Author: Jon

Someone pulled Lucy’s hair today. It really made her scream. The thing is, it was Lucy herself. Continue reading “Vicious circle”

Lucy’s feet and this open-ended sleeper she’s in look like a flower just opening up. Continue reading “Our little flower”

We acknowledge that the human smile is a psycho-physiological phenomenon, and that until newborns attain [1] control of their facial muscles and [2] perception of their surroundings it’s literally nonsense to say they’re truly smiling. Every once in a while, though, Lucy’s face cracks a grin on its own. Continue reading “What are you smiling about?”

Ann went nuts with the camera yesterday and shot a string of 20 photos of Lucy in her arms over the course of three minutes. Most of them are a bit out of focus, but at a small scale you can’t really notice — and the whole series captures a feel for what it’s like to hold and look into the face of this very active little baby. So I put them together into a “filmstrip.” Continue reading “Three minutes in the life of Lucy”

Earlier this week, Ann wrote about Lucy’s adorable “"little stretch routine"”:/news/2006/three-weeks/ when waking up from a swaddled sleep, and that made me realize we didn’t have any photos of that. Continue reading “Arch angel”

There are a number of things that Ann and I are really enjoying about being parents of a newborn. Believe it or not, for me one of those things is diapering. Continue reading “Doctor Diaper”

On the day Lucy was born, April 25, the Cubs won. At that point, they had won nearly two-thirds of their games, standing at 12 wins and 7 losses. Since then, they’ve won only 3 games in 18. We sincerely apologize for the disruption to the Cubs’ play that the birth of Lucy has caused.

The Social Security Administration updated their “Popular Baby Names”:http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ site yesterday with the 2005 naming data, and we’re perversely proud that our name choice for Lucia has remained an oddity. Continue reading “She’s 4.21 in 10,000”