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\n* During the first week of July, she started grabbing at things. Well, maybe that’s over-stating it, but she at least convulsively flails her arms in the general direction of interesting things (toys on her swing’s lap bar, objects on a table, etc.).
\n* Around July 13, she started experimenting with different vocalizations (little yodels, chirps, and squeals). Our favorite is a Tarzan-like yodel: ahee-ahee-aaah….
\n* She has started to enjoy “tummy-time”:\/news\/2006\/tummy-time\/ a whole lot more.
\n* Her chirps somehow sound a lot like a tennis ball hitting a racquet — so on weekend mornings the courts across the street torment Papa who’s trying to sleep but who keeps thinking Baby is waking up
\n* When you pick Lucy up, she curls into a ball like you do when you “cannonball” into a swimming pool. It’s “those fabulous abs”:\/news\/2006\/chowing-down\/.
\n* Her clean, dry butt after a diaper change feels exactly like very soft bread dough. Actually, much like the dough of a particular biscuit recipe Mama makes.
\n* Lucy regularly gets the hiccups. She did it in the womb all the time, and continues to do it today. It doesn’t seem to bother her much.
\n* Papa composed one of our favorite toe rhymes, which starts at the baby toe: “One toe, two toe, three toe, four. Big toe — that’s the one toe more!”
\n* Lucy is widening her sucking horizons. Lately, she has been sucking her thumb tucked into the side of her mouth. She sometimes enjoys “sucking her lower lip”:\/news\/2006\/tasty-bottom-lip\/, and she almost always enjoys sucking the hand of whomever is bathing her.
\n* Lucy has been reaching for a toy with two hands!
\n* Lucy has successfully found her feet and put them into her mouth. (August 22: First confirmed instance of her sucking her own toes.) When Lucy is on the diaper changing table these days, you can find her hanging on to both feet.
\n* Lucy loves to stand on a person’s lap, and lately she has also been “standing on one foot”:\/news\/2006\/one-foot\/!
\n* Mama and Lucy tell secrets to each other. Actually, Mama just whispers “la la la” into Lucy’s ear and Lucy giggles.
\n* One of Lucy’s favorite activities is sitting on the “front porch and watching”:\/news\/2006\/motion\/ the cars go by. If she is facing the house, she will turn to look at a car over her shoulder once she hears it.
\n* Papa likes to say “zoom-zoom-zoom-zoom-zoom!” and zoom in to kiss Lucy. She laughs!
\n* We never realized how crucial courage would be in parenting. (We’ll have to write a whole post on that line sometime.)
\n* August 19 marks Lucy’s first blood. It was a freak accident while clipping Lucy’s fingernails. Mama was much more traumatized than Lucy.
\n* Lucy started blowing raspberries on August 21. Papa has taken to blowing a raspberry back at her: “Bbbblllllll, yourself!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Once upon a time”:\/news\/2006\/the-lucy-files-week-7-day-2\/, we envisioned a series of posts in “The Lucy Files,” as a catch-all for miscellaneous stuff we wanted to remember but that never made it into posts of their own. We haven’t done one in “two months”:\/news\/2006\/the-lucy-files-month-2-day-7\/, so pardon us, but we’ve got some catching up to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids","category-the-lucy-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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