Ambitious Girl...

🤎 Ezinụlọ anyị 2022 🤎 We’re here, we’re healthy, we’re home! Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a blessed holiday season! Ni ife, The Ekenes #BlackFamily #IgboFamily #YorubaFamily #NigerianFamily #BlackLove #Blessed #TheEkenes (at Decatur, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmg5jVagWPB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask "What if I fall?" Oh but my darling, What if you fly? ~ Erin Hanson We celebrated my bestie’s 35th birthday at her @kidsgymusa fundraising mixer. The feeling of watching your friends fly is as joyful as flying but even better because you know you’ll never fly alone! I’m so proud of Eunice and admire her and Brent for their intentionality to lift as they fly high! Eunice centers family and community in everything she does and does so with such intensity and passion. Eunice sets a great example of lifting as you climb for the youth and her peers. She reminds us that failing is only an opportunity to attempt to fly again and again. What a beautiful and inclusive way to mark 35… I’m always in awe of you Eunice, you collectivist Beautiful Black Queen! #BestiesAndTheirBirthdays #ThisIs35 #FundraisingMixer #KidsGymUSA #BirthdayFundraiser #Flying #LiftAsYouClimb #BlackCommunity #BlackFamily #BlackLove #BlackExcellence #AtlantaLove #HUlove #HowardTaughtUs #HappyBirthday (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck6Sbp9AkUl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

One Love, One Heart… Let’s Get Together and Feel Alright! #OneLoveDili Thanks to our village for joining us for Dilichukwu’s One Love celebration! We’re sure Dili felt the love and confirmed that he isn’t about the smash cake life! 😂🤣 Let’s do it again in a few years!! 🙌🏾❤️💚💛 #OneLove #BabysFirstBirthday #DiliTurnsOne #OneYearOld #BabyParty #AfroCaribbean #AfroBeats #Reggae #BobMarley #FelaKuti #BlackBoyJoy #BlackFamily #AfricanBoy #NigerianBoy #IgboBoy #YorubaBoy #AfricaCentric #BlackCentric (at Decatur, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkWNhRSgRU3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The joy of my world is 1 years old today! The past 365 days have been filled with indescribable love, joy, happiness and peace because you exist, my Dilichukwu. Your birth is my rebirth and your life is my legacy. I wish you all of love, joy, happiness, and peace you give the world ten fold! Happy Born Day to you… to us! At 12 months we’re walking… ambitiously! We’re toddler status! Our food and sleep schedule is a coin toss, and our personality involves lot of fuss. 🥴😂🤷🏾‍♀️ This is our last monthly update so family/framily check-in on y’a Dili (and his parents 😂🤣😭) offline. We’re celebrating 🥳 this Saturday! Stop through the crib and show our Dili some ONE LOVE!! 🙌🏾 #12monthsold #12monthspostpartum #DiliDeux #Ekenedilichukwu #Dilichukwu #Dili #BeautifulBoy #Toddler #BabeEkene #AfricanBoy #NigerianBoy #IgboBoy #YorubaBoy #Summertime #BlackBoyJoy #OneLove🤎👶🏽🤎 10.25.22 #NeverBeenLoveLikeThisBefore #ThankYouForChoosingMe #MySeed #MyLegacy #JoyOfMyWorld https://www.instagram.com/p/CkKJdfzASJh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Blackness & Joy : THEE Black Family Reunion at The Mecca! My #HU2010 class came back for everything 2020 kept us from… Happy 10th Anny! Y’all my favorite love language! 💙❤️ May we never live the experience down! #HUHC #HUlove #HowardUniversity #1867 #HilltopHigh #HowardAlumni #HU2010 #HU10 #BisonX #10YearAnniversary #BlackJoy #LiberatingBlackMinds #NurturingBlackCreativity #NeverLostAparty #LovingBlackPeople #TheMecca #MyHU #BlackLiberation #BlackLove #BlackFamily #Blackness #AfricanDiaspora #BlackLivesMatter #AllBlackLivesMatter #BlackJoy (at Howard University) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkHxKyJA9BM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The face of an 11 month old who is over these monthly posts🗣😂😂🤣🤣😭😭 ✊🏾🙌🏾 Happy 11 months, Dili Baby.. One Love up next! 🙌🏾 We’re flexin’ our personality! We’ve joined the spicy food gang 🔥🤪😅😂. Our call & response skills are loading. We’re balancing and preparing to walk it out! We’re almost 1! #11monthsold #11monthspostpartum #DiliDeux #Ekenedilichukwu #Dilichukwu #Dili #BeautifulBoy #Infant #BabeEkene #AfricanBoy #NigerianBoy #IgboBoy #YorubaBoy #Summertime #BlackBoyJoy #OneLoveLoading🤎👶🏽🤎 https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci81gDQAPsc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

