{"id":7269,"date":"2011-01-13T13:31:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2011-01-13T13:41:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T21:41:35","slug":"growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=7269","title":{"rendered":"Growing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to the director of Zoe&#8217;s preschool today, and she made a comment about Avery. &#8220;It will be lovely to have her here next year,&#8221; she told me, &#8220;and she seems very ready.&#8221; Her words made me smile but also made me think about how old my &#8220;baby&#8221; is getting. Before we know it, she&#8217;s going to be a preschooler!<\/p>\n<p>Q laughs when I fret over Avery growing up: She&#8217;s not even two, he&#8217;ll tell me, and she&#8217;s many, many months (eight, to be exact) away from starting preschool. He&#8217;s right, of course: She&#8217;s still little. But little is a relative term, and it still sometimes takes me off-guard how <em>big<\/em> Avery looks and acts. Whether she&#8217;s playing with her sister, taking a stroll or just sitting around, Avery is clearly no longer a baby! <\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/girls-in-kitchen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/girls-in-kitchen.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"girls in kitchen\" width=\"389\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/girls-in-kitchen.jpg 389w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/girls-in-kitchen-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Avery-walking-with-Daddy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Avery-walking-with-Daddy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Avery walking with Daddy\" width=\"292\" height=\"389\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7272\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Avery-walking-with-Daddy.jpg 292w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Avery-walking-with-Daddy-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Avery-in-car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Avery-in-car.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Avery in car\" width=\"389\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Avery-in-car.jpg 389w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Avery-in-car-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Avery-eating-apple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Avery-eating-apple.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Avery eating apple\" width=\"389\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7273\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Avery-eating-apple.jpg 389w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Avery-eating-apple-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to the director of Zoe&#8217;s preschool today, and she made a comment about Avery. &#8220;It will be lovely to have her here next year,&#8221; she told me, &#8220;and she seems very ready.&#8221; Her words made me smile but also made me think about how old my &#8220;baby&#8221; is getting. Before we know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-54-two-kids-january-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","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=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7285,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions\/7285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}