
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":1021,"date":"2008-02-02T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T01:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2008-02-02T19:10:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T08:10:33","slug":"newsletter-month-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/1021\/","title":{"rendered":"newsletter: month three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my little JJ,<\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s so much to say, as usual, but i&#8217;m afraid i don&#8217;t know how to do you justice. you continue to shine every day, your father and i are pretty much addicted to every inch of you that often i think we&#8217;d cage fight just to change your nappy sometimes. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2179279443\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2356\/2179279443_ac077e42df.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>this past month, you&#8217;ve started to really come out of your shell. at first, it was just a simple <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/626642\">one way roll<\/a>, and the next week (just a couple of days ago actually!) you&#8217;ve started to <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/654534\">roll across the room<\/a>! i should of known you&#8217;d be a mover, considering you were SO very active in my belly. <\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve been back at work full time for a month now, and it&#8217;s hard to leave you in the care of others (even if it is your grandparents) but i want you to know this is all for you. i was so worried that i would miss your milestones, but it seems you like to save them just for your dad and i \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2207640600\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2131\/2207640600_f4419bbeca.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>your love of &#8216;all things in my mouth&#8217; has taken a new level &#8211; often we find you, actually we <em>hear <\/em>you, sucking away on your fingers, whole hand or your arm in some sort of slobber love fest. we&#8217;re kinda grateful for that, because it means less saliva to wipe off your face and neck (and sometimes our faces and necks, too). grandma has been putting 2 bibs on you at the start of the day now, because there&#8217;s just so much goo coming out of that pie hole. if we could bottle and sell it, we&#8217;d be millionaires!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2215732873\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2297\/2215732873_970c44d970.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>every so often, i stop and see how much you&#8217;ve grown in such a short time &#8211; you&#8217;ve doubled your birth weight, and you&#8217;re growing out of your bouncy chair so much that your feet will touch the ground soon! (i reckon you&#8217;ll be tall like your father, at least i hope so).  you&#8217;ve been rubbing your hair off on the sides of your head though, we couldn&#8217;t figure out why you were so patchy until we looked on the bouncy chair and saw the tiny baby hair&#8217;s all over where you rest your head. your belly is ever changing &#8211; sometimes your dad and i joke that you&#8217;re pregnant with your own little baby, and by the looks of your diaper i guess that&#8217;s true in some way \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2225317972\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2032\/2225317972_407c58d97a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>you still love tummy time, which i guess helped along the rolling tricks you&#8217;ve picked up. you seem to know where the tv is in any given room and will swivel yourself into the best vantage point you can muster. you&#8217;re a pro at baby push ups, and you love sitting up right or looking over our shoulders. you&#8217;re no longer head butting us as much, which is an indication you&#8217;re getting stronger and stronger. <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/629598\">you seem to love it when you&#8217;re bounced<\/a>, it may hurt our arms but it&#8217;s worth it to hear your lovely baby cackles.  <\/p>\n<p>in this past week, you&#8217;ve become hard to get to sleep at night. you&#8217;re still sleeping through but you&#8217;re a tough customer when it comes to actually getting you to bed. we&#8217;re not worried though &#8211; we think you&#8217;re going through another growth spurt, and we&#8217;re just doing everything we can to make you feel ok. it&#8217;s just hard to hear you cry the way you have been, i wish you could tell us what&#8217;s going on but until then, your dad and i are right there beside you if you need us. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2235888488\/\" title=\"3 months along... by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2396\/2235888488_690bd0be3d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"3 months along...\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>you&#8217;ve really got some big big love for your daddy, you always give him the best giggles and the biggest smiles. i know one day soon i&#8217;ll be outnumbered by you guys playing tricks on me (putting gluten in my diet and hiding around corners together to scare me silly), but i think that&#8217;s a good thing. it&#8217;s nice to see you happy with your dad \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s still so much to discover about you, and so much for you to discover. it&#8217;s mind blowing to think that i&#8217;m allowed to raise such a wonderful creature like you. as i say every month, we&#8217;ve been blessed and continue to be blessed with everything that you do, and everything that you are. <\/p>\n<p>mama x <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my little JJ, there&#8217;s so much to say, as usual, but i&#8217;m afraid i don&#8217;t know how to do you justice. you continue to shine every day, your father and i are pretty much addicted to every inch of you that often i think we&#8217;d cage fight just to change your nappy sometimes. this past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jasper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}