3 hour naps are slammin'

Hey friends. I am ecstatic to tell you all that I am writing this post from our brand spankin' new, shiny green Dell laptop which should hopefully enable much more frequent posting. Old faithful was getting slower and slower to the painful point of death and we are very happy that he has retired and we are on to greener pastures. Literally.

Just a quick hello to say we're all alive and that Lucia is just waking up from a 3 hour nap. That's right, three hours, ladies and gents. Only took us 16 months to get here and we are loving every single snoozing moment.

Loads of holiday pics, videos and fun to come soon!

Updated photos/video

Some recent photos and videos for you!

Hanging out in the leaves:


Reading with mom:


A budding soccer star!


At the park:



Penguins!


My boots may be a little big, but my magnets are delicious:

Happy Halloweeeeeeeeen!

Sorry it's been so long, everyone... Here are a few photos of recent fun times with Lucy.

A very cute octopus! Here is Lucy with Aunt Patricia and then again with mom and dad.


A fun day in the park:

Touchdown, Bears!

Another day in the park with dad:

Enjoying a scrumptious red carrot from the back yard garden:

We will try to post more again soon!

Happy Birthday, Lucia!

Lucia turns ONE today (it's the 8th today, even though the post says it's the 7th)! Pretty exciting. We thought we'd post a couple videos to commemorate the occasion - the first one is what Lucy was doing last year around this time; the next is much more recent!



Click on this one to watch it on Picasa:

From 11 Months

And a couple photos for additional enjoyment:

I love grilled corn!


Thanks for the birthday cash, mom and dad.

thirtysomething...

Well, actually only thirty. We had a few people over a couple of weeks ago to celebrate a new decade of life for me (!) and our fabulous friend Daniel whipped out his fancy, 50-pound behemoth of a camera and got some great shots - thanks, D!

Future rocket scientist here loves the rind far better than the actual melon.


Wow do I see this face ALL the time - I'm glad to have it on film, thanks to Daniel's discerning eye.


Me and Colleen admiring the size of the butternut squash plant (aka JUNGLE).

Also, little naked boo is definitely a walking machine these days. She started taking a step here and there about a week ago and took off pretty immediately thereafter. She gets a little top heavy when she starts trucking but is highly skilled at catching the brunt of the falls on her padded diaper-bum. Such a talented girl. Shamefully, our camera got left at Patricia & Evan's house so we have yet to capture any video of the ambulatory queen, but rest assured, bloggable proof coming soon!

Naked Baby Alert!!!

Seems like when I'm on a bloggin' roll, I am on fire! And speaking of fire, it was in the high 90s in Chicago over the weekend (after a very cool past few months) and while Kyle and I were busy gardening on Saturday, Lucy got hot and started experimenting with the hose nozzle. The easiest thing to do was just to strip her down and let her get as wet as she liked, which of course warranted a capture on film. And a posting to the world wide web - do you think she'll ever forgive us when she's 16? But the video of her shrieking and chattering is too great not to share. The sound is a little crazy (our neighbor's air conditioning is ear splitting) but you can still catch the gist of the abounding joy!





Wet, naked and EXCITED about life!


And this one of Lucy at the pool with our friend Yoalix is just to prove that we do put her in a swimsuit on occasion!

Dirty laundry...

Here's attempt number 2 at the scampering laundry basket video... for explanation, see post below!