<\/p>\nIt’s been so long since we’ve written “an edition”:\/news\/2007\/the-lucy-files-january-30\/ of The Lucy Files that some of my notes are in danger of being out of date. She is growing and changing so quickly! <\/p>\n
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p{color:gray}. Photo: Lucy sports a sweater hand-knit by Ann for some of her turns around the premises.<\/p>\n
Lucy is a full-fledged crawler now and has been for several weeks. She is pulling herself up, getting into places she shouldn’t, and generally having a ball. You can tell how much she loves her newfound independence by the big grin she wears while she crawls around. Of course, all of this motion comes with a few bumps every day. It isn’t easy to remember how to coordinate both hands *and* both feet, so periodically Lucy gets a surprise face-plant on the floor, which isn’t fun for anyone. Most of the time she gets over it herself, but sometimes a snuggle is required (and no one around here really minds that!). <\/p>\n
Since Lucy doesn’t stay put so easily anymore, we invested in an Ergo baby carrier. I’ve been thinking about getting one of these for several months, and I’m glad we found a “site”:http:\/\/myfavoritebabycarrier.com\/ with free shipping and a good return policy to give us the extra nudge. It is very comfy for me, and Lucy seems to enjoy riding on my back — at least for a little while. How awesome to be able to carry a load of laundry up the stairs while wearing Lucy on my back! The disadvantage is that Lucy doesn’t have as good a view as she does in the BabyBj\u00c3\u00b6rn — but her weight is making the BabyBj\u00c3\u00b6rn more and more impractical these days.<\/p>\n
Speaking of weight, Lucy is definitely packing it on. She has really taken to eating human food: bananas, peaches, pears, avocado, toast, egg yolk, mango, cheerios, tofu, and yogurt. She just can’t get enough of that yogurt! You should hear her grunts of delight every time Papa spoons it up! I’ve been buying plain whole-milk yogurt and mixing it with some pureed bananas or peaches for flavor, and I must say, it is really good. Sometimes I take a spoonful myself. :)<\/p>\n
Adventures on the diaper table include Lucy’s new and alarming desire to flip over and crawl off in mid-diaper change. Luckily, we haven’t had any messy disasters yet, but we are beginning to approach the event with some fear and trepidation. We’ve been working hard at distracting her during the diaper change in an attempt to reduce the wiggles. Some favorite attention-getting toys include the nasal aspirator, Lucy’s “membership card” (some kind of special savings card we got in the mail that Lucy adores), the diaper-cream tube, one of her shoes, and occasionally a clean diaper. <\/p>\n
We are very glad to report that Lucy seems to be slowly returning to her old, glorious napping habits. She has been falling asleep much more quickly over the past week or two, and is occasionally taking naps of an hour or more. This is a big relief after weeks of outright nap rebellions or very short, 30-minute naps.<\/p>\n
Lucy is definitely growing into more of a little girl. We see new signs of maturity almost every day. Lucy has taken to turning the pages of books (which sometimes makes us read a bit more quickly if she is ready to be done!). She recognized Barney Bear<\/a>‘s name the other day when Papa was talking about him. She has been enjoying our family hugs, signaling for another one by leaning into Mama or Papa. I think she has been learning about giving kisses, too, but it always comes out as her chewing on my chin. I don’t mind one bit, as long as she doesn’t chomp down too hard with her one little “tooth”:\/news\/2007\/first-tooth\/!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been so long since we’ve written “an edition”:\/news\/2007\/the-lucy-files-january-30\/ of The Lucy Files that some of my notes are in danger of being out of date. She is growing and changing so quickly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-lucy-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}