{"id":2728,"date":"2010-04-27T22:37:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T03:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2010-04-27T22:37:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T03:37:43","slug":"letter-to-christian-at-23-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2728","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Christian at 23 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2507.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glee.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nDear Baby,<\/p>\n<p>Forgive my endless hugging and smooching, but you are almost two years old. It is sending me into a near-panic to have you grow up so fast.<br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6FvJWTIYrDM]<br \/>\nI also have moments of wondering if you are going to make it to your second birthday. We got rid of the glass dining table (supported only by a center stand) after we caught you standing on the edge of it &#8211; twice. We locked the living room window to open only two inches after we discovered that you could stand belly to second-story window on the two-inch ledge. This is where a writer&#8217;s imagination does her disservice. I won&#8217;t even go into the horrific images that pass through my terrified mind. You&#8217;re a climber, a daredevil, and you shout &#8220;skateboarder!&#8221; at every punk kid we see.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve taken to putting one foot into a shoe box lid, and pushing yourself down the hallway with your other foot, yelling, &#8220;Look Mama! Ti-ti skateboarding!&#8221; Last week, I found you precariously balanced, both arms outstretched,  on an overturned xerox box <em>on the bed<\/em>. As the box shifted back and forth on top of the comforter and pillows, you shouted, &#8220;Mama! Ti-ti surfing!&#8221; and then with a &#8220;Ti-ti jumping!&#8221; you threw your body off the box and onto the bed with peals of laughter. Action verbs are going to be your thing.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re irresistibly cute and snuggly still, thank goodness. When you say, very clearly, &#8220;I NEED MAMA,&#8221; my heart just about breaks every time.<\/p>\n<p>I love you, Dear.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go have some more fun.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Mama<br \/>\nP.S. In this video, the warm water that Christy is talking about is some other water park &#8211; the water Christian is flinging himself into here in the Children&#8217;s Garden is pretty dang cold.<br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-n1e-KSVTqk]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Baby, Forgive my endless hugging and smooching, but you are almost two years old. It is sending me into a near-panic to have you grow up so fast. [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6FvJWTIYrDM] I also have moments of wondering if you are going &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2728\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-holden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}