Lucy's new "boat"

Cousin Kacey Dyer just sent Lucy a great present- but, as you can tell, Lucy seems to love the packaging and the "peanuts" the most. She also loves when mommy drives her around the house in this box and screams around the turns. Mommy, however, didn't realize how quickly that tires you out.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a great time at Papa and Nana's for Thanksgiving. Lucy posed for Christmas Pictures and loved Nana's hat. (Nana decided to give it to her, so now Lucy wears her hat around our house too.)

Massachusetts trip October 2007

We had a great time visiting with Grandma, Eloise, Auntie Amy, Uncle Loulou,Uncle Dave, Marcy, and the puppy dogs. Lucy loved seeing everyone and especially loved playing with pine cones and at the beach!





And we visited with Andrew, Elizabeth and their son Will. Will and Lucy had fun playing Grandma's autoharp. Once a teacher, always a teacher.




















And we celebrated Eloise's birthday- she's 2!!

Colorado

We went to Aspen, Colorado for Trey and Jen's wedding. Grandma came with us to enjoy the trip and hang out with Lucy while Heather and Gray did wedding "stuff". We loved Aspen, the scenery and wedding were beautiful, and we can't wait to go back. We hiked at the Maroon Bells in the rain (but still beautiful!) and Lucy got to take a little nap on daddy's back.

Halloween!

Lucy was happy as a lady bug this Halloween (at least for a little while). We didn't trick or treat this year, but we did visit the neighbors who thought she was adorable.

Apple Picking!

We had a wonderful time apple "picking" with Leslie, Cory, and Cade Peters in early October. Unfortunately, there were no apples on the trees in the NC mountains this year, so we had to make do with picking the bag of apples we wanted to buy after walking through the orchard.
Thanks for taking this picture, Leslie!

Playing with Nana and Papa

Lucy had a great time with her Nana and Papa last week (October 4th). She particularly loves running around in the front yard!



And showing off her belly button...

Straw

Thanks to Leslie Peters for sending us this photo from our lunch the other day. Lucy likes sipping water from a straw.

Lucy's 1st Birthday

A lot has happened since we last updated the blog. At the end of July Lucy started walking. As you can see in the video she's getting rather proficient. Now she's able to duck and evade Daisy's licks.

For her 1st birthday, we gathered at Nana and Papa's house with Lucy's Great Papa, Peter, Kim, Will and Hannah. Mommy provided a homemade carrot cake. It was so good Lucy's lucky she got first shot at it, because the rest of us ate it up!

Check out her new rocking horse which Papa made by hand!

Video update

Larry and Whitney tied the Knott

And we enjoyed the rehearsal dinner!

Summer

Sorry for the few weeks of blog silence. Here are some photos we hope you'll enjoy. Cousin Eloise was just here for a visit. Papa celebrated a big birthday on the 4th of July on Topsail Island!

Lucy is walking with minimal help from us or a chair or a dog. She's taken a couple of steps on her own, but hasn't tried to string more than 2 together into a strut before dropping back to her trusty crawl.

Still no teeth!

Scooting... Crawling... Pulling up... Soon to be walking!

Lucy is going through all of these stages so quickly, it's hard to keep up. I have great video of her crawling, but she'll be walking before I figure out how to post it. So, in the meantime I'll let you know that she is now crawling everywhere- beware leaving her in a room on her own. She also pulls up on anything she can reach. Her favorite things in reach are the laundry basket (which she also enjoys emptying) and her toy chest from her best buddy, Kjell. -By the way, she was smiling before I took this picture.-

Bethesda or Bust!

Over Mother's Day weekend, Lucy visited her Bethesda relatives (Nana's side) for the first time. She had a great time meeting everyone!

Great Aunt Lois

Lucy enjoys visiting her Great Aunt Lois who lives here in Charlotte. At her last visit, she was lucky to also see her cousin, Chip, who was visiting from China.

Little Drummer Girl

While I'm on a roll, I might as well put up these pictures of our budding musician. It turns out she liked to eat the "sticks" almost as much as she liked drumming. But, as her Papa Dyer said, she's just getting ready for the Davidson jazz band.

Messy face!

Lucy loves vegetables (at the moment more than sweeter stuff). We'll see how long this lasts- one reason she may love them so much could be the great mess they make when she rubs them all over her face.

Easter 2007

Lucy had a great time celebrating Easter Sunday at Nana and Papa's. She had a little Easter basket (no chocolate yet, though). I think her favorite thing was wearing her "easter bonnet" (she really does love hats!)

Enjoying an early spring!

Tuesday, February 27th was a beautiful day in Charlotte. Lucy decided to spend some time on the porch practicing her acting moves. She's developing quite a dramatic personality. If there are any talent scouts out there, she is demonstrating: the "southern faint," the "taunt," and the "how can you say no to this?" smile.

The other most important update in the life of Lucy is that her mom and dad have discovered that one of the most predictable ways to get her to giggle is to give her a big snore, a la Big Bird, that all of us born in the 70's will remember.

Bagel Spokesmodel

Thanks to Owen's Bagel & Deli for the great onesie. Lucy loves it!

Jolly baby sighting (above).

Baptism in great grandpa Chapple's gown

oh no! paparazzi!

Ok, maybe just one autograph. . .