Dresses

I was noticing the other day (and perhaps a few months ago) that Lucy doesn't have a lot of dresses. She has a few, but in most of her pics she's in play-clothes and they are definitely rough and tumble play-clothes. I thought it would be nice to showcase the few dresses she does own, and the fact that they are all from other people.

This little tie-die number is from Auntie Della (Duane added the bracelets and sunglasses for effect).

This is from her Auntie Gail, and comes with a cute little hat (said hat was pulled off her little head right after I put it on).

If I knew any German, I would insert it here.....but this dress is an authentic German dress from our friend Tracy. It is so dang cute.

Auntie Melita got this for Lucy's birthday.

Okay, now I'm reaching a bit. We've run out of dresses, so I am supplementing with swimwear. I think she looks beach-ready, and Duane put extra sunscreen on her nose for the "lifeguard look".


Here's a skirt. Sigh.

FYI: we bought a dress for her this weekend. It will make an appearance in the near future...

Lately

The weather up here is still a bit soggy, but we get outside all the time since it seems to be all that Lucy needs for pure happiness. Her excitement is catchy because we end up having a great time too!

Kicking the beach ball in Grammie and Grandpa's backyard.

She would kick the ball around and then plop down on the grass and giggle/look at the sky. It was pretty hilarious.

Contemplating life on the lawn. One can never start too soon...

Quick snuggle from Grammie. So nice!

Can someone please get me a latte? Seriously, I think I asked about 5 minutes ago.

Watching Dada throw some rocks (her fav-o-rite thing)

Either by sheer number or by their fun honking, the geese have won Lucy's affection. Now that the little baby ones are here, well, its a whole new level of cool.

Her peeps at Hicks Lake

Does pine cone beat rock?

This is a little park on "the main drag" in Harrison Hot Springs. For us locals, it's pretty quiet during the week so we take full advantage.

Lucy's First Easter

We woke Lucy up at the crack of dawn so that she could enjoy every moment of her first Easter. Yeah right--we would never wake her up early! Did you really believe me??

We filled her eggs with Lucky Charms, and it only took her a second to figure out that the colorful ones were delicious! After that discovery, she sat in a semi-zombie state, picking through her eggs until all of the marshmallows were gone.

It was kinda cute, and then it was kinda scary as the sugar high set in...

LL Crazy P

If she could talk, she would have shouted that Weebles are the bomb!!

We decided to go for a walk to diffuse some of the marshmallow crazies. It was a beautiful day! I put the exclamation because we have been wearing parkas and hats/gloves lately, not shorts. It felt great--like spring should.

Later on, Lucy got her party clothes on for dinner at Uncle Darrel and Aunt Jenn's house. Doesn't she clean up nice??

We had a delicious meal and a very fun day!

Birthday Partay!

After a year of fun and adventure, Lucy got to celebrate like crazy for her first birthday. She seemed to feel quite comfortable mingling and entertaining the guests. Here's a slice of our little sweet P's big day...

Showing Auntie Melita and cousin Vanessa how to drive. What a good hostess!

The Partay peeps

The Happy Birthday Song moment (aka: soaking up the attention). She's wearing a t-shirt from Grammie Penner--it was so cute we had to put it on STAT

Grammie, Duane and Lulu

We had to go outside and play in the rocks--her favorite new thing

I had to get a pic of the cake as I made it from scratch and put a little ladybug on top made of strawberries and olives. Don't call me Martha, but it was a proud culinary moment...

Present time! If you would, please look to the left and notice that cousin Audrey has Houdini-ed herself into the gift bag. Lucy cannot get enough of her hilarious cousin!!

Alright people, it's been fun but I need you to go home now so I can have my new loot to myself!

Smiles

It seems that most babies love to smile, and Lucy is no exception. Inspired by Shar and Kevin's blog (with Siena's smiles), here are a few gems from Lucy:

The early smile (9 weeks)

The scrunchy-face smile

The playful smile

The "I've got my pal with me" smile

The "I seriously love seagulls" smile


The "I've been promised a small crumb of this" smile

The first tooth smile (10 months!)

Reading with Lucy

Just like her Mama, Lucy loves to read books. Here's what it usually looks like...

Please read with me Mama! See the look on my face??

This is my favorite part--the monkey!


Ha ha--that monkey gets me every time.

I'm so sassy!

All of this reading has made me hungry! Anyone for tofu?

Just cuz'

Lucy got to see her cousins Dylan and Cody over the holidays; here were some of the captured moments:

Dylan, Lulu and Cody (right after we arrived in Vancouver)

Cody, giving Lucy a little welcome kiss (she was probably trying to bite him

as she was teething at the time)

He he he

I couldn't tell if Cody was in search of more presents...


...or if he was just trying to see if it would fit. :)

Lucy is wondering where Cody went so suddenly.

Cody was a great helper when it was time to feed Lucy. He especially liked the puffed cereal because he could give one to Lucy, and two for Cody, one to Lucy, five for Cody, one to Lucy, 6 for Cody...we had to relinquish his duties after a few rounds.

Dylan, Lucy and Duane

Who gave me this lid? Its just great!