{"id":1852,"date":"2008-08-26T15:48:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T22:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2008-08-26T15:48:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T22:48:49","slug":"babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of little kids, Zoe has a fascination with babies. For many months, starting when she could first talk, she would point at a stroller (or anything that looked like a stroller, such as a shopping cart) and say, &#8220;ba-bee.&#8221; She loves cuddling and feeding her toy babies, and one of her favorite things to watch on TV (well, the only thing we actually <em>let <\/em>her watch on TV) is <a href=\"http:\/\/atv.disney.go.com\/playhouse\/gobaby\/index.html\">Go Baby<\/a>, a 5-min, partially animated show about, yep, babies. And whenever she sees a real baby (like she did this weekend), she always runs up and starts to smile or jump around. <\/p>\n<p>Like a lot of parents, I still consider my baby, well, a baby. But as I watched Zoe and Gabbie this weekend, and observed all the things that Zoe could do that this little 6-month-old couldn&#8217;t (walk, run, talk, laugh, point, grab things, etc.), I couldn&#8217;t deny it anymore: Zoe&#8217;s not a baby anymore. With all her newly acquired skills, she&#8217;s actually more like a little adult than she is a helpless baby, and it makes me sad\/proud\/nostalgic\/excited all at the same time. <\/p>\n<p>Now I know what all those people meant when they said kids grow so fast!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1851\" alt=with-gillie.JPG src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/with-gillie.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of little kids, Zoe has a fascination with babies. For many months, starting when she could first talk, she would point at a stroller (or anything that looked like a stroller, such as a shopping cart) and say, &#8220;ba-bee.&#8221; She loves cuddling and feeding her toy babies, and one of her favorite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25twenty-one-to-twenty-two-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","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=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}