{"id":7737,"date":"2014-01-02T23:07:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T04:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2014-01-02T23:07:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T04:07:13","slug":"december-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=7737","title":{"rendered":"December 31."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned our tradition <a href=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=4074\">before<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s one of my favourites. \u00a0Why wait until the end of the day when you can when you can start your day with cake and presents?<\/p>\n<p>What makes it even more fun now, is the joy and excitement it brings both kids. \u00a0Jaia mentioned the night before that she was looking forward to her cupcake in the morning. \u00a0I guess I shouldn&#8217;t have been surprised that she remembered, she&#8217;s been through it herself 6 other times and for each of our birthdays as well. \u00a0But nonetheless, expected or not, getting spoiled first thing in the morning sets the pace for an awesome birthday.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Wes was pumped about waking and surprising his sister.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7738\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8210ed.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8210ed.jpg 750w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8210ed-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8210ed-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8210ed-290x193.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She, on the other hand, seemed a little apprehensive about little brother carrying the fire&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7739\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8212sm.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8212sm.jpg 750w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8212sm-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But birthday cupcakes are worth their weight in gold and there was no convincing necessary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7740\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8232sm.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8232sm.jpg 531w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8232sm-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She even let little brother have a shot. \u00a0He obliged.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7741\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8241sm.jpg\" width=\"548\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8241sm.jpg 548w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8241sm-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love birthdays.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7742\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8248sm.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8248sm.jpg 531w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8248sm-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned our tradition before. \u00a0It&#8217;s one of my favourites. \u00a0Why wait until the end of the day when you can when you can start your day with cake and presents? What makes it even more fun now, is the joy and excitement it brings both kids. \u00a0Jaia mentioned the night before that she was [&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":[6,14,26,37,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737"}],"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=7737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7743,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions\/7743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}