{"id":235,"date":"2007-08-01T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T15:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/2007\/08\/01\/day-213-already-7-months-old\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T15:31:15","slug":"day-213-already-7-months-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Day 213 &#8211; Already 7 months old."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_0677sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/dsc_0677sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1221\" alt=\"dsc_0677sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/dsc_0677sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Jaia was brand new, I had friends who had babies that were just a little older and when we would get together I would get to see what the next milestone was.\u00a0 At the time, I couldn&#8217;t even imagine Jaia being able to hold her head up or smile or sit up.\u00a0 And although I never ever wished time away, I was incredibly curious about what it would be like when Jaia was able to do all of those things and more.<\/p>\n<p>And then I blinked.<\/p>\n<p>And she turned 7 months old.\u00a0\u00a0And she can do all those things.\u00a0 As I watch\u00a0Jaia sitting up and playing quietly (or not so quietly) on the floor, I forget what it was like to have to hold her head up or lean her against the back and arm of the couch to prop her up.\u00a0 Or as I tuck her in for the night, I (almost) forget what it was like to get up every two hours to feed her or that I was terrified for her to sleep all alone in her giant crib.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_0565-1sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/dsc_0565-1sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1222\" alt=\"dsc_0565-1sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/dsc_0565-1sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The past 7 months have been amazing, life-changing and perfect.\u00a0 The only thing I would change would be to have our family live closer to us (or us to them) so they could share in her everyday life with us&#8230;and\u00a0so they\u00a0could babysit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_0516sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/dsc_0516sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1225\" alt=\"dsc_0516sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/dsc_0516sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jaia was brand new, I had friends who had babies that were just a little older and when we would get together I would get to see what the next milestone was.\u00a0 At the time, I couldn&#8217;t even imagine Jaia being able to hold her head up or smile or sit up.\u00a0 And although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}