{"id":2937,"date":"2014-03-12T17:04:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T00:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2014-03-12T17:15:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T00:15:24","slug":"cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2937","title":{"rendered":"Cousins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-medium wp-image-2935\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/004.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/004-450x450.jpg\" alt=\"004\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2935\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/004-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/004-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/004-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We got to see my baby nephew Luke in Portland last weekend&#8212;he was the sweetest little thing, with his small kitten cries and his little scrunchy fists. As ill fate would have it, though, I started to develop a cough on the drive up, so I heroically refrained from holding the baby, lest I pass on my germs. It was so hard!<\/p>\n<p>I did get to chat with Masie about just how taxing it is to be the primary caregiver to a newborn. This is one of those things that &#8220;everybody knows,&#8221; so it&#8217;s hard to have a conversation about it except with people who are actually currently engaged in the process&#8212;because if you&#8217;re <em>not<\/em> severely sleep-deprived then you tend to forget just how debilitating it can be. There&#8217;s a relief in talking with somebody who <strong>really<\/strong> knows how difficult (as well as how rewarding) babies can be.<\/p>\n<p>Although my baby? He&#8217;s not a newborn any more. In fact, compared to his cousin, Sol is great big hulking bruiser. Here he is enjoying the &#8220;science playground&#8221; at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-medium wp-image-2936\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/016.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/016-450x450.jpg\" alt=\"016\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2936\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/016-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/016-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/016-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The other kids enjoyed it a lot too, but they were too busy zipping around for me to get good photos. <\/p>\n<p>Now we are home and trying to settle back into our daily routines, although everyone still has a cough and I&#8217;ve got a mild case of pink-eye on top of that. Coming down sick over vacation is so annoying, and yet I suspect it&#8217;s not accidental: in college I used to always get sick whenever I went home for break. It was right after finals, so I&#8217;d always been stressing out and not getting much sleep in the weeks before. I think under those circumstances the body holds up as well as it can, and then as soon as you feel like you can rest and relax, you break down. I dunno. It&#8217;s my theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got to see my baby nephew Luke in Portland last weekend&#8212;he was the sweetest little thing, with his small kitten cries and his little scrunchy fists. As ill fate would have it, though, I started to develop a cough on the drive up, so I heroically refrained from holding the baby, lest I pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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\/2937"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2949,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}