{"id":1789,"date":"2014-07-27T08:24:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T12:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2014-08-02T08:29:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T12:29:50","slug":"growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"Growing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7006-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7006\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7006-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7006-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7006.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Sigh. \u00c2\u00a0He&#8217;s getting old.<\/p>\n<p>In a span of 48 hours Aidan told me how he &#8220;chipped in&#8221; with some other yacht club kids to order pizza, emailed his BFF to say he was excited to go with her and her family to Six Flags, went to the Yacht Club dance and started watching Dr. Who.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1795 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1225-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1225\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1225-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1225-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>In the weeks since, he has gone bike riding across the street and crossed himself, made plans with friends and helped Nana program her phone (while talking about a friend having an iTouch).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see his independence and watch him grow. \u00c2\u00a0He is certainly not a little boy anymore. \u00c2\u00a0But it almost seems like overnight- or maybe its the sun and water at the yacht club this summer- that he is\u00c2\u00a0so much older. He&#8217;s becoming a silly, goofy, dorky fun kid you can have a good time with. \u00c2\u00a0He does forget to put sunscreen on though. \u00c2\u00a0And it is hard to get him Minecraft. \u00c2\u00a0The teenage years are fast approaching.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1793 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-26-e1406982267617-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo (26)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-26-e1406982267617-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-26-e1406982267617-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Aidan is\u00c2\u00a0looking forward to next week when he will be going to the Museum of Science for a camp to design video games. \u00c2\u00a0He has a friend who went and said its great but Aidan didn&#8217;t want details so as to not spoil the excitement.<\/p>\n<p>Ready or not, fourth grade here he comes. \u00c2\u00a0Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. \u00c2\u00a0He&#8217;s getting old. In a span of 48 hours Aidan told me how he &#8220;chipped in&#8221; with some other yacht club kids to order pizza, emailed his BFF to say he was excited to go with her and her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1789\">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\/1789"}],"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=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}