Boyds’ Nest News

Lucy is definitely starting to focus more on our faces these days, and every once in a while we get a hint of a smile. Her newfound responsiveness, however minimal, is a welcome addition to her facial vocabulary! But I am glad for these weeks of caring for pre-smile Lucy. I think I’ve learned a lot about love. Continue reading “Lucy love”

We are experimenting with some alternative methods of feeding around here. No, Jon and I are still eating with knife, fork, and the occasional chopstick. Lucy, on the other hand, is entering the wonderful world of silicone nipples. Continue reading “Feeding alternatives”

Lucy turned five weeks old today. Amazing! These weeks have marched on steadily, and suddenly here we are with a five-week-old baby and more and more clues all the time about how to care for her. Join us on our Lucy watch for a day in the life, week five: Continue reading “Lucy watch”

We cannot let another day pass without writing of Lucy’s intense passion for bouncing. She insists on being bounced early and often. We have been contemplating changing her name to “Tigger”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigger, but completing the legal paperwork involved would take away time from bouncing Lucy, and she just won’t have that. Continue reading “Bouncing baby Boyd”

Yesterday was Lucy’s one month birthday. Hooray! Jon and I notice that she is looking more and more like a baby these days. Namely, she is a cutie. Let us tell you about several exciting events this week, some upcoming and some already passed, that we think are an appropriate way to celebrate Lucy turning one month old: Continue reading “One month”

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

In honor of Lucy’s one-month birthday today, we’d like to make a confession: We still have her dried-up umbilical-cord stump sitting in a little dish on the changing table. Continue reading “Stumped”

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?”