Sounds of Lucy, then and now

Our grown-up little girl...
We haven't posted in a while. I guess Facebook took us away for a while,
not to mention preoccupation with our job situations in the newspaper business.

Recently we fired up the old Olympus recorder and made a few new recordings, plus we uncovered some Lucy sound bites from a while back.

Among the highlights:

This one of Lucy saying the Pledge of Allegiance makes me cry she sounds so young. She was 2, and you can really tell how little she was.

Here's a recent rambling that includes the Pledge. She's 4 in this one. We call it "Crazy Pledge."

That girl

This was taken on our vacation,
and I really liked it.
Lucy had me curl her hair,
and it lasted for like 2 minutes
in the Hilton Head humidity,
but it was nice for a photo.
I told her she looked like
Mary Tyler Moore or Marlo Thomas.
She just smiled at me, like "Whooo?"
(Remember when the kids on
The Partridge Family used to do that
to Shirley?)

Fun in the sun

Lucy with Jake, the Salty Dog

The weather turned out great. Only one real washout day, and we just did some indoor activities (read: outlet malls). Tomorrow we head home, but we'll take back some great memories of our fun vacation.


Trying to avoid the wave of C-J layoffs...

Vacation greetings

Joe and Lucy, sunset at Harbour Town

We made it to Hilton Head on Saturday around 7 pm. I was excited about documenting Lucy's first time seeing the ocean. I was planning to shoot video, then some stills (or maybe give Joe the still camera while I shot video). Video, I thought, would be great because there'd be some squeals of delight from Lucy. Well...we had just gotten on the island when I turned on the video camera and it started eating my tape. Then it ate another tape. So, while we hadn't planned on getting another camera, we made a stop at Best Buy and picked up a new one. Pretty frill-less, but it works. I was stunned at the prices, though. About seven years ago when I bought the now-defunct cam, it cost around $1,200, I'm sad to say. The new one we bought: $279. We still needed to charge the camera, so we don't have any video of Lucy's first ocean experience, but we do have stills.



It was a beautiful day on the island yesterday,
and we took full advantage at the beach and pool.
Lucy was a bit miffed at the ocean waves splashing water
up her nose, but she loved the sand. And loved the pool here,
like she does at home. We got a lot of sun yesterday,
which is good, because the weather forecast
looks really bleak the next few days. Ugh.

Maybe we'll catch a ray here and there,
but otherwise I'm going to start Googling
rainy day activities in Hilton Head!










Lighthouse at Harbour Town


Lucy's first sight of the ocean. Our condo is in the blue/gray building.


Beach baby, beach baby...

Lucy's Independence Day

Well, it's Independence Day and we're expecting Lucy to celebrate her independence the same way she does every other day of the year -- by doing whatever the h-e-double hockey sticks she wants.

"Lucy, get in your car seat. ... Get into your car seat now. ... Lucy, either get into your car seat or we're not going to the zoo. ..." You get the picture.

We're hoping to go to the zoo today to see Dora the Explorer. We haven't told Lucy yet and we've been spelling alot of words lately. Don't want to get her hopes up after we hyped going to church outside last weekend (for the Archdiocese of Louisville's mass for its 200th bicentenniel) at Slugger Field. Mary Ann wasn't feeling well so we didn't go.

Hopefully the weather will hold out. If not, it will have been a big week for her anyway.


She was off school all week and Mary Ann and I were off work. On Monday, Lucy went to the Kentucky Gymnastics Academy all day, giving Mary Ann and me a chance to wax the hardwood floors. Do we know how to live, or what.

(At the end of the day, we've never seen Lucy so tired.)

On Tuesday, her friend, Lily, spent the day with us. Again, exhausted.

On Wednesday, I put asphalt sealant on the driveway. Then we went to the Oldham County Aquatic Center. It's a great pool complex. It's got the best kids' pool area I've ever seen. A huge spiral slide for the older kids, a lap pool and a diving board.

It was Lucy's first time at a real swimming pool.



She loved it -- except she didn't like the lap pool because it was too deep for her to put her feet down on the bottom.

Again, exhausted. (Me, not her)

Thursday, Mary Ann took the great pictures of Lucy celebrating the Fourth of July and we ran some errands. And we ate "at China," which is what Lucy calls all Chinese restaurants.

Friday, the Zoo, hopefully. Saturday, maybe Lucy's first baseball game at Slugger Field.

On the Seventh Day, we plan to do like the big guy, himself. Rest.

And Lucy will celebrate her Independence by doing whatever she wants.

Hellooooo!

Just a quickie to let you know we are alive and well.  :)

I have plenty photos to catch up on, and I'll do that really soon, but in the meantime we're enjoying a new bottle of Mr. Bubble for bathtime...

David Caruso is my wife's favorite actor

I'm serious. Every Monday, it's a race to the TV so she can see the opening of CSI Miami, which often has Caruso's best acting. Watch this montage; you'll see what I mean:


She particularly likes the way he puts on his sunglasses. Best acting since William Bendix.

Joe