{"id":679,"date":"2009-12-09T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T19:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2012-01-22T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T16:17:09","slug":"opportunities-one-two-and-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities One, Two, and Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Somehow it has been almost an entire month since my last post. And somehow in that time my newborn baby has grown into a four-month-old who lifts his body up on two rubber-band chunky arms, enjoys “talking,” intently watches his big brother’s every move, and kicks his legs and waves his arms like a maniac in the bathtub out of shear joy. He suddenly looks so big to me when he is still so small. Don’t grow so fast, you! I’m trying to enjoy this for Pete’s sake! Whoever Pete is! And now I’m just yelling!<\/p>\n

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I cherish this time of year… the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas that is so magical. I cherish it so much that I forget to take pictures. Thanksgiving pictures, to be specific. So the huge holiday feast that we hosted, and our first Thanksgiving where we actually had several family\u00a0 members over, is long gone and only a memory in my head now. But it was fantastic and I will do it again and again and again despite all the hard work and cleaning and chaos. I love it.<\/p>\n

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Cuz Liam<\/em>, oh fair one<\/p>\n

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Baby devour-ers<\/em><\/p>\n

What I do have pictures of is just as magical. The first time we left our little ones overnight. I know. Milo’s two years old. But with family so far away, we rarely get the opportunity.<\/p>\n

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Hello, opportunity.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nice to meet you.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The matriarch of Andrew’s family, Gina, with five children, a perpetually full and busy and joyfully noisy house, big sister to 8 brothers and sisters, one who puts up with everything and has a solution to anything… and a positive attitude to boot… thank you.<\/p>\n

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And opportunity #2: Michael-dad, oh patient and wise one<\/em><\/p>\n

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Slide whistle. Who knew my kid could play one?<\/em><\/p>\n

And the reason for the season: wedding time for old friend Dave. He and Anna are a fantastically perfect match, which, if you know them each separately says it all. And I mean that as a compliment. They are literally perfect for each other.<\/p>\n

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Kind of like two other weirdos I know<\/em><\/p>\n

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You did WHAT with your breast pump?!<\/em><\/p>\n

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One more opportunity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Don’t worry, if you don’t feel like dragging your two kids and 97 bags through the aiport, we’ll just fly\u00a0 you home on this airplane we have here in our field. Oh, and there will be a van waiting for you to drive you to Long-term Parking A when you get there. And both of your kids will sleep on the entire flight to DC because we’ve taken the liberty to wear them out sufficiently so you can rest. <\/em><\/p>\n

Remind me to never complain about anything ever again.<\/p>\n

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Somehow it has been almost an entire month since my last post. And somehow in that time my newborn baby has grown into a four-month-old who lifts his body up on two rubber-band chunky arms, enjoys “talking,” intently watches his big brother’s every move, and kicks his legs and waves his arms like a maniac … Continue reading “Opportunities One, Two, and Three”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[53,60,66,82,54],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-airplane","tag-extended-family","tag-holidays","tag-pureembarassment","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}