{"id":175,"date":"2008-08-14T12:05:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2009-01-13T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T19:05:17","slug":"scenes-from-a-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from a Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3079\/2763548450_315c49f982.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Robin had his first birthday this week!\u00a0 We took the train up to Reno to celebrate the day with Nonna, Pappy, the Anti-Sara, and Great-Grandma Elsie.\u00a0 The train ride was super fun: we saw beautiful scenery and chatted with nice folks, and Robin had a lot better time crawling up and down the aisles of the train than he would have strapped into a car seat.<\/p>\n<p>I baked a carrot cake for Robin&#8217;s birthday and we strung up some crepe paper and decorations:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3053\/2762704783_d55fb01873.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Robin had no idea what was going on, of course, although he enjoyed a few bites of cake, and he seemed to really like it when we all sang &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; at him.\u00a0 He got many lovely presents, but his favorite of all was that purple flowered bag you can see in the picture.\u00a0 He spent quite a lot of time happily playing with the bag once it had been emptied of presents.<\/p>\n<p>I had the bittersweet thought that one eighteenth of Robin&#8217;s time in our care has already elapsed.\u00a0 It seems unreal.\u00a0 At the same time, though, one year old is a <em>good<\/em> age.\u00a0 Robin&#8217;s now active and communicative enough to be interesting and fun, but he&#8217;s also still cuddly and small, the perfect size for picking up and snuggling.\u00a0 Yesterday he grabbed my shirt, pulled himself close to my face, and planted a deliberate, sloppy kiss right on me.\u00a0 I got all misty.\u00a0 We are so blessedly lucky.\u00a0 I&#8217;m filled with gratitude for the year we have had, and for the years we have ahead.\u00a0 Robin&#8217;s too young to know what a birthday means, but to me it was profoundly significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin had his first birthday this week!\u00a0 We took the train up to Reno to celebrate the day with Nonna, Pappy, the Anti-Sara, and Great-Grandma Elsie.\u00a0 The train ride was super fun: we saw beautiful scenery and chatted with nice folks, and Robin had a lot better time crawling up and down the aisles of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}