{"id":1385,"date":"2009-06-09T22:09:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T03:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2009-06-09T22:09:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T03:09:46","slug":"happy-3rd-birthday-to-my-sweet-little-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"Happy 3rd Birthday to my sweet little man&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1392\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_3836.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1392\" title=\"img_3836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_3836-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"img_3836\" width=\"711\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_3836-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_3836-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so emotional tonight!\u00a0 My kids birthdays are far sweeter to me than even my birthday!\u00a0 Three years ago today, I was getting to know my sweet little strawberry-blond headed boy.\u00a0 Three years ago, I fell in love with another man, albeit a little one.\u00a0 Three years ago, I learned the miracle that there is always enough love to go around.\u00a0 Three years ago today, I had no idea how to mother a boy.\u00a0 I still feel like I have no idea some days!\u00a0 But things I have learned: Don&#8217;t fight the dirt, or for that sake, the mess.\u00a0 Anything with wheels is immediately at least 5 minutes of entertainment.\u00a0 Boys are boys&#8230; and therefore, construction vehicles and trains are all very exciting.\u00a0 Keep the penis covered, otherwise you never know what might get wet!<\/p>\n<p>Josiah, my love, my sweet little man&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What a handsome loving little guy you are!\u00a0 My favorite memories of you right now are how you randomly race up to us, wrapping our legs in\u00a0 a bear hug, saying &#8220;I wuv you.&#8221;\u00a0 Or when you climb on me while I&#8217;m sitting at the computer, just for a snuggling moment.\u00a0 And how you like to have the last word as I&#8217;m putting you in bed, saying &#8220;I wuv you so much!&#8221;, to which I reply, &#8220;I love you so much!&#8221;\u00a0 Tonight I caught a rare glimpse of you and Analise hugging good night.\u00a0 My heart melted.\u00a0 You and Analise are the loves of my life.\u00a0 And I love our evening prayers, as you won&#8217;t let me forget to pray that you grow up big and strong like King Josiah.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait to see the man you&#8217;re going to become!\u00a0 Happy 3rd birthday, Little Guy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"My baby boy\" src=\"\/family\/sleepy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so emotional tonight!\u00a0 My kids birthdays are far sweeter to me than even my birthday!\u00a0 Three years ago today, I was getting to know my sweet little strawberry-blond headed boy.\u00a0 Three years ago, I fell in love with another man, albeit a little one.\u00a0 Three years ago, I learned the miracle that there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[92,19],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-memories","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-ml","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}