{"id":1161,"date":"2008-01-19T20:13:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T01:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/simons-party\/"},"modified":"2016-08-14T13:41:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T18:41:54","slug":"simons-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/simons-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon’s party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phew! For nine months, I’ve been worried that the Player to be Named Later would arrive just in time to disrupt Simon’s birthday party. That’s not to say he might not still arrive on his due date to share Simon’s actual birthday, but at least we made it through the party uninterrupted!<\/p>\n

We kept things small, easy and, quite frankly, easy to cancel or reschedule! We invited only family or friends so close they may as well be family. We met at a local indoor playground and let the kids play out some energy before inviting them back to our place for cake and prezzies.<\/p>\n

\"Simon<\/a>
\nSimon charmed the grown-ups by taking quite seriously my admonition to take care of his friend Amelia, and held her hand the first 10 minutes we were there.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Coffee<\/a>
\nIt’s great to finally have the kids at an age where the grown-ups can relax and chat while the kidlets play.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"'Just<\/a>
\nStar Wars Lego was a big hit! Just as I was snapping this photo, Simon was exclaiming his delight and gratitude to Granny and Papa Lou for “just what I wanted!!!”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Simon's<\/a><\/div>\n

It was a great birthday, full of fun for the kids and low-key and laid back for the adults. I couldn’t have asked for anything more, and Simon was delighted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phew! For nine months, I’ve been worried that the Player to be Named Later would arrive just in time to disrupt Simon’s birthday party. That’s not to say he might not still arrive on his due date to share Simon’s actual birthday, but at least we made it through the party uninterrupted! We kept things … Continue reading “Simon’s party”<\/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":[11,78,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys","category-photography","category-simon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9031,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/9031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}