LOVE ANGELES

Hola Baby Kolb Manterola

We are born whenever we are ready to be. We surrender openly, we give and receive gratefully and we Love Unconditionally. Birth is the miracle which ignites the purity within the hearts of each and every witness - truly a cause for celebration...

True happiness is directly proportionate to how much [Love] we share. When we find the Love within and live from Here, we realize our life as a gift to be shared...

The dance of two souls present in body and mind who first recognize the Truth within themselves and then soon recognize the Truth within all others and all nature.

When the conditions are just right they find one another and consciously choose to dance with one another as two wholes, casting away conditioning and roles, dependancies and expectations, creating and expressing the miracles of Love, the purposes of Life.

As in Life and Love, there is nothing to lose and everything to share...

Images via HOLA, quotes via FORREST

David Beckham, Posh Spice Expecting a Girl This Time?

Source: Miami Herald -  Victoria and David Beckham are expecting their fourth child. Will they get a girl this time? The soccer star and Spice Girl are parents to three boys: Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, 8, and Cruz, 5. Experts say - not surprisingly - that it's a 50-50 shot.

Congrats go out to the couple; they've weathered nasty infidelity rumors of late. In September, a Manhattan call girl said Becks had hired her services for $10,000 a night, a claim he vehemently denied.

Matt Damon's Wife Welcomes Another Girl

Source: US Magazine - Matt Damon and wife Luciana have welcomed another baby girl, his rep tells UsMagazine.com.

Their daughter, Stella Zavala Damon, was born Wednesday.

"My wife is about to have our fourth kid and we've drawn a line in the sand," he recently told Parade. "This is it. Our lives are full and wonderful and we're done having kids."

Married since 2005, the two are already raising three daughters: Isabella, 4, and Gia, 2, plus Luciana's daughter Alexia, 11, from a previous relationship.

"Lucy is in her third trimester for the fourth time and I think that's about enough to ask of any woman," Damon said. "I don't want to turn her into Ethel Kennedy," the political matriarch who famously bore 11 children. 

Added Damon, 40: "If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be number one."

Actor Kevin Costner Welcomes Seventh Child

Source: CBS - Oscar-winning director and actor Kevin Costner is a dad for the seventh time. Costner, 55, and his wife Christine Baumgartner, 36, welcomed their third child, a baby girl named Grace Avery Costner, on Wednesday, June 2.

Grace Avery arrived at 5:46 p.m. in California. She weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz., and was 21 inches at birth. The couple's rep tells People magazine that both mother and daughter are doing well.

The "Dancing with Wolves" star married Baumgartner, a German model, back in 2004. They have two other sons together - Hayes Loan, 16 months, and Cayden Wyatt, 3. Costner has four other children from a previous marriage. His eldest child is 25 years old.

Costner recently made headlines with his company, Ocean Therapy Solutions. BP officials agreed to test his company's oil-cleaning device, which could separate oil from water, as part of an effort to clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf.

"Babies" Watched by the Whole World

Source: CBS - If you're a mom, heck, if you're a human, "Babies" might be the ultimate feel-good film.

CBS News correspondent Tracy Smith reports the film chronicles the first year in the lives of four babies from four walks of life: Mongolia, Japan, Namibia, and the United States.

The idea was to make a wildlife film of sorts: just lock down the camera, and watch what happens.

"You can see them learning very little things like eating a rock," said producer Alain Chabat. "It's not good, I won't eat a rock."

While some may gasp at the ideas other cultures have of babyproofing - there is a unifying theme: love.

Every parent knows you put a kid in front of a camera and magic happens. But this is a 79-minute film with no big stars, no dialogue, no narration. So the question are babies bankable box office?

"People are wondering - are 'babies' the new penguins?" asked Entertainment Weekly's Jill Bernstein.

She's referring to "March of the Penguins," which won Best Documentary in 2006, grossing over $77 million. That film had more of a plot, but some say "Babies" makes up for it in cuteness.

"That baby doesn't know you're watching it and it's fascinating to watch a creature that doesn't know he or she is being watched," Bernstein said.

Thanks in part to a perfectly timed Mother's Day release, "Babies" has already gotten lots of attention: Newspaper headlines, a Facebook page, and over 400,000 hits on YouTube.

While it may not be able to take on that other film opening this weekend, "Iron Man 2," "Babies" does have a built in audience. Even Iron Man had a mother.

Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow

If you haven't heard of Gregory Colbert or 'Ashes and Snow,' be prepared to experience one of the most breathtaking works of art in modern times.

Source: Youtube - Gregory Colbert has used both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. His exhibition, Ashes and Snow, consists of over 50 large-scale photographic artworks, a 60-minute film, and two 9-minute film haikus.

This excerpt is entitled Feather to Fire, and is narrated in three languages by Laurence Fishburne (English), Ken Watanabe (Japanese), and Enrique Rocha (Spanish).

More information about Gregory Colbert and Ashes and Snow is available at www.ashesandsnow.com.

Better Birth Weight for Babies of Exercisers

Source: NY Times - Regular exercise during pregnancy doesn’t change a mother’s body weight but does lead to a small reduction in the baby’s weight, a new study shows.

The findings are important because larger birth size is associated with higher risk for childhood obesity.

In a randomized trial of 84 first-time mothers, participants were assigned to either an exercise or a control group. Exercisers rode stationary bikes for 40 minutes, five days a week, while the other women just maintained their regular activity. The women began exercising in the 20th week of pregnancy and continued until at least week 36.

The exercise didn’t make any difference in the mother’s weight compared with mothers who weren’t exercising. But among mothers who didn’t exercise, their babies were an average of five ounces heavier than babies born to women who exercised during pregnancy. There also was no difference in the average length of the babies, according to the study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

The study shows that moderate, regular aerobic exercise can have a meaningful effect on a baby’s birth weight without putting the pregnancy or child at risk.