Saturday, September 27, 2008

Visit from Sarah


One of my mom's favorite people came to visit. Sarah Valdez!
She's super cool and has a unique fashion sense inspired entirely by the Beastie Boys.
She served as my stylist during her stay in Denver.

Sarah & Jesper helped me get ready for my coffee date with Z.
In the photo above, not the Sarah-inspired
anti-establishment behavior as well as the yoga.

For more on this happy occassion, visit: http://gallegofamily.blogspot.com/2008/09/coffee-date-with-mia.html




Please come back soon, Sarah!

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Vintage Mia 2008

My first grape stomping experience! Totally weird. My mom and grandparents wanted me to stand in a cold mushy pile of merlot grapes and squish them. Normally, I'm all about mashing things and making messes, but I was not sure what to make of these old people asking me to do it so I tried to keep my feet as sparkling clean as possible and mostly played with the suds bucket instead of the grapes.

No worries, I'm sure that the mere proximity of my feet hovering above the grapes will make this year's merlot exquisite.






Monday, September 8, 2008

O Baby!

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Mama dragged me around all morning looking for celebrities during the DNC. We met up with LT & Z, too. I crashed out early and missed seeing the cool billboard behind me in this photo.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Hey Coach Medina, can you save a spot for Stretch on the team now?

Practice really does make perfect.

Early training footage:
http://picasaweb.google.com/annadomenico/MiaMovies/photo#5134052058009424098

August 2007:




Footage of this most recent practice was generously provided by the highly exclusive Cottontop Summer Soccer Camp in Boulder.

We hope this will convince Coaches Medina that Mia is, in fact, deserving of a spot on the soccer team. She's been shy about sharing her talents with the world until now, but the Olympics must have inspired her to go public.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Shoe skills

I've been working on my shoe putting-on skills for a couple of months now. Check back in August - I think I'll have it mastered by then.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

My Visit to Manhattan



Not only did I get to meet the bride, cousin Krissy, but I got to meet all sorts of other Kurtzes like Great Grandpa Lou and Great Grandma Gloria. I went to a wedding - love weddings - especially weddings where I can steal away to my hotel room for a quick nap and come back to find everyone still dancing.

I had quite a few firsts on this trip. First carousel ride. First time meeting mama's friend Andrea and her really nice man named Ben. They took some great shots of me - it's hard not to, I know, but Andrea has an artist's eye and she captured all of my many moods perfectly. She also introduced me to Korean food - sooo gooood!

I happened upon my first Pride Parade - very exciting stuff. Lots of colors and dancing and happy people.

The most memorable part for mama and dada though, was how quietly and demurely I sat and ate my spaghetti late at night at one of Midtown's best kept secret restaurants, Joe G's. The staff were just gaga over me - and who could blame them, I was a perfect angel. Then I fell asleep sweetly on the stroller ride back to the Dream Hotel. It's fun to fake out the parents like that every so often... While I did behave myself quite well, the remaining evenings in New York were more eventful for me and the parents and New Yorkers weren't quite sure what to make of our nightly bedtime walk on a Friday night on Broadway... THE Broadway. They weren't quite sure what to make of a man singing a lullaby to a sleepy baby on what's probably the loudest street in the universe. That's pretty cool - to be able to shock New Yorkers. I think I have a bright future ahead.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Escuola di Papa

I can read!
Seriously? Seriously.
There were a few naysayers when Papa Ben started me on my early reading curriculum.
Well, I forgive them. In time, I'm sure Papa Ben will, too.