{"id":9689,"date":"2011-12-02T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/02\/oh-to-be-the-baby"},"modified":"2011-12-02T06:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T11:31:00","slug":"oh-to-be-the-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2011\/12\/02\/oh-to-be-the-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh to be the baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/data.whicdn.com\/images\/3117721\/tumblr_l5rbxxIcii1qb1kaao1_500_thumb.jpg?1279890661\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/data.whicdn.com\/images\/3117721\/tumblr_l5rbxxIcii1qb1kaao1_500_thumb.jpg?1279890661\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Climb in and out of the Lego toy bin for 6 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Wander the house.<\/li>\n<li>Find paci &#8211; the long-lost friend- amid the nursery pile of baby blankets that are supposed to go there and certainly not in the crib where Mommy puts them with me to sleep.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Talk to paci, reciting his name affectionately a handful of times before putting him in his right place &#8211; where he fits so well. Paci remains in my mouth for the next 24 minutes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Immediate hand to rub that one comfortable place on my belly. It always happens that way when paci is in place.<\/li>\n<li>More hallway walking.<\/li>\n<li>Climb up on the couch &#8211; oh the effort- and bang the blinds a while &#8211; what a joyful event!<\/li>\n<li>Talk to ride-on cow about the latest happenings.<\/li>\n<li>Throw all the blankets off the couch Rachael put up there for her babies earlier this morning.<\/li>\n<li>Drag one of the blankets back over to share with cow, resuming our intimate meeting by the cat tree.<\/li>\n<li>More hallway wandering.<\/li>\n<li>Drag the play guitar on the kitchen floor. It sounds so funny that it makes me smile.<\/li>\n<li>Roll on the living room floor while kicking my legs in the air.<\/li>\n<li>Try to ride the cat carrier.<\/li>\n<li>Eyeballs peeking up over the table edge and putting an arm up there in hopes of finding treasure.<\/li>\n<li>Smack a few magnets off the fridge as I walk by.<\/li>\n<li>Wooden puzzle time- putting all the circle piece on their pegs. Dumping over my head and redoing.<\/li>\n<li>Abandon puzzle.<\/li>\n<li>OOOOOH look! Mommy caught a meow! &#8211; HURRY! Hurry!<\/li>\n<li>Calling &#8220;Meow&#8217;s!&#8221; and confusion why they run when I just want to give them big hugs while squealing.<\/li>\n<li>Wander around looking for Rachael.<\/li>\n<li>Observe Rachael&#8217;s play.<\/li>\n<li>Show Daddy the necklaces Rachael dropped.<\/li>\n<li>Laugh and flap my arms in excitement that he might put them on me.<\/li>\n<li>Wear necklaces with pride &#8211; parading through the playroom.<\/li>\n<li>Turn a few nearby toys in my hands to inspect them.<\/li>\n<li>Join in Rachael&#8217;s marching-band parade with the addition of jingle bells.<\/li>\n<li>Oh look! Books!<\/li>\n<li>Abandon parade route and instrument.<\/li>\n<li>Commence edible book review.<\/li>\n<li>Talk to Daddy on play phone, then give Mommy a turn.<\/li>\n<li>Run to Mommy saying, &#8220;neigh, neigh&#8221; and flapping my arms so she&#8217;ll put me on the rocking horse.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Down&#8221; gets me off.<\/li>\n<li>Laughing that &#8220;down&#8221; worked.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Ooooh! Daddy&#8217;s putting Rachael in her food chair! How exciting! RUN!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This has been a 35 minute walk in her little shoes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; love her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climb in and out of the Lego toy bin for 6 minutes. Wander the house. Find paci &#8211; the long-lost friend- amid the nursery pile of baby blankets that are supposed to go there and certainly not in the crib where Mommy puts them with me to sleep.\u00a0 Talk to paci, reciting his name affectionately&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2011\/12\/02\/oh-to-be-the-baby\/#more-9689\">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":[41,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby","category-thats-just-life","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689","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=9689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}