Lucy will take care of your baby.

Well, no one said she would be good at it.

Just kidding. Sort of. Lucy got a grocery cart with a baby seat in it for her birthday and it has become her new favorite thing. The baby seat is removable, which not only allows Lucy to haul the baby INCLUDING THE SEAT everywhere she goes, but to sometimes leave it forlornly sitting in the middle of the park like some kind of post-apocaplyptic Playground of Abandonment.

These pictures are of Lucy showing Baby (sidenote: look at us thinking of these clever names!) the wonders of our local playground. I personally think Baby is PARTICULARLY enjoying the teeter-totter.

Lucy loves booberries!

Brian and I took Lucy to the U-Pick Blueberry Farm today. This is pretty much like heaven for Lucy, since she eats roughly 6.3 metric tons of blueberries each and every day. She's our secret weapon really...she stripped the plants clean like a blueberry locust. The funniest part of the whole day is that, after all our hard work picking blueberries, we left the bag on top of the car when we drove off. Good thing Lucy enjoyed them while we were there!

Lucy Jane Knievel

Lucy is a daredevil. Brian is her enabler. Both of them are trying to give me a heart attack.

Lucy is almost 2!

Lucy will be 2 next Saturday, so in honor of her upcoming birthday we took her to the mall (OMG - why do we do this to ourselves??) for a photo shoot. The pictures confirm that she continues to be totally cute, but cannot begin to portray how insane a couple of hours at the mall on a Saturday afternoon in a photo studio dedicated to kids portraits can really be. Here's a few of the thumbnails they gave us...so adorable!

Lucy is...kind of a real kid now.

I mean, don't get me wrong, she was always "real." But now...she's just such a big girl. She will be 2 years old next Saturday and she's got this huge vocabulary, including "Adios!" and, if she hears you sneeze, "Zune....heit." She's very into Mickey Mouse, known around here as "MICKEY MICKEY MICKEY" and loves to read books and play with her baby doll, whose name is apparently "Mine!" Anyway, I just love this picture of Lucy going out to tackle her day, complete with pigtails and sippy cup. Next thing you know she'll be leaving for college.

Lucy is impervious to cold.

Because this is Seattle, we take our children to the beach when it is 60-degrees and let them swim in 50-degree water and just basically try to ignore the blue lips and shivering because, hey, it's "summer!" A couple of weeks ago Brian and I took Lucy to the beach on just such a day. Although her lips did, in fact, turn blue, and there was shivering aplenty, Lucy didn't let it bother her and spent quite a bit of time standing in the water throwing rocks with Daddy. I just love these pictures. Brian is such a fan of the ocean, and it's apparent that Lucy has inherited the gene...it's possible her real mother is a polar bear though.

Lucy loves the beach!

Lucy took Brian and I to Port Townsend for the weekend. 2 ferry boat rides, 100+ miles of driving, 1 night in a hotel populated entirely with bikers and miscreants and 3 separate trips to beach. Not priceless unfortunately, but fun nonetheless. More so if you love to hear people screaming "LUCY NO! DO NOT TOUCH/EAT/RUN INTO/JUMP ON THE DOG/WATER/SCARY BIKER/CLIFF/ROCKS/PRECIPITOUS LEDGE!!"

Also, please notice a) Lucy driving the pirate ship (we're pretty sure she's found her calling...plundering, pointing out items loudly, and shiny stuff...check, check and check), and b) Lucy taking her shoes off for approximately the 90 Kajillioneth time in two days...if only it wasn't "cruel" to "hot glue" shoes to "baby feet." Sigh.