{"id":976,"date":"2012-10-10T17:08:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T21:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=976"},"modified":"2012-10-10T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T21:08:35","slug":"when-the-baby-is-no-longer-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"When the baby is no longer a baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brendan has not been a baby for a long time.\u00c2\u00a0 Once he decided to no longer wear diapers, that was it (no night time pull ups, no accidents even).\u00c2\u00a0 He talked early (lucky us) and has seemed to want to do things like Aidan for a long time.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s hard to remember him as little sometimes. But he is still the baby.<\/p>\n

But now he’s not a baby.\u00c2\u00a0 He has opinions about his clothes- lots of them in fact.\u00c2\u00a0 He has jobs he does, something we have encouraged in supporting Montessori at home.\u00c2\u00a0 He is a kindergartener. He doesn’t wear a bubble swimming anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 He makes his own lunch. He reads! He does math! He has conversations that seem so grown up!<\/p>\n

Last night he was showing off how he could tie shoes.\u00c2\u00a0 Really?\u00c2\u00a0 When did that happen?<\/p>\n

One thing he loves about school this year is being a big kid.\u00c2\u00a0 The beauty of the third year of Montessori.\u00c2\u00a0 He has been teaching the “morning children” all sorts things- when to have snack, how to set up work on a rug, where to sit in circle time (“Can you believe the morning children think they can sit in the middle of the circle?!”).\u00c2\u00a0 Then in the afternoon he spends time working on letter and numbers and lessons like tying his shoes or, more important to him, braiding!<\/p>\n

He will always be my baby, and thankfully he still loves cuddling (this will never end!!).<\/p>\n

But he is making us proud doing lots of big kid things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brendan has not been a baby for a long time.\u00c2\u00a0 Once he decided to no longer wear diapers, that was it (no night time pull ups, no accidents even).\u00c2\u00a0 He talked early (lucky us) and has seemed to want to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976"}],"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=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}