https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/MVI_7266.MOV<\/a><\/p>\nWhen Lucy is getting a little bored at the end of a meal, Mama or Papa spice it up a little bit with a “feed your parent a Cheerio” game. Or sometimes we put a Cheerio between our lips and Lucy grabs it and eats it. Hilarious.<\/p>\n
p{color:gray}. Video: Lucy makes Papa beg for a Cheerio.<\/p>\n
In the oral arena, you’ll be glad to learn that Lucy is officially a five-tooth girl now, going on six-teeth. We are also introducing Lucy to the joys of tooth-brushing, which she finds pretty novel. Perhaps she will inherit Mama’s tooth-brushing obsession and bring a toothbrush with her everywhere she goes?<\/p>\n
Lucy is so delighted by so many things, which you can probably tell from her “smiling”:\/news\/2007\/big-brim\/ “face”:\/news\/2007\/ostrich-impression\/ and “frequent”:\/news\/2007\/mirror-image\/ “giggles”:\/news\/2007\/swing-shift-2\/. Here are a few examples:
\n* Since late April, Lucy has been tickled by Papa rubbing his hands together to make a swishing sound. If she’s standing, she sits down to free both hands and try it herself.
\n* Lucy loves watching the tub drain. Or maybe it is the anticipation of getting dried off in a fluffy white towel. She rocks back and forth, looks up at her Papa (the Bathmaster) and squeals, splashes with her hands, and generally has a blast. Whatever the cause, the end of bathtime is a laugh riot around here.
\n* One evening in mid-May, we were surprised, after Lucy had been asleep for an hour, to hear a great chuckle and babble erupt from Lucy’s room, followed by silence. May 15, 2007 marks the first “sleep talk” from Lucy, a rich Boyd tradition.<\/p>\n
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We are on pins and needles waiting for Lucy’s first words. Here are a few tantalizing developments in the communication department:
\n* Could her first words be “cha cha cha”? Are these even considered words? Lucy has been experimenting with these syllables as a finale to our periodic choruses of “The Lucy Song”:\/news\/2007\/cha-cha-cha\/.
\n* It’s not a word, but a longing for connection: lately, Lucy has been known to stick her index finger out as an invitation to touch fingers in midair.
\n* Her little squeals and buzzes and chirps have made us start calling her “R2D2.”
\n* Lucy loves to put her wrist in her mouth to make a modified “ba ba ba.” Unfortunately, this particular consonant is not used in the English language (at least, not with this technique), or she’d be really onto something.
\n* Lucy is enamored with our cordless telephone. She loves to press all the buttons, so we have to watch carefully to make sure she isn’t dialing “911.” But her favorite trick of all is watching the red “line in use” light go on the wall-mounted phone whenever she hits the “talk” button on the remote handset. She could do this for hours (if we let her). Do you think she has a future in telecommunications?<\/p>\n
All in all, Lucy is just a bundle of fun these days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thirteen months old today, Lucy is growing in length, weight, and comprehension, much to our delight! And, according to our pediatrician, it doesn’t even matter that she won’t eat any vegetables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-lucy-files","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9660,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/9660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}