{"id":7794,"date":"2014-05-16T22:08:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T02:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2014-05-16T22:08:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T02:08:53","slug":"birthday-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=7794","title":{"rendered":"Birthday boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read that if you can do something in 5 minutes, you should do it then. \u00a0If you wait, it won&#8217;t get done. \u00a0Or it&#8217;ll just pile up with all the rest of the things that you don&#8217;t find time to do.<\/p>\n<p>So this year. I am not waiting 6 months to post birthday pics. \u00a0In fact, some years I&#8217;m not sure I ever got to them. \u00a0And then when I&#8217;m feeling nostalgic and I go back into the archives, huge moments are missing. \u00a0And for me, birthdays are HUGE. \u00a0I love them and I make sure we celebrate the hell out of them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7796\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_3238sm-680x1024.jpg\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_3238sm-680x1024.jpg 680w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_3238sm-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_3238sm.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday Wesley turned 4. \u00a0I could tell you that time is passing too quickly, and that I miss my baby &#8211; all true &#8211; but mostly \u00a0I am totally and madly in love with my 4 year old boy. \u00a0He Is hilarious (truly), clever, cuddly and sweet. \u00a0His personality is huge, but his heart is even bigger.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s funny, is that while adults typically wish they could slow down time, Wesley has been aching to turn 4 for months. Almost daily, he would ask how long until he would be a big boy. \u00a0And to Wes, a 4 year old = a big boy. \u00a0As soon as it was reasonable, we made a countdown chain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7795\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_3236sm.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_3236sm.jpg 750w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_3236sm-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then, suddenly, it was here. \u00a0And with Grandma and Grandpa in town, we celebrated in style. \u00a0As Fullertons do, Wesley started off the day with a cupcake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7797\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_3247sm.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_3247sm.jpg 750w, http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_3247sm-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And he was not at all sad about it.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, sweet Wes. \u00a0Let&#8217;s enjoy 4 for a little while before we start counting down to 5, ok?<\/p>\n<p>xoxo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read that if you can do something in 5 minutes, you should do it then. \u00a0If you wait, it won&#8217;t get done. \u00a0Or it&#8217;ll just pile up with all the rest of the things that you don&#8217;t find time to do. So this year. I am not waiting 6 months to post birthday [&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":[6,29,37,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794"}],"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=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7798,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions\/7798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}