{"id":1433,"date":"2008-12-01T12:50:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T17:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2008-12-01T12:50:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T17:50:48","slug":"hes-a-goer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/hes-a-goer\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s a goer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uh oh.  Cue REM&#8217;s &#8220;It&#8217;s the end of the world as we know it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The baby?  He&#8217;s mobile.  We are so farked.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not quite crawling yet, but he knows how to lean over from a sitting position and stretch himself prone.  It&#8217;s only a matter of days before he pops up on his hands and knees and scoots away.  In the interim, though, he&#8217;s turned the barrel roll and the 96-point turn into an art form.  He also scooches over to the furniture and manages a little baby chin-up, hauling himself up on his knees.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention we&#8217;re farked?<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s in that intense stage of baby development where one not only acquires a new skill, but one must practice that new skill at every available opportunity, and during each and every waking moment.  I can&#8217;t turn my back on him without him making a break for it.<\/p>\n<p>So very farked.<\/p>\n<p>Because there was less than two years between Tristan and Simon, we never really moved out of a state of general baby-proofedness between them.  In the intervening four years, our house has become home to every possible choking hazard known to the modern world, most of which are lurking under furniture and tucked in hidden cubbies and corners just waiting for a curious human with an eye-level of approximately eight inches off the ground to happen by.   <\/p>\n<p>And hardy-har-har, I thought the Christmas tree would be safe this year&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh oh. Cue REM&#8217;s &#8220;It&#8217;s the end of the world as we know it.&#8221; The baby? He&#8217;s mobile. We are so farked. He&#8217;s not quite crawling yet, but he knows how to lean over from a sitting position and stretch himself prone. It&#8217;s only a matter of days before he pops up on his hands &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/hes-a-goer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;He&#8217;s a goer&#8221;<\/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":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","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=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}