December 19, 2008
Fenty Family Releases First Photo of Baby Aerin
Photo by Rick Reinhard, courtesy the Fenty Administration
The Fentys released this family photo, which is the first glimpse the public has had of baby Aerin, to the media late yesterday. Michelle Fenty gave birth to Aerin Alexandra Fenty on Nov. 24. It would be impossible for us not to speculate that young Aerin has her mother's hair, and not her father's.
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Congratulations! Who do they suspect the father is?
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Where did the kid's neck go?
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Wow, gave birth to a 2 year old....mature babies scare me.
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there is a picture of fenty with a 'fro on one of the mt. pleasant heritage trail signs, so there's proof that the man could grow it at some point...
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Lucy from the Peanuts cartoons called and she wants her dress back.
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I'm with you RJ. Nice dress. I do believe Aerin might have attended my high school's 1993 senior prom.
But congratulations to the Fentys!
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My favorite thing about this is that out of all the photos they undoubtedly took for this family photo shoot, they couldn't find one where either of the boys had normal looks on their faces.
Cute and endearing.
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2 year old? That baby looks like a shrunken adult. Kinda like the little dancing indian guy from that video...
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was this shot taken with a camera phone?
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Where did the kid's neck go?
Fenty let the kid get a little too close to uncle Marion. Apparently the neck is the most succulent part of an infant and hizzoner couldn't resist.
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How much for the little gurl?
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Come on, y'all...I dare you to all get out your 3rd grade pictures and tell me who *doesn't* look like awkwardness personified.
Enough about Fenty. Now, those boys of his...
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they should have playdates with the Obamas!
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What baby? I can't get past the teeth.
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If the three Fenty children were each a triathlon event, Aerin would be the swim.
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That baby has one heck of a head of hair!
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I hate to superficially ridicule, but I can't stop looking at the sleeves sticking five inches out of the jacket.
That hair is amazing, though. I think kids that look like adults are fricking adorable. Some day I hope to give birth to a baby with prematurely grey hair and I'll dress him in corduroy jackets with elbow patches and give him a pacifer shaped like a pipe.
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You all are AWFUL!
But it'd be a lie if I said I didn't laugh at some of these comments.
She's a cutie.
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Is that little baby Benjamin Buttons long lost sister Beatrice?
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his boys have teeth after my own heart.
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Actually, the son on the left with the blazer that's three sizes too small kinda looks like Anthony Williams.
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Maybe he should concentrate on the budget gap and trying, once again, to get the company he has personal ties to run the DC lottery, rather than taking photos.
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No one has mentioned how hot Mrs. Mayor is?
Fenty must have it going on in the pants, to keep that hotness so close.
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That baby has one heck of a head of hair!
Based on the haircut and her sullen expression, she would've made a great middle aged insurance adjuster for Halloween.
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It was just confirmed on The Onion that the baby's hair is from Chiapet. Cha cha cha chia!
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Fenty has a strained look on his face like... kid... if you obscure daddy one more time while he's getting his glamour shots.
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I think Fenty is creating his own Team Venture.
Check out the boys wardrobes. They're identical.
Go Team Fenty!
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Hillman, rumor has it the hotness ain't kept that close anymore. Unless you consider the Four Seasons "close."
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His boys look like Erkel.
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Toothsome grins, indeed. Attention, Fentys: please get some clothes that fit your children. Also, Aerin sounds like the name of a shoe, not a little girl. Oh, wait...
Srsly, a cute family! Congratulations are in order!
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From my mom, via email: "that baby doesn't look like a month old either.....very suspect. Still, who could not love a baby?"
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Does the mayor have nailpolish on his left index finger?
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his boys have teeth after my own heart.
Oh, so now the kids are organ-chewing cannibals? Notice the one on the left is stifling the urge to give you all the finger. He's a better man than I, and I'm a monkey.
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If you look closely you can see me hiding in the closet with my Pee-Wee Herman doll.
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But, meelar, she's a peanut. I was twice that size when I was that age. I probably would've eaten her.
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fnord.
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It's not a contest, Monkey. That could be painful. Or hilarious.
Can you imagine if we combined Deep and FREDTERP? Nonsensical comments with nonsensical sign-offs.
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Sense! We don't need no farking senses!
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see, i don't get it, deep. you just throw out these bizzaro comments that don't make sense in context of anything else here. you make far and away the least amount of sense of anyone who comments here.
That's because you Earthlings are stupid...stupid.
Artichoke!
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SARCASM may be the lowest form of wit, but scientists are using it to diagnose dementia.
Researchers at the University of New South Wales found that patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic.
The study, described by its authors as groundbreaking, helps explain why patients with the condition behave the way they do and why, for example, they are unable to pick up their caregivers' moods.
"This is significant because if care-givers are angry, sad or depressed, the patient won't pick this up. It is often very upsetting for family members," said John Hodges, the senior author of the paper published in Brain.
''(FTD) patients present changes in personality and behaviour. They find it difficult to interact with people, they don't pick up on social cues, they lack empathy, they make bad judgements,'' he said.
"People with FTD become very gullible and they often part with large amounts of money," he said, adding that one in 4000 people around the world are afflicted with the condition.
Researchers began studying the role of sarcasm in detecting FTD because it requires a patient to spot discrepancies between a person's words and the tone of their voice, Mr Hodges said.
"One of the things about FTD patients is that they don't detect humour - they are very bad at double meaning and a lot of humour (other than sarcasm) is based on double meaning," he said.
The research, conducted in 2006-07, put 26 sufferers of FTD and 19 Alzheimer's patients through a test in which actors acted out different scenarios using exactly the same words.
While in one scenario, the actors would deliver the lines sincerely, in others they would introduce a thick layer of sarcasm. Patients were then asked if they got the joke, Hodges said.
For example, if a couple were discussing a weekend away and the wife suggested bringing her mother, the husband might say: "Well, that's great, you know how much I like your mother, that will really make it a great weekend."
When the same words were delivered sarcastically and then in a neutral tone, the joke was lost on FTD patients, while the Alzheimer's patients got it.
"The patients with FTD are very literal and they take what is being said as genuine and sincere," Mr Hodges said.
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"No one has mentioned how hot Mrs. Mayor is?"
Uhh...how about Mr. Mayor himself?
And when his sons grow into those teeth/baby grows into that face-of-a-20-year-old...
its a good looking fam.
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econosize: it seems to me like deep and fredterp both have something akin to high-functioning autism.
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"Does the mayor have nailpolish on his left index finger?"
No. It's an injury.
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The Curious Case of Aerin Alexandra Fenty.
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econosize: it seems to me like deep and fredterp both have something akin to high-functioning autism
au....aut...autis.....autism...
Autie Murphy ....Auntie Mame...oh..tard...
You're calling us tards...Pop Tards. Why yes,
and we are delicious with coffee and ice cream.
Are you some kind of moderator? Like frying eggs on the radiator? See you later alligator.
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