{"id":1057,"date":"2010-10-08T21:04:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T01:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2010-10-09T22:46:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T02:46:56","slug":"it-really-feels-like-js-first-birthday-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"It really feels like J&#8217;s first birthday today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know that is strange.   One year ago today our dear son came home.   It was a sunny, warm fall day like today.   I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been a year.   He was so small!  Now he&#8217;s a happy healthy one year old.  What a blessing he has been and continues to be in our lives.  Here are some pictures from the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/J-smiling-outside-IMG_7140.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/J-smiling-outside-IMG_7140.jpg\" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><br \/>\nHere is J with daddy.   I want to dig out the old picture of him coming home, he was wearing the same outfit (different size of course).<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/J-and-daddy-same-outfit-as-coming-home-IMG_7185.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/J-and-daddy-same-outfit-as-coming-home-IMG_7185.jpg\" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><br \/>\nJ now knows \u201cWie Gross bist du?\u201d  Or in English, \u201chow big are you?\u201d  This is him doing it for the camera.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/J-wie-gross-bist-du-IMG_7148.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/J-wie-gross-bist-du-IMG_7148.jpg\" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><br \/>\nBy the way.  I bought a set of pylons for R and friends to play with outside.  What a hit!  The kids loved them.  They set up obstacle courses, yelled into them, and watched how they glowed as they put them over the outdoor lights.  What great fun.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/R-playing-with-pylons-IMG_7175.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/R-playing-with-pylons-IMG_7175.jpg\" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know that is strange. One year ago today our dear son came home. It was a sunny, warm fall day like today. I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been a year. He was so small! Now he&#8217;s a happy healthy one year old. What a blessing he has been and continues to be in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}