{"id":1096,"date":"2013-03-08T11:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2013-03-08T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:25:36","slug":"8-is-great-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"8 is great&#8230;I think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?attachment_id=1097\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1097\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1097\" alt=\"IMG_3998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_3998-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_3998-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_3998-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aidan turned the big 8 last week.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a full weekend of birthday celebrations.\u00c2\u00a0 Friday he brought cupcakes to school and competed in his swim meet.\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday was our family party.\u00c2\u00a0 Then Sunday was his Harry Potter Bowling Party for his friends.\u00c2\u00a0 It was exhausting but fun.\u00c2\u00a0 He loved every minute of it.<\/p>\n<p>He is a great son and wonderful brother.\u00c2\u00a0 He is loving and caring.\u00c2\u00a0 He is compassionate.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact day of his birthday he received the award for his class for February&#8217;s school wide theme- compassion.<\/p>\n<p>Eight means no more booster seat.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s a big change.\u00c2\u00a0 Eight means a little more freedom (to be negotiated).\u00c2\u00a0 Eight means, according to Aidan, half way to getting his license.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where the time went.\u00c2\u00a0 At Aidan&#8217;s family party baby Angela, barely two weeks old came to celebrate.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember Aidan that small.\u00c2\u00a0 Where did eight years go?\u00c2\u00a0 Lots of laughter, lots of adventures, lots of fun, lots of moments of disbelief over the remarkable young man growing up before our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>We are so lucky to have him in our lives.\u00c2\u00a0 I just wish some days, time could slow down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?attachment_id=36\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36\" alt=\"Aidan 3.09\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/obrienstudio5blog-181x300.jpg\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/obrienstudio5blog-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/obrienstudio5blog.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/a><em>Aidan, age 4<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aidan turned the big 8 last week.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a full weekend of birthday celebrations.\u00c2\u00a0 Friday he brought cupcakes to school and competed in his swim meet.\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday was our family party.\u00c2\u00a0 Then Sunday was his Harry Potter Bowling Party &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1096\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}