Getting to know Ike.

Lucy invited Isaac to a tea party this morning. She insisted that he come rather than play the wallflower and sleep in his nearby swing. I take this as a good sign that she'd like him to stick around.

Check out what's new at my house...

My baby brother is here! Of course, he's already a copycat and has his own blog.

A nautical afternoon.

Lucy has a thing for boats lately, so we took her to Fells Point this afternoon for the annual Privateer Day, where lots of grown ups walk around pretending to be pirates (gak!) and replica pirate ships are docked in the harbor.

More Easter - Hunting for eggs at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Easter 2010.

Lucy's favorite song.

It's probably the pregnancy hormones talking, but this song makes me tear up every time I hear it!

Lucy 1, Vegetables 0.

Tonight when Lucy asked for a popsicle toward the end of dinner, I said, "Hey, you have to eat a bite of cucumber before you can have a popsicle, ok?" I explained to her that you have to eat (or at least try) your veggies before you get to have a treat. Lucy met me halfway and used her cucumber spear as a scoop for the caesar dressing on the side, meant to make the cucumber more appealing. So now she thinks creamy salad dressing is a vegetable, I guess.

See how she tilted her dinner plate to get the best angle on the salad dressing...

The sweet taste of victory.