We’re raising Africans over here!! ✊🏾🙌🏾 Happy 10 months, Dilichukwu!! 🇳🇬 We started daycare! We’re waking & risin’ up in the crib on our own (we need to lower the bed 🙃). We’re bussin’ down food like a champ. We’re adding new moves to our active lifestyle each day. We still soaking up the last bit of summer fun! #10monthsold #10monthspostpartum #DiliDeux #Ekenedilichukwu #Dilichukwu #Dili #BeautifulBoy #Infant #BabeEkene #AfricanBoy #NigerianBoy #IgboBoy #YorubaBoy #HotBabySummer #Summertime #BlackBoyJoy #AnkaraIsLife #Dashiki #Djembe #DrummerBoy 🤎👶🏽🤎 https://www.instagram.com/p/Chrzq5ygMch/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust." ~ bell hooks "Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real." ~ James Baldwin Our union turns 9 today! The past year has been full of joy and growing pains. The challenges with our identity struggles are parallel with our ongoing lover’s war. But gratefully the challenges bring us closer to the liberation we seek and need to be our highest and best selves. I revel in the growing pains because that is the space where we will find, stretch, and sustain real love and partnership. I celebrate our joy as I celebrate our growing pains. Thank you, Kennedy, for the joy of giving life and raising our son together and for the growing pains of what it takes to sustain the essence of love: the consistent combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, trust (and then some). Thankfully we centralize and work at the love (passion and friendship) and we pray. What a time we’ve had in 9 years and what a time we have to come! Happy 9th Anniversary, Big Dili… cheers to more US! #LoveJoy #LovePain #LoveGrowth #BlackMagicLove #BabyRaisingLove # #StillMarriedAF #August2nd #MarriageAnniversary #OurLoveIsNine #TheEkenes #OgunjobiEkeneGang #aYorubaIgboLoveStory #aNigerianAmericanLoveStory #MadeInSenegal #ElevatedLove #NigerianLove #BlackLove #OurLove #LoveIsJoy #LoveIsABattle #LoveIsAWar #LoveIsGrowingUp #LoveIsUs #LoveIsPartnership #LoveIsCoparenting @coach_kennedi https://www.instagram.com/p/CgxM5fMAc4M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

9 months and we get active lil baby!! We got our two front teeth 🦷 ! We’re eagerly eating food (finally 😅)! We’re mobile with a crawl or walker support . We enjoyed our first rounds of Daddy Daycare while Mommy traveled (we support healthy and balanced life for parents). We loved our first overnight stays away from home with the family! #9monthsold #9monthspostpartum #DiliDeux #Ekenedilichukwu #Dilichukwu #Dili #BeautifulBoy #Infant #BabeEkene #BlackBoyCrawl #EatBabyEat #GrowBabyGrow #FirstOvernightStayAwayFromHome #FirstTimeAwayFromBaby #HotBabySummer #Summertime #BlackBoyJoy #ActiveBaby #WeOutside🤎👶🏽🤎 https://www.instagram.com/p/CgcTRxAgkfp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Lion King prepared me for this moment … my inner child beams! #Kenya #EastAfrica #Mombasa #MassaiMaraNationalPark #Safari #AfricanSafari #KenyanSafari #Wildlife #BigFive #UglyFive #Lion #Elephant #Leopard #Zebra #Wildebeest #Gnu #Warthog #Vulture #Giraffe #Baboon #Gazelle #LionKingLiveAction #CBBtravels #ICPtravels #EverywhereInAfricaIsOnMyList #TravelNoire (at Masai Mara National Park Kenya) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgXl7VjgYV8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Jambo Kenya 🇰🇪 #Kenya #EastAfrica #Nairobi #Wildlife #Giraffe #GiraffeCenter #Mombasa #MaasaiTribe #MaasaiWarriors #MaasaiWomen #CBBtravels #ICPtravels #EverywhereInAfricaIsOnMyList #TravelNoire (at Kenya(East Africa)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgUu1eIg-Zn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Ada was my favorite new experience in Ghana! @nkyinkyim_museum is doing healing work through art and the island vibes were refreshing! 🇬🇭 #Ghana2022 #SmallPlateOfGhanaJollof #ICPtravels #CBBtravels #Ada GhanaBlackStars #BlackStarPower #WestAfricanLove #AfricanFineNeverDisappoints #NkyinkyimMuseum #IslandsVibesInGhana (at Ada, Volta, Ghana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgPmgN2Klv0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Ghana, the Akwaaba is always sweet o! 🇬🇭 #Ghana2022 #SmallPlateOfGhanaJollof #ICPtravels #CBBtravels #Accra #CapeCoast #GhanaBlackStars #BlackStarPower #NigeriansInGhana #WestAfricanLove🇬🇭🇳🇬 (at Accra, Ghana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgOrckggFRZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Oh yes I love her like Egyptian! 🇪🇬🐪 👑 #GizaPyramids #ICPtravels #Egypt #Cairo #EverywhereInAfricaIsOnMyList #NoireTravel #7thWonderOfTheWorld #AncientWorld (at Pyramids Giza, Egypt) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgHMmDdgfFl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

We need JOY as we need air. We need LOVE as we need water. We need EACH OTHER as we need the earth we share. ~ Maya Angelou #JoyIsMine #IamLove #Collectivism #WeAreEachOthersBusiness #BlackLove #BlackJoy #HealedGirlSummer #HappyGirlSummer #WineFine (at Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfWccmfAJ6r/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

A just because weekend with my girls… just because our love is deep, just because our banter is hilarious, just because we love with intention & consistency, just because our fine is divine, just because iron sharpens iron, just because we’re everythang, and just because we’ll always be US! #JustBecause #BestieWeekend #VineyardCrawl #ParlayInVA #WineFine #Hiking #GirlsTrip #Bestfiends (at Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfTzzp3gpzG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Has it been 8 months already? Our Dilichukwu is rising! #RaisingDili We are solo flipping, rolling, sitting up, standing, and parlayin’ on every scene. We are sleeping in our own bedroom with no fuss. We enjoyed our first music festival 🎵, first flight ✈️ , and first cross country trip to Southern California. We sea 🌊 why beach 🏝 is life and we’re soaking up summertime! #8monthsold #8monthspostpartum #DiliDeux #Ekenedilichukwu #Dilichukwu #Dili #BeautifulBoy #Infant #BabeEkene #BlackBoyFly #CaliforniaDreaming #CaliforniaLove #BabyBed #GrowBabyGrow #FirstFlight #FirstFestival #FirstCrossCountryTrip #BabyTravel #BabyVacation #FamilyVacation #HotBabySummer #Summertime #BlackBoyJoy 🤎👶🏽🤎 https://www.instagram.com/p/CfOrjhws2Yt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=