{"id":3556,"date":"2010-01-19T11:11:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2010-01-19T11:11:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T16:11:28","slug":"you-know-what-we-need-we-need-a-yay-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/you-know-what-we-need-we-need-a-yay-day\/","title":{"rendered":"You know what we need? We need a “Yay Day”!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Y<\/span>ou know what we haven’t done around here for a long time? We haven’t done a “yay day<\/a>“, where we celebrate the big and little things that are making us happy.<\/p>\n

Today’s Yay Day is really just a thinly-veiled excuse to brag about my kids. I know, I know, I bragged about Tristan just the other day. But I have to treat all three boys equally, don’t I? Lord knows I try. No wonder the baby thinks he’s a seven year old! Besides, it’s not really bragging, it’s just a very effusive update for the friends and family who live far away. Yeah, that’s it!<\/p>\n

Simon can READ! I’m so proud of him. During the Christmas break, we broke out the old Bob Book series<\/a>, the ones I reviewed way back in the day<\/a> when Tristan was five years old. Simon started with the first book and was able to read it straight through without help. Although it was a little thin on narrative arc and character development (“Mat sat. Mat’s hat. Mat sat on a hat.”) you simply can’t beat the look of proud astonishment on your five year old’s face when he realizes he just read an entire book. And so he went on to read another and another and another, until he had read six of the twelve books in the series back to back to back. And he was absolutely delighted with himself. You can’t buy that kind of joy!<\/p>\n

Not to be left out of the “oh my goodness, my children are freakishly brilliant” brag, Lucas has surprised and delighted on many occasions recently. At not-even-two, he can count to ten and sing a completely recognizable “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.” He’s got better pitch than me, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

And heck, since I’m bragging, I’ll squeeze in the fact that I’m going to be speaking at an International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) <\/a>event on Wednesday as an “industry-leading communications professional” in the realm of blogging and social media. It’s being billed as an informal event with several featured communicators stationed around the room available to answer questions. Fun, eh? Any IABC members who will be there? Let me know!<\/p>\n

Now it’s your turn, bloggy peeps. What’s making the sun shine in your corner of the universe these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know what we haven’t done around here for a long time? We haven’t done a “yay day“, where we celebrate the big and little things that are making us happy. Today’s Yay Day is really just a thinly-veiled excuse to brag about my kids. I know, I know, I bragged about Tristan just the … Continue reading “You know what we need? We need a “Yay Day”!”<\/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":[11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys","category-yay-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","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=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}