{"id":2578,"date":"2009-06-01T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2009-06-01T18:26:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T01:26:14","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2578","title":{"rendered":"End of an era &#8211; ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q and I have been a little lazy with the whole potty-training thing, but we recently decided to make a last-minute push (no pun intended) before the new baby arrives. After a couple of promising attempts, Zoe went the entire day without diapers or accidents yesterday. And when she woke up this morning, the first thing she said to me was, &#8220;I&#8217;m wet. Will you change me, Mommy?&#8221; (The first thing she <em>normally<\/em> asks for is milk.) It feels like this is the beginning of the end of the diaper era, and I&#8217;m pretty excited about it &#8211; but not for the reasons you might think. My happiness has less to do with the hassle of changing her (which, after 2.5 years, I&#8217;m used to) and more to do with the pride I see on Zoe&#8217;s face every time she does her &#8220;big girl&#8221; thing. She gets so excited when we praise her, and you can tell she feels good about pleasing us. (She also, in turn, likes to cheer us on: over the weekend, she started clapping when she saw me going to the bathroom. &#8220;Good job, Mommy!&#8221;) <\/p>\n<p>I know we&#8217;ve got some more work to do, and there&#8217;s a (good) chance Zoe will regress when the baby arrives. But for now: I&#8217;m a pretty proud mama. <\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q and I have been a little lazy with the whole potty-training thing, but we recently decided to make a last-minute push (no pun intended) before the new baby arrives. After a couple of promising attempts, Zoe went the entire day without diapers or accidents yesterday. And when she woke up this morning, the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-34two-and-a-half-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","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=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}