DOT -- Lucy is 2!

Happy birthday to my baby!  Lucy was born June 3, 2007.  

We began her birthday celebration the night before her birthday.  We gave her a new toy, a stuffed hedgehog with a "grunter" inside.  I know Lucy rips squeakers out immediately and I hoped a grunter would not be such a temptation.

I was wrong.  She removed it with surgical precision.
OK, now it's Wednesday, her actual birthday and we are about to go for a walk.  She celebrated by taking this tomato container out of the recycling bin and ripping it up.  Two years into her life and she still is a very chewy dog.
Lucy's grandma sent a few toys (and a lot of tennis balls) in a birthday package.  We took the orange squeaky Frisbee-like toy with us on the walk.  We reached the half-way point where Lucy insists on practicing her retrieval skills.  She liked the new toy!
Here's a photo showing all our walking supplies.  It's just a walk with the dog so it should be simple, right?  No.  What you can't see is me wearing my cargo-pocket hiking shorts, or my dog-walking pants as I call them.  In the pockets there are poop bags, the phone, camera, and house key.  In the backpack I carry a bottle of water for Lucy and her travel bowl because it's definitely summer here, and the retrieving toy.  Sometimes it's a ball and this time it was the new Frisbee.
Two years ago when she was born I had no idea I was getting a puppy.  Life was much simpler then, but not nearly as fun as it is now.  Happy birthday to my baby!