's.
We also took Maya to the show of twentieth century masters from the Cochran collection on display. They had Warhol's and De Koonings and Hockney and even Dali's optical illusion of Lincoln. Maya Loved it! This painting is alternatively called "Gala looking at the sea".
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Maya loves to wear the Mexican Mayan dress we bought her from the ancient Mayan City of Tulum.
Sometimes she is a very serious baby.
Contemplating sun's rays or to whom she gives her heart?
Mayan Glyphic Writing (Left) and Mayan Glyph "Hunab Ku"(right). According to Mayan calendars on October 21, 2012, there will be an astronomical alignment of our sun and center of the Milky Way which will culminate on the winter solstice, December 21, 2012. On this date, the tail of the shadow serpent descending the northern steps of the pyramid at Chichenitza will be pointing exactly to the Pleiades star cluster which will be located straight over the structure.
As Melissa and I just returned from our Costa Maya trip, we were surprised at our old guide's photographic pictures of the precise solar alignments with the buildings architecture which occured on the winter solstice. Astronomers, architects and mathematicians were working toegher in a very organic and synergistic way with builders and the wider environment
The Mayas seemed to tie a lot their philosophy to what they observed in the heavens. They thought that the center of our galaxy was a "Cosmic Mother Womb" that gave birth to our world which went through cycles of birth, death and rebirth. October 21, 2012 will end one cycle and begin another. Perhaps this will be the time to visit Chichen Itza with the family for another vacation.
This weekend Melissa and I went to see Mel Gibson's Apocalypto for the opening night premiere. Apocalypto is a fascinating, beautiful, somewhat disturbing but also deeply metaphoric and realistic portrayal of the Maya shot incredibly and entirely in Yucatec Mayan. The landscape of the rainforest civilization is sublime. The movie begins with the quotation "A Great Civilization is not Conquered from Without Until It has Destroyed Itself from Within" (Will Durant).
I am currently finishing Micheal Coe's Breaking the Maya Code and about a quarter ways through Arthur Demarest's "Ancient Maya: The Rise and Fall of a Rainforest Civilization". Synergies.
