{"id":2059,"date":"2011-05-18T02:05:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T02:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2024-09-15T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T19:29:40","slug":"five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2011\/05\/18\/five\/","title":{"rendered":"Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the midst of some crazy times in our house. S. was away at a work conference for a couple days. She now works eight straight days. I have a couple work assignments coming up, and really could be working almost every night if S. was not. C. finishes school this week, M. next week. Next Friday we&#8217;re off to South Carolina for a week.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and C. turned five yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, a lot of stuff going on.<\/p>\n<p>C.&#8217;s birthday was fairly low key, but she&#8217;s getting to stretch it out for awhile to make up for it. She got to celebrate in school on Monday. We had balloons, she opened presents (A Razor scooter and a new game for her Leapster), and had cupcakes yesterday. And Friday she&#8217;s having a group of friends join her at a bounce place for a few hours of jumping around, pizza, and cake. Five does not suck, at least for her.<\/p>\n<p>So how is C.? As I seem to always say, C. is C.. She&#8217;s our Most child. She&#8217;s the most sweet and the most maddening. She&#8217;s the most focused when in the right mood, and the most easily distracted the rest of the time. She&#8217;s the most girly and the most tomboyish. She&#8217;s the most emotional. She&#8217;s the most silly. The most likely to be doing something she shouldn&#8217;t. Whatever she does, chances are it&#8217;s going to be off the charts in one direction or another.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s come a long way this year at school and we&#8217;re excited to see her blossom when she hits kindergarten next year. She will do the same thing M. did: go through kindergarten at preschool then repeat it the following year at M.&#8217;s current school. That worked well for M., and while C. isn&#8217;t as young in her class as M. was, it feels like she could use that extra year even more than M. did.<\/p>\n<p>I remember just before C. was born being worried about how I would learn to love a second child as much as I loved my first. Turns out it was easy, as it was easy to learn to love #3 when she came along. C. doesn&#8217;t always make it easy for us 1, but I&#8217;m quite proud of our little five-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday she nearly ran off the sidewalk in front of a car, sprayed Pledge all over the kitchen floor, soaked two towels while &amp;#8220;getting a drink of water&amp;#8221;, pouted the entire time we were walking through the mall, left the house without a jacket, took one of L.&#8217;s toys from her. I blame her for my slightly elevated blood pressure.\u00a0\u21a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the midst of some crazy times in our house. S. was away at a work conference for a couple days. She now works eight straight days. I have a couple work assignments coming up, and really could be working almost every night if S. was not. C. finishes school this week, M. next week. Next Friday we&#8217;re off to South Carolina for a week. Oh, and C. turned five yesterday. Like I said, a lot of stuff going on. C.&#8217;s birthday was fairly low key, but she&#8217;s getting to stretch it out for awhile to make up for it. She got to celebrate in school on Monday. We had balloons, she opened presents (A Razor scooter and a new game for her Leapster), and had cupcakes yesterday. And Friday she&#8217;s having a group of friends join her at a bounce place for a few hours of jumping around, pizza, and cake. Five does not suck, at least for her. So how is C.? As I seem to always say, C. is C.. She&#8217;s our Most child. She&#8217;s the most sweet and the most maddening. She&#8217;s the most focused when in the right mood, and the most easily distracted the rest of the time. She&#8217;s the most girly and the most tomboyish. She&#8217;s the most emotional. She&#8217;s the most silly. The most likely to be doing something she shouldn&#8217;t. Whatever she does, chances are it&#8217;s going to be off the charts in one direction or another. She&#8217;s come a long way this year at school and we&#8217;re excited to see her blossom when she hits kindergarten next year. She will do the same thing M. did: go through kindergarten at preschool then repeat it the following year at M.&#8217;s current school. That worked well for M., and while C. isn&#8217;t as young in her class as M. was, it feels like she could use that extra year even more than M. did. I remember just before C. was born being worried about how I would learn to love a second child as much as I loved my first. Turns out it was easy, as it was easy to learn to love #3 when she came along. C. doesn&#8217;t always make it easy for us 1, but I&#8217;m quite proud of our little five-year-old. \u2756 Yesterday she nearly ran off the sidewalk in front of a car, sprayed Pledge all over the kitchen floor, soaked two towels while &amp;#8220;getting a drink of water&amp;#8221;, pouted the entire time we were walking through the mall, left the house without a jacket, took one of L.&#8217;s toys from her. I blame her for my slightly elevated blood pressure.\u00a0\u21a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,14],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-parenting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14767,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/14767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}