{"id":10333,"date":"2011-11-06T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=10333"},"modified":"2011-11-07T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T22:38:21","slug":"magic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=10333","title":{"rendered":"Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t talked about it much lately, but putting Avery to bed continues to be fairly easy. (Of course, she may not go to <em>sleep<\/em> right away, as shown below &#8211; but that&#8217;s a different story.) Bedtime is also one of my favorite times with her. Many nights I sit and sing a song to her in the dark; often times she interrupts me and says, &#8220;Avery&#8217;s turn!&#8221; and takes over. (The Itsy Bitsy Spider and the ABCs are still favorites; she also recently started singing Bingo and Old MacDonald.) Other times I ask her about her classmates (&#8220;Is there a Mona in your class?&#8221;), and she loves it when I throw in a wrong name. (&#8220;No Penelope!&#8221; she&#8217;ll cry out with a big laugh.)<\/p>\n<p>And then there are the nights when we just talk quietly and she puts her little face just inches from mine. One night, as I often do, I whispered in her ear that she&#8217;s the best thing that has ever happened to me, and she responded by gentily stroking my cheek with her little hand. For a little girl who doesn&#8217;t talk that much (yet) she said volumes with this action. And for me, moments like these are pure magic &#8211; ones that make me wish I could bottle them up and keep with me forever and ones that make me feel like I&#8217;m the luckiest girl in the world.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t talked about it much lately, but putting Avery to bed continues to be fairly easy. (Of course, she may not go to sleep right away, as shown below &#8211; but that&#8217;s a different story.) Bedtime is also one of my favorite times with her. Many nights I sit and sing a song to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-64-two-kids-november-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10333"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10714,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333\/revisions\/10714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}