{"id":931,"date":"2009-06-17T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T02:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/?p=931"},"modified":"2009-06-17T19:26:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T03:26:53","slug":"been-a-bit-lets-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"treasuring you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m four (holding up four fingers).  But I&#8217;m about to get five.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen someone asks you how old you are, this is your standard response.<\/p>\n<p>Four is SUCH a fantastic age!  You melt my heart at the most random times.  You are unbelievably sincere, crazy passionate, super energetic and wonderfully tender.  I can&#8217;t possibly predict how, but you surprise me in some wonderful way every time I get to spend some focused time with you- like every night at bedtime.  Tonight, after books, you stand up quickly and announce &#8220;Tonight I&#8217;m going to say my bless-you&#8217;s this way&#8221; and you walked over and knelt next to your bed and started your prayers, &#8220;Dear God, Thank you for Mommi, Daddy Jim&#8230; &#8221; ending with &#8220;and the whole wide world.&#8221;  I asked about a sick friend of ours, and you said matter-of-factly, &#8220;I did. She is part of my whole world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We had the sweetest rocking time, and after having our normal whisper conversation about random things, you fell sound asleep on my lap. That hasn&#8217;t happened a while&#8230; I continued to rock for a very long time&#8230; treasuring the moment, treasuring you.<\/p>\n<p>I so love you Peanut Butter!!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_1636.jpg' title='sleeping'><img src='http:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_1636.jpg' alt='sleeping' \/><\/a><br \/>\nI took this picture of you sleeping on my lap tonight&#8230; at the end of our day. I love spending my days with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m four (holding up four fingers). But I&#8217;m about to get five.&#8221; When someone asks you how old you are, this is your standard response. Four is SUCH a fantastic age! You melt my heart at the most random times. You are unbelievably sincere, crazy passionate, super energetic and wonderfully tender. I can&#8217;t possibly predict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littleraz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}