{"id":274,"date":"2008-07-21T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2009-10-23T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T02:13:21","slug":"birthdays-and-big-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays and Big Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had my first real wave of nostalgia on Saturday, realizing that our little baby boy is growing up.<\/p>\n<p>We attended a neighbor and fellow playgroup friend&#8217;s first birthday party, and there I observed several little boys whom I had seen as newborns, now playing in the dirt, pushing each other around, and &#8220;tearing it up.&#8221; Milo&#8217;s favorite activities were crawling through the tube and pushing a little truck around. Ah, boy stuff.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/SIUO6OXD32I\/AAAAAAAAAlY\/0mDoxjrINCc\/s1600-h\/MiloInTube2.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225599336083349346\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/SIUO6OXD32I\/AAAAAAAAAlY\/0mDoxjrINCc\/s400\/MiloInTube2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/SIUO6FjU-kI\/AAAAAAAAAlg\/rktmU-GjHao\/s1600-h\/MiloinTube.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225599333718882882\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/SIUO6FjU-kI\/AAAAAAAAAlg\/rktmU-GjHao\/s400\/MiloinTube.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/SIUO6fcbpAI\/AAAAAAAAAlo\/x76bamj3AFM\/s1600-h\/MiloAndBrooks.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225599340669281282\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/SIUO6fcbpAI\/AAAAAAAAAlo\/x76bamj3AFM\/s400\/MiloAndBrooks.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Milo and friend Brooks &#8220;sharing&#8221; the truck<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/SIUO6d1KlSI\/AAAAAAAAAlw\/-_grdbWrx7k\/s1600-h\/Finn1stBirthday.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225599340236150050\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/SIUO6d1KlSI\/AAAAAAAAAlw\/-_grdbWrx7k\/s400\/Finn1stBirthday.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The Birthday Boy, Finn and Mom Kathy<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks, Finn and parents, for a wonderful party and great food!<\/p>\n<p>On a totally different note, Milo is officially weaned and still alive! Although he was not a happy camper from about 4:30am until 6:30am, he made it through, and so did I. I&#8217;m a bit sad to say good-bye to such a great nursing experience, but hopefully this new &#8220;no-food-at-night&#8221; policy will encourage better sleep patterns. Wish us luck tonight!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my first real wave of nostalgia on Saturday, realizing that our little baby boy is growing up. We attended a neighbor and fellow playgroup friend&#8217;s first birthday party, and there I observed several little boys whom I had seen as newborns, now playing in the dirt, pushing each other around, and &#8220;tearing it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=274\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birthdays and Big Boys&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,70,80],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baltimore","tag-birthday","tag-weaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}