Lucy is under the weather.

Lucy has had a temperature today of anywhere from 100-104 degrees. She's definitely not feeling too good. Here you can see Lucy as she tells me all about it- complete with red cheeks and rheumy eyes. We're hoping that after a good night of sleep and some Tylenol therapy, she'll be good as new by tomorrow. In the meantime, at least she doesn't have quite as much destructive energy...I don't know if I could handle a full-strength sick toddler. YIKES!

It's a very good thing Lucy doesn't live in a glass house...

Because, as it turns out, she loves to throw stones. Brian and I took Lucy to Alki Beach in West Seattle this past weekend when we had about four straight hours of kinda-sorta sun. Brian took some time out of his busy schedule to give Lucy a lesson on the ins and outs of rock throwing. She caught right on...as I'm sure you all could have guessed. In between throwing rocks, we explored a couple of parks along the beach and Lucy got to pet LOTS of ruff-ruffs, known to you and I as "dogs."

As usual, I am behind the camera, but rest assured I had a lot of fun too!

Lucy is very bouncy.

Today Brian and I took Lucy to this crazy place...basically a warehouse filled with inflatable play equipment. Lucy was pretty much in heaven. The temperature and sound level was more like parental hell. But, Lucy had a FANTASTIC time, and, honestly, so did we. Unlike the gymnastics place, this place actually lets the parents on the equipment, and Brian and I had just as much fun as Lucy.

I'm going to let these pictures speak for themselves, but do notice Pictures 4-6, that is a GIANT inflatable slide, probably about 2 stories tall. If you look on the bottom left on Picture #4, you can see the exit door, dwarfed by the super tall slide. Needless to say, Lucy "Danger Baby" Purcell was not the least bit intimidated.

Most of these pictures were taken in a long obstacle course, sort of like Baby Wipeout - you have to go over each inflatable obstacle to get to the next section, and some are separated by slides and whatnot.

Lucy wants you to know that safety is tasty.

Lucy is learning all about gravity.

What goes up...must come down. To my credit, I *tried* not to laugh. Good thing for us Lucy is made entirely of Danger, so stunts come to her naturally, and she is (thankfully) indestructible.

Lucy loves the fishies.

We took Lucy to the Seattle Aquarium this weekend. She's been before, but not since she learned to make a fish face and squeal FISHIES at the top of her lungs.

The important thing about this first pictures is the binky. Notice the binky in the water as Lucy leans over to pet the starfish and sea cucumbers and whatnot.

Now...notice the binky. Fish-water to mouth in one fell swoop. Also notice that neither of the "responsible" parents noticed this until AFTER we got home and reviewed the pictures. One day you're picking the binky up off the floor at Target, wiping it on your shirt, and shoving it back in....and one slippery slope later, it's fish-water and oblivion.

It was "Octopus Week" at the aquarium...so Lucy took advantage of the coloring tables to add her artistic flair to the community art project.

Lucy wasn't scared of the very realistic octopus legs. The picture can't portray her grunts as she tried to pull the whole display off the wall. Must. Destroy. EVERYTHING!!

What would be funnier than this picture would be one of the BACK of this cutout...so you could see Brian holding the back of Lucy's pants to keep her from running away while he balances on one foot and tries to smile at the same time.

Lucy pet the octopus stuffed animal. What they don't tell you about these exhibits...how to explain to your toddler that, actually, no...the stuffed animal will not be coming home with you. Also, it will in fact stay here, to be sullied by the sticky hands of the eighty gajillion toddlers who will pass through these halls in the next four minutes. Lucy was displeased with this plan. Very, very displeased.

I like this picture because it makes Lucy seem peaceful. Really she's probably performing a complex mental algorithm about the thickness of the glass vs. the hardness of her skull and what it will take to get to those FISHIES!!!!

NO NO NO MR. PURCELL - DON'T FEED ME TO THE LUCY!!!!

Lucy needs to put her feet up and rest a spell.

Today Brian and I took Lucy to the mall to play in the indoor playground. It was cold and rainy and horrible here, so needless to say we weren't the only people with that bright idea. It's also safe to say that between going to the mall, chasing Lucy around a playground with roughly 900BILLION other children, and then going up and down the escalator 40 times (NONONODON'TPUTYOURHANDINTHERE!), Brian and I both have PTSD. Lucy is the one that took time for a little rest though, in this very toddler sized lawn chair in the Housewares department at JC Penney. Sometimes a girl needs to take a load off, ya know??