“Someday I’ll be four!”
– the first words out of Lucy’s mouth one morning
“Poopy old man!”
– Lucy talking to Wubie
“I feel refreshed and ready for anything now!”
– Lucy after pretending to nap for a few seconds
“Let’s make one side of the floor rainbowy colors, because girls like rainbows!”
– Lucy throws out marketing ideas while creating a “store” with her blocks
August is done, finito, history, so last month. Here’s an end-of-the-month post/collage to commemorate its passing. Some stuff from the past month August, 2010:
“I can dance beautifully—and that’s why I’m a cool ballerina.”
– Lucy, describing her dancing style.
“Some of the ballerinas are nighttime ballerinas and some of the ballerinas are cat-toy ballerinas and some of the ballerinas are friendly ballerinas. I’m a princess ballerina.”
– Lucy, explaining the various types of ballerinas.
“What are you doing here, Wubie? Screwdrivers are not for cats!”
– Lucy, instructing Wubie to stay away as she tries fixing the fridge handle.
Can ya believe it’s August already? Sheesh. Since July’s in the books, here’s an end-of-the-month post/collage about it. Some notable happenings from July, 2010:
Lucy participated in her first Bon Odori. Pictures | Video
Here’s the latest episode of our “Life with Lucy” series, where I post a video collage of pics and video snippets from the last six months. (A picture collage can be found here.) Previous “Life with Lucy” installments:
We had an interesting fourth of July weekend, though not in the best of ways. Wubert had been under the weather lately, so we ended up taking him to the vet a couple of times over the weekend. Fortunately, the old guy is doing better now and is getting back to his normal vocal self.
We managed to catch a fireworks show in Milpitas. Though Lucy enjoyed it, I think she had more fun dancing on top of my car trunk during the show!
Actually, that’s another benefit about having a beater as a car; a 3.5 year old can form her own mosh pit on it and I don’t even care (though I did make sure she didn’t break the rear windshield—I don’t want my car to look tooSanford and Son-ish!) She also got a kick out of trying to name the colors she saw in each aerial explosion.
Once we got back home, Lucy immediately checked on Wubie to make sure he was OK. He was. It’s about 2 am right now and it sounds like the three of them (Jill, Lucy, and Wubie) are engaged in a snoring and wheezing contest in the next room. Everyone’s OK for now and tomorrow is a day off. These are the good times.
With June now over, I thought I’d make a post about it. In addition to the obligatory end of the month collage (above), here are a few notes from the month of June, 2010.
A few Lucy quotes from June:
“That’s Wubie, flowers, bunnies—and me, your little child.”
– when referring to my Father’s Day card.
“The bug on the windshield is crying”
– an observation while riding in the car
“Let’s walk over here Daddy, away from that obnoxious noise!”
– when coming across some city workers breaking up the sidewalk
“Let’s watch something bundley!”
– when requesting some TV time
Speaking of TV, we downgraded our Comcast cable subscription. Jill and I had actually discussed completely dumping cable a few months ago. At the time I said “Let’s wait until ‘Lost’ is finished. Well, Lost ended in May, so I finally got around to calling up Comcast last week.
When I told them we wanted to dump our cable (along with our landline phone), I was told that internet access by itself would cost about $60 a month. However, internet access plus a basic cable package would be about $52 per month. So, I took the $52 deal. So far we haven’t missed it. I’ll probably write up a more detailed post about this sometime in the near future.
Here’s a belated requiem for the month of May. I used to love this time of year when I was a kid. School was about to end and summer was about to kick in. Yep, a very special time indeed. Here’s another month-end collage. All pictures are from the month of May, 2010.
Every once in a while we’ll rediscover Apple Photo Booth and take some goofy pics and videos. It’s actually a pretty cool app, especially since it’s part of OS X. For those that don’t know, Photo Booth uses the built-in camera of your Mac.
It’s by far the easiest way for us to take “family” pics (Jill, the kid, Wubie, and I) because we can all just pile in front of the iMac, line up the shot, and snap the pics (the 3-2-1 countdown Photo Booth does before it actually takes the pic helps a lot!)
I was pleasantly surprised when I found some forgotten Photo Booth videos and pics we’d taken with the kid when she was still shiny and new. Some of those older pics are in this post’s collage, mixed in with some new (i.e., hippie hair) pics we took today.
Thanks, Photo Booth. We hope to use ya again before the kid gets her driver’s license.
Well that was fast. April is now in the books and 2010 is officially one third over with! Below is a collage made exclusively with pictures taken from April.
Notable happenings from the past month:
Celebrating Jill’s birthday in SF (too bad John couldn’t make it!)
Since we’re seeing Auntie Laura and Gpa Peter later on today in SF, I thought I’d post a collage of pics Laura took the last time the kid gave her a visit.
In these pics you’ll see the kid:
Jump up and down on a bed
Battle a squid!
Get sniffed by a cat (or is that a really small dairy cow?)
