{"id":21766,"date":"2015-02-19T12:39:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T20:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=21766"},"modified":"2015-02-19T12:39:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T20:39:29","slug":"phases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=21766","title":{"rendered":"Phases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a\u00c2\u00a0parent long enough to know that kids go through various phases &#8211; some short-lived, others on the longer-time side. Both girls\u00c2\u00a0seemingly\u00c2\u00a0entered new ones over the last few weeks: With Zoe, there&#8217;s a lot more tween-like eye-rolling and expressions of\u00c2\u00a0disgust; she started yelling out &#8220;OMG!&#8221; or &#8220;<em>Really<\/em>, Mommy?&#8221; when frustrated. Needless to say, I don&#8217;t love it &#8211; and am hoping it will pass quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Avery, on the other hand, is Miss Lovey-Dovey. Both Q and I have experienced a\u00c2\u00a0marked\u00c2\u00a0increase lately\u00c2\u00a0in the number of hugs and kisses we get and the number of times we hear from her, &#8220;You&#8217;re the best Mommy\/Daddy in the world.&#8221; And her favorite thing to do lately is to snuggle on our bed; she&#8217;ll jump up right next to me, press her face next to mine, and caress my face or stroke my hair. I&#8217;m not sure how long we&#8217;ll get this extra-affectionate treatment, but I&#8217;m eating it up!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a\u00c2\u00a0parent long enough to know that kids go through various phases &#8211; some short-lived, others on the longer-time side. Both girls\u00c2\u00a0seemingly\u00c2\u00a0entered new ones over the last few weeks: With Zoe, there&#8217;s a lot more tween-like eye-rolling and expressions of\u00c2\u00a0disgust; she started yelling out &#8220;OMG!&#8221; or &#8220;Really, Mommy?&#8221; when frustrated. Needless to say, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-87-two-kids-jan-march-15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21766","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=21766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21770,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21766\/revisions\/21770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}