{"id":2263,"date":"2010-01-12T21:47:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2010-01-28T10:16:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:16:53","slug":"eighteen-months-old-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2010\/01\/eighteen-months-old-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighteen Months Old!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Anna,<\/p>\n<p>Today you are eighteen months old.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a year and a half &#8211; we&#8217;re halfway to two already since your birthday, which doesn&#8217;t seem like it was all that long ago! You have 10 teeth now: two of your molars have poked through.\u00a0 Hey, if you get a couple more teeth in soon I might not need to cut your food into such teeny-tiny pieces anymore!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2264\" title=\"20100101_ball\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/anna\/20100101_ball.jpg\" alt=\"20100101_ball\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nYour favorite words and your obsessions are one and the same.\u00a0 You love Dora.\u00a0 I cannot stress this enough; love may not even be a strong enough word.\u00a0 Dora, Boots, Backpack&#8230;they&#8217;re practically all you talk about.\u00a0 Also, Elmo.\u00a0 I really, truly don&#8217;t understand the appeal, but you do love that furry red squeaky monster.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 It causes you fits of baby rage that I won&#8217;t let you watch unlimited amounts of Dora and Sesame Street daily, but as I&#8217;ve already told you many, many times, I&#8217;m the meanest Mommy you&#8217;re ever going to have, so you&#8217;ll just have to learn to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2266\" title=\"20100112_kisses\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/anna\/20100112_kisses.jpg\" alt=\"20100112_kisses\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;re not begging for &#8220;mo&#8217; Do-la&#8221;, you&#8217;ve been enjoying playing with the Potato Head set you got for Christmas, and stacking things like blocks and cups.\u00a0 You also really love to color, although you have the words crayon and paper mixed up for some reason.\u00a0 The other day I got out the sticker box, and you and Carrie spent the better part of an hour sticking stickers all over construction paper.\u00a0 Somehow it didn&#8217;t seem to make a dent in the sticker collection, either&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2265\" title=\"20100113_annabear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/anna\/20100113_annabear.jpg\" alt=\"20100113_annabear\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nYou&#8217;re still napping and sleeping well, and are especially loving the new toddler pillow you got for Christmas.\u00a0 It has monkeys, stars and moons on it.\u00a0 As long as you have your pillow, your blanket, your quilt, your dolly, your baby, your Minnie, your aquarium, and your lullaby CD, you are all set at night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2267\" title=\"20100111_hug_me\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/anna\/20100111_hug_me.jpg\" alt=\"20100111_hug_me\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nSo.\u00a0 You&#8217;re eighteen months old now.\u00a0 Which means, you are a Big Girl.\u00a0 And Big Girls don&#8217;t sit in a high chair anymore.\u00a0 Big Girls also will not be carried up or down stairs, will not be fed by anyone else in any manner, and must be treated equally to the big sister.\u00a0 I had forgotten how <em>interesting<\/em> eighteen months could be.\u00a0 Luckily, Big Girls are also sweet and funny and adorable, so I think we&#8217;ll both survive.\u00a0 At least until nineteen months, anyway!<\/p>\n<p>Love, Mommy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Anna, Today you are eighteen months old.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a year and a half &#8211; we&#8217;re halfway to two already since your birthday, which doesn&#8217;t seem like it was all that long ago! You have 10 teeth now: two of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anna-monthly-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","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=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}