{"id":2082,"date":"2009-10-24T23:35:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T03:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2009-12-08T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T21:00:40","slug":"5-years-old-aka-happy-birthday-carolyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2009\/10\/5-years-old-aka-happy-birthday-carolyn\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Years Old, aka Happy Birthday, Carolyn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Carolyn,<\/p>\n<p>Today you are five.\u00a0 Five seems so old, doesn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 Last year I was worried about you turning four, because it seemed like I was losing my baby.\u00a0 But this year I was excited for you to turn five.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve been excited too!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2083\" title=\"20091010_book\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/carolyn\/20091010_book.jpg\" alt=\"20091010_book\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nSince your birthday party is tomorrow, we spent the day doing other things.\u00a0 We started out with chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast &#8211; your favorite.\u00a0 After that, you had a friend&#8217;s birthday party to go to.\u00a0 Then you and I ran some errands to get ready for your party tomorrow and for Uncle Dan and Aunt Genevra&#8217;s wedding next weekend.\u00a0 After our errands, we hung out at home for a bit and opened your presents, and then you picked the local Mexican restaurant for dinner.\u00a0 They brought you your own fried ice cream for dessert!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2084\" title=\"20091003_purplehat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/carolyn\/20091003_purplehat.jpg\" alt=\"20091003_purplehat\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nWe had an exhausting but good day, and we&#8217;re just about ready for the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">invasion<\/span> party tomorrow.\u00a0 I still can&#8217;t believe my little girl is five!\u00a0 There are so many things you can do all by yourself now, and so many things you know.\u00a0 But you&#8217;re still my sweet baby, and always will be!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2085\" title=\"20091024_five\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/carolyn\/20091024_five.jpg\" alt=\"20091024_five\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nLove, Mommy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Carolyn, Today you are five.\u00a0 Five seems so old, doesn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 Last year I was worried about you turning four, because it seemed like I was losing my baby.\u00a0 But this year I was excited for you to turn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn-monthly-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}