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Lucy's 4th swimming lesson at Foss.
Saturday, 1-Oct-2005. |
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| The venue
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Lucy's
lessons are in the area directly in front of the camera |
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| Joana and
Lucy |
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One of the
first basic things to get Lucy to do is to kick her feet while on her
stomach, being passed back and forth. |
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| Lucy loves
splashing |
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Trying to
get Lucy to put her mouth in the water and blow bubbles |
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| Getting
ready for "Humpty Dumpty" |
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Humpty
Dumpty is where Lucy sits on the edge of the pool and then jumps in to Joana
(she jumps some of the time) |
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| If we let
her, she'd try to climb out of the pool, eager to do a Humpty Dumpty again |
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Having fun |
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| Having fun
"swimming" on her stomach |
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Heading to
pick up a toy |
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| Lucy often
sticks a toy in her mouth while she's swimming |
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Swimming
over to the teacher |
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| This is
the only part of Lucy's lesson that she doesn't like—floating
on her back |
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Sitting on
the mat |
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| Lucy is
quite happy to be swimming |
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After the swimming lesson, we went
home to get some lunch and then headed for the dog park.
Saturday, 1-Oct-2005. |
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| Lucy
giggles, watching the dogs jump into the pond, chasing the tennis ball |
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Lucy,
contemplative |
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| She was
pretty amused, watching the dogs fetch the tennis ball |
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Kirby and
Jack, waiting for another throw |
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| Wet dog |
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Jack can
swim (Kirby can't), so he's the one that goes out into the pond after the
ball |
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| And Kirby
tries to head him off |
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Jack with
the ball |
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| Lucy
enjoying some flowers |
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Lucy at
the dog park |
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| Lots to
look at |
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I think
she was trying out her new shoes |
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| Back to
picking grass and flowers |
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Pointing
to something interesting |
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| Clover |
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More TV-watching in her new chair.
Actually, this is DVD-watching, since Lucy only watches one show a day—one
of her Baby Einstein videos in the evening.
Tuesday, 4-Oct-2005. |
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| Lucy loves
sitting on her lion chair while watching her Baby Einstein DVD |
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Lucy with her hippo car (if that's
what you call this thing).
Wednesday, 5-Oct-2005. |
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| Lucy often
puts various toys into the hippo car and pushes it around the kitchen |
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Pushing
the car, while Jack heads to investigate an abandoned toy |
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| Lucy
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Lucy playing outside, with a big
kickball.
Saturday, 8-Oct-2005. |
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| Out in the
back yard with Kirby, kicking around a big kick ball (the "eye ball") |
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She looks
like a little orchestra conductor |
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| Stirring
stuff up with her stick (notice the blur) |
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Is there a
sport where you move big rubber balls with little twigs? |
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| Checking
the condition of the twig |
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Carrying
the eye ball |
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| Lucy |
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Lots to
play with here |
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Lucy with new stuffed duckie—gift
from Mike & Kim.
Sunday, 16-Oct-2005. |
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| Lucy
really loved her new duckie. |
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Putting
the duckie in the high chair |
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Some more photos with duckie.
Monday, 17-Oct-2005. |
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| Sitting in
the high chair with duckie |
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Uh-oh,
he's not moving.. |
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| Duckie
gets a hug |
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Lucy has started doing regular
coloring. We put down a huge piece of cardboard on the kitchen table
and then let her go at it.
Thursday, 20-Oct-2005. |
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| Lucy, at
her coloring |
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She makes
lots of nice, curved lines |
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| Calling
for a new pen |
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Lucy in
her new vest |
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| Lucy and
Joana |
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Showing
off the new vest |
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| Heading
off to some other spot |
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Time for Lucy's weekly swimming
lesson again and this time Sean decides to be the parent in the pool.
Saturday, 22-Oct-2005. |
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| Lucy,
"swimming" |
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She's
starting to kick her feet when she goes back and forth between Mom or Dad
and the teacher |
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| Doing a
"Humpty Dumpty", Lucy jumps off the edge of the pool |
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Showing
off her new swimsuit |
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| Waiting to
jump in |
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We've continued to have gorgeous
Fall weather. After the swimming lesson, Sean heads outside to tackle
leaf cleanup projects, and we rake a little pile of leaves together so that
Lucy can play in them. She's still too little to jump into the pile,
but she enjoyed poking at the leaves with a stick.
Saturday, 22-Oct-2005. |
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| Bagel in
hand, Lucy surveys the leaf situation |
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Running
through the leaves |
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| Lucy with
Dad |
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She
manages to find a good stick |
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| Lucy and
Sean. Notice that the bagel has been nibbled upon |
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Lucy
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| Digging
through the (very small) pile of leaves |
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Is Mom
watching me? |
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| Lucy with
her Dad |
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The weather continued to be great on
Sunday, so we headed for a local apple orchard to pick some apples.
Lucy enjoyed picking the apples, putting them in the basket, and removing
them from the basket.
Sunday, 23-Oct-2005. |
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| In the
car, on the way to the orchard |
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Closeup |
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| Giggling,
making faces in the mirror |
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The
orchard is on a farm, and you just pull a wagon out into the orchard and
pick apples wherever you like |
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| Lucy heads
off to find another apple |
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The apples
on the ground look just fine, too |
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| Mom asks
Lucy if she wants a couple of apples from the tree |
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Checking
apple quality |
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| This one
passed, so it gets put in the basket |
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Lucy picks
an apple |
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| Here's a
perfectly good apple, right next to the wagon |
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Lucy moved
into the wagon to better keep track of the basket |
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| Joana and
Lucy |
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Sean and
Lucy |
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| Lucy |
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Sampling
the apples was not only allowed, but encouraged |
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| Lucy in
the orchard |
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Lucy shows
off the apples that we've picked so far |
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| Pulling an
apple out of the basket |
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Looking at
an apple recently thrown off the wagon |
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| This one
looks pretty good |
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And tastes
pretty good, too |
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| That's a
big apple to get your mouth around |
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Lucy in
the wagon |
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| "Mom, does
this apple look okay?" |
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Lucy
strolls through the orchard |
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| Lucy with
a favorite apple |
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Lucy and
Mom have their eyes on one of the higher apples |
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| Picking
another one |
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Lucy |
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| Lucy and
Dad pose in front of the barn |
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On the way
home, Lucy enjoys a just-picked apple |
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| Nummy, but
sticky |
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Lucy continues with her Saturday
morning swimming lessons. Lucy is still the only kid in her class, so
we get one-on-one attention from the teacher.
Saturday, 29-Oct-2005. |
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| Lucy and
Mom wait for the class to start |
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Lucy doing
some splashing |
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| On her
back—a bit
less fun for Lucy then floating on her stomach |
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More
splashing |
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| Preparing
for an underwater dunk |
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Lucy's new
toy at the class is this floating barbell. She absolutely loves
floating around the pool, while hanging onto it. |
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| Floating
around, collecting toys |
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