{"id":4312,"date":"2015-01-15T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T17:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2015-01-15T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T17:48:40","slug":"toddlers-are-terrific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2015\/01\/toddlers-are-terrific\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddlers are Terrific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes\u00a0I wish I could completely freeze him at this perfect age, but then I&#8217;d miss out on all the future fun things he&#8217;ll learn how to do!<\/p>\n<p>So, random bits of fun cuteness, courtesy of\u00a016 month old Matthew:<\/p>\n<p>1. He\u00a0absolutely thinks the dog is underfed. \u00a0No matter what he&#8217;s eating, he will always share with Murphy &#8211; even bacon! \u00a0Poor Murphy is very conflicted about this. \u00a0He has a choice between running away from the maniacal toddler yelling &#8220;dah-dah-dah-dah&#8221; (&#8220;dah&#8221; is Matthew&#8217;s attempt at saying &#8220;dog&#8221;) or risking chokehold hugs in exchange for sharing the contents of the snack cup.<\/p>\n<p>2. He hums. \u00a0Like all the time. \u00a0Mostly &#8220;twinkle twinkle little star&#8221; (or the alphabet song, hard to say without words) but also &#8220;frere jacques&#8221;, &#8220;old macdonald&#8221; and other unidentified (yet) snippets of things.<\/p>\n<p>3. The organ sound on the digital piano is his most very favorite sound, and he will bang out long, loud, discordant chords and laugh maniacally. \u00a0Pretty sure he&#8217;s got the whole &#8220;mad scientist evil organ music&#8221; thing down.<\/p>\n<p>4. When we listen to songs from my\u00a0latest musical in the car, and they get to that ending\u00a0chord\u00a0hit (the &#8220;button&#8221;) he giggles hysterically. \u00a0Piano glissandos ending in a big octave hit cause the same reaction. \u00a0He does it *every single time*. \u00a0I think it&#8217;s like the auditory equivalent to a jack-in-the-box: predictable, but still somewhat surprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes\u00a0I wish I could completely freeze him at this perfect age, but then I&#8217;d miss out on all the future fun things he&#8217;ll learn how to do! So, random bits of fun cuteness, courtesy of\u00a016 month old Matthew: 1. He\u00a0absolutely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew","tag-random-bits-of-cuteness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","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=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4313,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}