{"id":1441,"date":"2011-08-29T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2011-08-28T23:33:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T04:33:31","slug":"big-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/2011\/08\/big-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day it seems that Sam shows us something new that he&#8217;s learned. He&#8217;s getting to be a Big Boy so fast&#8211;faster than I am ready for.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of Sam&#8217;s Big Boy status&#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He willingly gives up the paci when it&#8217;s not naptime, bedtime, or other cranky times. He even uses Paci as a bargaining chip, particularly when he wants a snack.<\/li>\n<li>Drop-offs at school are typically pretty easy. Usually Sam walks into his room and starts playing or goes to sit down for circle time (if we&#8217;re late, which we often are). Most of the time he doesn&#8217;t even bother to wave bye-bye to Mommy.<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s talking so much more. He picks up new words and phrases every day &#8211; sometimes ones we <a href=\"http:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/2011\/08\/more-words\/\">wish he wouldn&#8217;t<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>He often refers to his reflection (in the tub overflow drain, in the mirror, in the dishwasher) as &#8220;Big Boy&#8221; instead of &#8220;Baby&#8221; (and yes, you can tell the difference).<\/li>\n<li>He knows what Time Out is, where it is, and has even <a href=\"http:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/2011\/08\/time-out\/\">put himself there once<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>When he&#8217;s ready for bed, he tells us&#8230;and has even &#8220;shooed&#8221; me out of the room when I&#8217;ve lingered too long after saying night-night.<\/li>\n<li>He <a href=\"http:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/2011\/08\/stairs-and-balls\/\">climbs the stairs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You know the saying &#8220;be careful what you wish for,&#8221; right? Well, y&#8217;all, remind me never again to wish for or tell him to &#8220;be a big boy.&#8221; I never really mean it, and it&#8217;s the one thing he seems to listen to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day it seems that Sam shows us something new that he&#8217;s learned. He&#8217;s getting to be a Big Boy so fast&#8211;faster than I am ready for. Examples of Sam&#8217;s Big Boy status&#8211; He willingly gives up the paci when it&#8217;s not naptime, bedtime, or other cranky times. He even uses Paci as a bargaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-d-2010","category-samuel-lewis","category-striking-revelations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}