{"id":11689,"date":"2012-02-10T17:46:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T01:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=11689"},"modified":"2012-02-10T17:46:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T01:46:45","slug":"the-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=11689","title":{"rendered":"The little things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a 2.5-year-old, it&#8217;s the\u00c2\u00a0little things that remind you of how special\u00c2\u00a0they are and make your heart feel like melting. Like yesterday morning, when\u00c2\u00a0Avery ran off after hearing Q and I talk about wearing a suit to work &#8211; and then reappeared carrying a little green swimming suit that she had plucked from her drawer. (&#8220;Suit!&#8221; she cried out, holding it up\u00c2\u00a0happily.) Or last night at bedtime\u00c2\u00a0when she asked if she could have more ice-cream after her &#8220;nap.&#8221; Or\u00c2\u00a0a few nights\u00c2\u00a0prior\u00c2\u00a0when I went to tuck her in (again), and her quiet voice called from the dark, &#8220;&#8216;Happy you&#8217;re here, Mama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I know this phase doesn&#8217;t last long, so I&#8217;ve got to soak\u00c2\u00a0it all\u00c2\u00a0in while I can.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a 2.5-year-old, it&#8217;s the\u00c2\u00a0little things that remind you of how special\u00c2\u00a0they are and make your heart feel like melting. Like yesterday morning, when\u00c2\u00a0Avery ran off after hearing Q and I talk about wearing a suit to work &#8211; and then reappeared carrying a little green swimming suit that she had plucked from her drawer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-67-two-kids-february-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689","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=11689"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11771,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions\/11771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}