
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":1051,"date":"2008-05-02T20:59:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T10:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2008-05-05T09:57:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T23:57:12","slug":"newsletter-month-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/1051\/","title":{"rendered":"newsletter: month six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>six months has flown by &#8211; HALF A YEAR! you&#8217;re now six months old<\/p>\n<p>time sure does fly when you&#8217;re utterly and totally in love with a little boy like you, my dear JJ.. yes we still think your poop is cool, we still smile during the hard times, we still laugh whenever you do <em>anything<\/em>. everything that you do will always amaze and excite us. <\/p>\n<p>about 4 or 5 weeks ago, your little teeth started to pop through &#8211; and i managed to get a photo a few weeks ago :<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2389500288\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2189\/2389500288_c9b712cc02_m.jpg\" width=\"236\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>they&#8217;re still about the same now (except for a few millimetres that have seemed to have grown since 9am this morning!) &#8211; and you&#8217;ve still got your nights were you wake up from the pain, but overall you&#8217;re doing really well with it now \ud83d\ude42  <\/p>\n<p>you&#8217;re becoming more aware of things &#8211; and have taken to holding your own bottle and feeding yourself sometimes &#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2399757306\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3288\/2399757306_75fa9bdbd6_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"120\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>it&#8217;s very strange to see you do new things like this all of a sudden, you&#8217;re growing! and to help you grow, we&#8217;ve started you on solids. currently, you&#8217;ve eaten and loved everything that we&#8217;ve given you including &#8211; rice cereal, pumpkin, apple &#038; pear, banana and the sweet corn &#038; chicken tinned baby food. you&#8217;re such a good eater, but then again that&#8217;s no surprise &#8211; look at your daddy and grandpa. it&#8217;s inevitable!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2399757352\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3121\/2399757352_7a2ffe4a3b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>you took your first real trip to the city a couple of weeks ago, you were pampered and piled with kisses and hugs. your aunties literally scooped you out of your pram and paraded you around your daddy&#8217;s entire workplace but you didn&#8217;t mind all the attention &#8211; you smiled and stared at every new face you saw. when all the comotion settled down, you closed your eyes and slept while aunty hayley and i walked around my old shopping haunts..<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2429932927\/\" title=\"george st by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3125\/2429932927_54e8cd55d8_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"george st\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>you&#8217;re such a cheeky little boy, my Jasper.. you&#8217;re rolling into all sorts of mischief &#8211; often we&#8217;ll put you down on the floor for some tummy time (which you still love) and all of a sudden you&#8217;re tugging on my pant leg \ud83d\ude42 you still pull the craziest faces out of nowhere &#8211; exhibit A <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2406702361\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3046\/2406702361_2eff0acecb_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>lately you&#8217;ve taken to staring at my hair and twiddling it through your fingers like it&#8217;s the greatest thing ever&#8230; your own hair has grown a centimetre &#8211; we can *almost* comb it, but i&#8217;m scared will comb it straight off your head \ud83d\ude1b <\/p>\n<p>and you&#8217;ve started to say &#8216;da da da&#8217; much to your dad&#8217;s delight! (&#8216;mama&#8217; is coming soon right?) we know it&#8217;s not actual talk because you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re saying &#8230; but it&#8217;s still really really cute! <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" data=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=950744&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&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=950744&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF\" \/><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/950744\/l:embed_950744\">dad da da da da<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/thehoyngs\/l:embed_950744\">Jasper<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/l:embed_950744\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>you&#8217;re sitting up really well now &#8211; very straight and tall \ud83d\ude42 often, you&#8217;ll want to sit up straight in your bouncer, and you love sitting in your high chair &#8211; especially when i&#8217;m in the kitchen. you know how to cook risotto now! but you&#8217;re still afraid of aluminium foil<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/traceytakesphotos\/2447471904\/\" title=\"Untitled by traceytakesphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3108\/2447471904_ee79bee7d9_m.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>and weaning you off the bouncer is starting off well &#8211; you&#8217;ve just fallen asleep on your play mat for the first time (other than your last wind down which you have no problems doing every night before bed)  &#8211; absolutely no bouncing involved! we&#8217;re so proud, we thought you&#8217;d be taking that bouncer everywhere for the next 30 years &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>your grandma sharon and uncle ryan will be visiting in a couple of weeks. they&#8217;re coming all the way from america just to see you and they can&#8217;t wait! we can&#8217;t wait either &#8211; we already know how much they love you, meeting you is just going to send them over into ga ga land. <\/p>\n<p>we love you so much baba, you&#8217;re such a joy. i&#8217;m so excited for your future and so happy to take you there &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>6 month stats-<br \/>\nweight: 8.61kg<br \/>\nheight: 70cms<br \/>\nshots: 2 in the legs, no crying \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>six months has flown by &#8211; HALF A YEAR! you&#8217;re now six months old time sure does fly when you&#8217;re utterly and totally in love with a little boy like you, my dear JJ.. yes we still think your poop is cool, we still smile during the hard times, we still laugh whenever you do [&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-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jasper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","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=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}