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<\/p>\nWe 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. <\/p>\n
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When Lucy is crying, often the only thing that will calm her down is being held in our arms and bounced, and bounced vigorously, on “The Big Blue Ball”:http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/must-have-hardware\/. We purchased this exercise ball in preparation for birth. I found sitting on it so comfortable that it became my office chair in the last months of pregnancy. And it was definitely useful for sitting, rocking, and leaning on during labor.<\/p>\n
Perhaps experiencing The Ball so regularly _in utero_ primed Lucy with a great love of bouncing. However, I do not remember bouncing quite so high and energetically in those final cumbersome weeks! No matter what the reason, we are glad to know that Lucy loves The Ball. We have been going so far as to bring it with us on our various family outings this weekend. Mockery was to be expected, but when our relatives heard the cries of our child and saw the power of The Ball, the joking was silenced and all sat in reverent awe.<\/p>\n
We have also discovered that Lucy enjoys being bounced by hand. She has just enough control of her head to hold it steady while we lift her up and bounce her on our laps. I was delighted to learn of this early on in the weekend, as it gave me another, non-Ball option for calming Baby. I fully expected to use this trick during her “baptism”:http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/sprinkled\/, but she surprised us all by being the perfect model of dignity and serenity during the service. And I was glad that we didn’t bring The Ball up in front of the church as a pre-emptive calming measure. (It was, however, ready out in the car.)<\/p>\n
What does this affinity for bouncing mean for Lucy’s future? Will she grow to love gymnastics? Will we have terrible arguments about why she cannot have a trampoline? Should we buy stock in Pogo Sticks and Hippity-Hops now? No one knows, but we look forward to finding out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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