Summer fun, part III

For the first two installments of summer fun, click on down the page... One more thing that Lucia loves - singing and dancing! Click on the picture below for a video:

From My Pictures

Summer fun, part II

Things Lucia loves:

Stomping in puddles...


Coloring...


Blueberries...


... and cake batter!

Summer fun, part I

Hi all,

Sorry it's been so long since our last post! We have been having lots of adventures lately - trips to see family in Atlanta and South Carolina, festivals and museums and parks in Chicago, and fun in the sandbox, pool and garden in the backyard... Here are some recent photos - and another couple updates should be coming today too.

At the zoo in Atlanta:


Helping Grammy water the plants:


Swimming with Gramps:


At the park with Mom:


Eating animal crackers with Great Grandmama:

showdown at the OK Corral?

That kitty looks fierce and I think she may be having a stink-eye staredown with Lucia? In which Lucy just might suffer a humiliating defeat!

park park park park and park

Going to the park seems to occupy a humongous portion of our time these days. We just returned from a fabulous trip to Washington DC to visit family and friends and this picture is just one of many outings to various parks in various DC spots. This one had a sandbox filled with toys free for the using by anyone - um, nice idea that I don't think would fly in our Chicago neighborhood!

more monday madness...

Park fun while Mom's at work, part two... Lucy with her famous scrunch face which we see ALL the time. Also known as "I am being a ridiculous ham, please laugh with me". Generally, successful at getting onlookers to revel in her merry mood.

Don't know how well you can see in this pic, but we're also starting to rock the ponytail-on-the-top-o-the-ole-head look because I was tired of hearing "eyes! eyes! eyes!" when her bangs were flopping around and blocking her vision. Cindy-Lou Who is getting some competition for the awesomest Who in Whoville!

the best thing about having a hip, i-phone toting babysitter...

is getting pictures like this in real time. This is Lucy and her friend Aubrey (our neighbor). Aubrey shares her awesome babysitter, Kristina, with us on Monday mornings and I go to work where I get delicious emails and texts updating me on what they are doing. Which I love, of course!!!