{"id":10900,"date":"2008-12-26T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/26\/16-days-in-counting"},"modified":"2008-12-26T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T12:24:00","slug":"16-days-in-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2008\/12\/26\/16-days-in-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Days in Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Welp<\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">friends<\/span>. I have dropped. Not the ball. But the baby. Breathing a bit better today, which is nice because I haven&#8217;t been able to experience the joys of dropping with this wonderful cold I&#8217;ve had for almost a week. The good thing is that the puking only lasted for one day (last Saturday), but I really have been missing my left nostril. It&#8217;s nice that it&#8217;s back for at least a visit today.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas was wonderful. It was such a blessing to get to wake up at your own house and just stay there. That&#8217;s right, my wonderful family came to us this year &#8211; in light of current circumstances. It was nice to get the early afternoon to just hang out with Mom and Dad. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Jes<\/span> and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Nayt<\/span> showed up around 3 and we ate at 4pm. Overall, it was a really relaxing day of no-shoes, dog petting and laughing. Such wonderful memories. &#8220;Everywhere you turn there&#8217;s some kind of baby toy,&#8221; mom commented as she happened upon the newest set of baby bathtub toys given us by a sweet lady at church. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">Tis<\/span> true, friends, Matt and I are baby-ready. Matt said in the car on the way home from a quick visit to his family last night, &#8220;We&#8217;re ready for the baby. Well, ready as not ready can be ready.&#8221; He&#8217;s got a point there. We&#8217;re as ready as unready can be!<\/p>\n<p>Got to hold John last night at the in-law<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">&#8216;s<\/span> as I watched the family open the gifts from Matt and me. John was crying in Matt&#8217;s arms. &#8220;John doesn&#8217;t <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">like me<\/span>,&#8221; he announced to the family. Matt handed him to me and he instantly calmed down. &#8220;That&#8217;s not even fair!&#8221; said Matt. &#8220;He knows she&#8217;s a mom,&#8221; piped in Ellen to relieve Matt&#8217;s conscience. I kinda felt bad. I didn&#8217;t do anything he wasn&#8217;t doing. John just got quiet for me. The poor little <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_7\">gass<\/span>-y fellow was trying to &#8220;work it all out&#8221; last night. According to Ellen this is a daily <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_8\">occurrence<\/span> for him. He and I enjoyed some good snuggle time on the couch. He&#8217;s a good <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_9\">snuggler<\/span> that sweet little one.  It was nice to have a snuggle friend after a long, but good day. &#8211; Looking forward to meeting our little one. &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just taking a quick break here at work so I better get back to things here. I get to make up my own hours for today as I finish paperwork. So far I&#8217;m one of one here at the building, but <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_10\">afterall<\/span> it&#8217;s 7:30am. I got here at 5:30am after waking up at 4:30am and feeling as rested as usual. I just headed on in with hopes of getting home around the time that Matt wakes up and just in time for lunch. With a quick after-lunch nap I&#8217;ll be good for the rest of the day. I thought this sounded like a good alternative to taking a vacation day that I could have otherwise taken when our baby chooses to bless us with their in-arms presence.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_11\">Alrighty<\/span>, so have a good morning friends and I&#8217;m back to the &#8220;grind&#8221; here at the dead, but productive office. &#8211; <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_12\">Oooo<\/span>, signs of life are heard down the hallway. &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welp friends. I have dropped. Not the ball. But the baby. Breathing a bit better today, which is nice because I haven&#8217;t been able to experience the joys of dropping with this wonderful cold I&#8217;ve had for almost a week. The good thing is that the puking only lasted for one day (last Saturday), but&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2008\/12\/26\/16-days-in-counting\/#more-10900\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}