Lucy turned six-months old this week and celebrated by having one of the smiliest and happiest days ever. She woke up grinning and pretty much only took breaks for sleeping. I didn’t mind it at all. :) All of that smiling, plus a sunshine-y day made for a pretty good six-month photo shoot, despite the fact that Papa wasn’t around to operate the camera. I think we got at least one good photo with Mama’s skills. (Play the movie below to see her warming up for the shoot.) We also enjoyed making some fantastic “chocolate cookies”:http:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/page.jhtml?type=content&id=recipe3956&contentGroup=EDF&layout=edf. One of my very favorite recipes! So chewy and perfect.<\/p>\n
p{color:gray}. Movie: This 9.6 MB clip runs 1’17”, shot on October 25, 2006. (Note: If you can’t see the video, you may simply need to update your free “Quicktime”:http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/ plug-in.)<\/p>\n
<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nEarlier in the week, we experimented with feeding Lucy some “pur\u00c3\u00a9ed sweet potatoes”:\/news\/2006\/catching-up-with-lucy\/. She didn’t find it as delightful as I had hoped. We got her all set up in her high chair and fed her with a colorful spoon, but she kept grimacing and finally cried. The next day, I mixed the sweet potatoes with a little breast milk so it would taste more familiar, and sat Lucy on my lap to feed her. She promptly blew raspberries into the spoon — quite cute, but a bit messy.<\/p>\nA few days later, Lucy went in for her six-month checkup. To our surprise, the doctor recommended that we not feed her solids yet. “If she is happy with milk and not acting hungry for something more, then don’t worry about it,” he said. Makes sense, I suppose, although we were sort of looking forward to the spoon-feeding phase. But nursing is more convenient anyway, so we’ll just keep following the baby on this one.<\/p>\nWe also asked the doctor about swaddling — is it weird that we still “swaddle”:\/news\/2006\/luv-2-b-swaddled\/ Lucy for all sleeps? He seemed to think so. “Try swaddling her with her arms out, I’d like her to be able to move around a bit more.” Well, we tried that today and it took over 35 minutes and finally re-swaddling with arms inside for her to fall asleep this afternoon. That’s not okay with me. We are going to try swaddling with only one arm out tomorrow for a nap and see how that works. I’m trying not to stress about this, reminding myself that probably Lucy is bound to give it up one of these days.<\/p>\nThe rest of the doctor’s appointment was pretty standard: Lucy is weighing in at a still-slim (30ish percentile) 15 lbs 2 oz and measuring a still-tall (60ish percentile) 26 inches long. She is continuing her long and slender trend, although you wouldn’t know it by squeezing the rolls on her thighs (which we do as often as we can)! Lucy was quite brave through her shots, crying when she got poked but recovering quickly. She seemed slightly feverish and out of sorts the next day, but is totally back to normal now.<\/p>\nI’ve been trying, in the spirit of “slowing down,” to take a walk with Lucy every day. It is a bit more challenging as the weather gets colder. Luckily, I used to be heavier and have a pretty big winter coat. With my trusty sidekick in her BabyBj\u00c3\u00b6rn, we wrap ourselves in down and brave the elements. The other day we ventured out in the autumn rain, shielded by Jon’s “extra-large British umbrella”:\/news\/2006\/study-in-black-and-white\/. Lucy seems to enjoy it, and I will sometimes have extra fun by listening to an audio book in one ear (_Northanger Abbey_ by Jane Austen is the current selection on the iPod). Lucy looks especially cute when she returns home with a pink nose and cheeks. The other day, I was wishing that I could introduce her to the joys of hot cocoa after a chilly adventure. Then I thought, “Warm milk is almost as good!” Lucy didn’t complain a bit about the lack of chocolate flavor. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucy turned six-months old this week and celebrated by having one of the smiliest and happiest days ever. She woke up grinning and pretty much only took breaks for sleeping. I didn’t mind it at all. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids","category-the-lucy-files","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Earlier in the week, we experimented with feeding Lucy some “pur\u00c3\u00a9ed sweet potatoes”:\/news\/2006\/catching-up-with-lucy\/. She didn’t find it as delightful as I had hoped. We got her all set up in her high chair and fed her with a colorful spoon, but she kept grimacing and finally cried. The next day, I mixed the sweet potatoes with a little breast milk so it would taste more familiar, and sat Lucy on my lap to feed her. She promptly blew raspberries into the spoon — quite cute, but a bit messy.<\/p>\n
A few days later, Lucy went in for her six-month checkup. To our surprise, the doctor recommended that we not feed her solids yet. “If she is happy with milk and not acting hungry for something more, then don’t worry about it,” he said. Makes sense, I suppose, although we were sort of looking forward to the spoon-feeding phase. But nursing is more convenient anyway, so we’ll just keep following the baby on this one.<\/p>\n
We also asked the doctor about swaddling — is it weird that we still “swaddle”:\/news\/2006\/luv-2-b-swaddled\/ Lucy for all sleeps? He seemed to think so. “Try swaddling her with her arms out, I’d like her to be able to move around a bit more.” Well, we tried that today and it took over 35 minutes and finally re-swaddling with arms inside for her to fall asleep this afternoon. That’s not okay with me. We are going to try swaddling with only one arm out tomorrow for a nap and see how that works. I’m trying not to stress about this, reminding myself that probably Lucy is bound to give it up one of these days.<\/p>\n
The rest of the doctor’s appointment was pretty standard: Lucy is weighing in at a still-slim (30ish percentile) 15 lbs 2 oz and measuring a still-tall (60ish percentile) 26 inches long. She is continuing her long and slender trend, although you wouldn’t know it by squeezing the rolls on her thighs (which we do as often as we can)! Lucy was quite brave through her shots, crying when she got poked but recovering quickly. She seemed slightly feverish and out of sorts the next day, but is totally back to normal now.<\/p>\n
I’ve been trying, in the spirit of “slowing down,” to take a walk with Lucy every day. It is a bit more challenging as the weather gets colder. Luckily, I used to be heavier and have a pretty big winter coat. With my trusty sidekick in her BabyBj\u00c3\u00b6rn, we wrap ourselves in down and brave the elements. The other day we ventured out in the autumn rain, shielded by Jon’s “extra-large British umbrella”:\/news\/2006\/study-in-black-and-white\/. Lucy seems to enjoy it, and I will sometimes have extra fun by listening to an audio book in one ear (_Northanger Abbey_ by Jane Austen is the current selection on the iPod). Lucy looks especially cute when she returns home with a pink nose and cheeks. The other day, I was wishing that I could introduce her to the joys of hot cocoa after a chilly adventure. Then I thought, “Warm milk is almost as good!” Lucy didn’t complain a bit about the lack of chocolate flavor. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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