
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":1038,"date":"2008-04-02T21:28:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T10:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2008-04-06T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T03:49:09","slug":"newsletter-month-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/1038\/","title":{"rendered":"newsletter: month five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my dearest sweetie pie buttons, <\/p>\n<p>loving someone has never been easier than it is to love you. <\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t think i can express how much we love you &#8211; and how that love grows with every sunrise and sunset. it&#8217;s an amazing thing to see you grow from a newborn baby into a little boy, all the new things you pick up and even the things we see every day. <\/p>\n<p>you bring joy to our lives in ways i couldn&#8217;t of imagined. i wish everyone gets the chance to experience such a feeling, it&#8217;s what life is all about. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2330867356\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2368\/2330867356_62c5a3c5fe_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>you started off this month as your normal gooey self &#8211; hand chewing, saliva slobbery you. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2353566787\/\" title=\"jasper was here by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2249\/2353566787_1c0ff1a43f_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"jasper was here\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>you still adore your tummy time &#8211; often wanting to be on the floor for hours at a time (though you should be napping!) so you can practice your baby push ups and rolling skills. you&#8217;re on your way to crawling &#8211; although we can only really describe it as &#8216;face planting&#8217; at the moment. we start you off at one end of your play mat, and a minute later you&#8217;re way up the other end (sometimes even all the way on the other side of the room!). sometimes i look for a baby skateboard or pulley system to check whether you&#8217;re cheating, but nope &#8211; you&#8217;re doing it all on your own \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2370126943\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2086\/2370126943_0ae328f559_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/784143\">you love flying around with your daddy<\/a> and anyone else who dares to lift you into the air &#8211; your saliva bombs are notorious for landing in our eyes and mouths.. there&#8217;s this lovely giggle you let out when you&#8217;re on the way down from your flight &#8211; i can&#8217;t describe it but it&#8217;s best illustrated with this photo &#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2370183101\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2370\/2370183101_61ddefa753_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>the joy in your face is addictive &#8211; we do everything we can do hear that cackle from you. and that cackle, boy is it infectious!! if i can hear you from another room, i&#8217;ll start laughing myself &#8211; you love to laugh, and i love to hear it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>you&#8217;ve continued your vocal exploration with a high pitch range &#8211; <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=784146&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"showAll\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=784146&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF\" \/><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/784146\/l:embed_784146\">communicates with dogs?<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/thehoyngs\/l:embed_784146\">Jasper<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/l:embed_784146\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>in the past week, you&#8217;ve started to teeth pretty uncomfortably. you&#8217;ve been pre-teething for about 3with  months now, but your bottom two teeth (and i think the top two aswell) are making an appearance and you&#8217;ve been a wee bit clingy (not that i mind at all!!!). we&#8217;re back to 2-5am wake ups during the night, sometimes 3 times a night. you&#8217;ve got flushed little cheeks and have had a bit of a temperature. you find comfort in chewing our fingers, which gives us a chance to feel around in there. i haven&#8217;t got a clear photo of them yet, but they&#8217;re sprouting! i&#8217;m pretty excited for you &#8211; you&#8217;re growing up so fast, it&#8217;s so wonderful to see \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>if teething wasn&#8217;t a big milestone, you&#8217;ve started to sit on your own too \ud83d\ude42 just for a few seconds at first, but you&#8217;re getting stronger and we&#8217;re following your lead. it&#8217;s so amazing (there&#8217;s that word again!) to see you sit up on your own, it blows my mind to see you do things without our help &#8211; you&#8217;re not little bitty baby anymore, though you&#8217;ll always be my baby boy <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2379192329\/\" title=\"duckie jimmy jams! by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3157\/2379192329_2a5c1eaa04_m.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"240\" alt=\"duckie jimmy jams!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>love, your mama xx <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my dearest sweetie pie buttons, loving someone has never been easier than it is to love you. i don&#8217;t think i can express how much we love you &#8211; and how that love grows with every sunrise and sunset. it&#8217;s an amazing thing to see you grow from a newborn baby into a little boy, [&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-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jasper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","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=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}