Here are some more recent photos of Lucy. I know that's the only reason any of you good people still come visit this blog, even withstanding our regular lack of substantive posts. Thanks for your forbearance. A quick Lucy update: Instead of systematically pulling each book from our book case, she now prefers to climb each shelf and then dive head first back down. Most disasters, as yet, have been averted. She climbs up onto the sofa and onto the baseboard heaters in order to scream emphatically out the window at the neighbors' cats. She loves to walk through the dining room pushing around the kitchen chairs or her high chair. He vocabulary is growing quickly. Some favorites include "hi", "ducky", "dad", "hot", and "teddy". She also loves to imitate the sound of a sneeze. Annoyingly, "mama" is only preferred when she is sad or otherwise whining (oh, the injustice). In the last few weeks she has sprouted three big new top teeth, and loves to hijack the phone and make random phone calls to innocent recipients. Still, her very favorite daily ritual is when she calls daddy at work in the early morning. When she hears his voice her eyes light up and she gleefully greets him, "Hi dad."