{"id":2990,"date":"2013-12-14T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T21:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2014-01-18T14:13:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T21:13:06","slug":"sirenas-monthly-photos-18-months-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2990","title":{"rendered":"Sirena&#8217;s Monthly Photos: 18 Months Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sirena,<\/p>\n<p>I really can&#8217;t grasp the fact that we have an 18 month old on our hands!\u00a0 You&#8217;re a full-fledged toddler now and the little person you&#8217;re becoming is pretty amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, your eighteenth month started off a little rocky.\u00a0 For four days you were vomiting and had diarrhea, you couldn&#8217;t hold any food down and that led to you being really dehydrated.\u00a0 We took you to the doctor&#8217;s and we had to make the decision to give you an iv to get fluids in you.\u00a0 That experience was one of the hardest so far in this adventure we call parenting&#8211;it was downright torturous for you but it was also pretty traumatic for me and Daddy who had to help pin you down while they put the needle in and then try to comfort you as much as you could handle while the iv did its job.\u00a0 Luckily the torture was not in vain and you recovered pretty quickly after that.\u00a0 But then you developed a double ear infection (your first experience) so now you&#8217;re on antibiotics (your first experience with that too) and it seems that you&#8217;re <strong>finally <\/strong>on the mend.<\/p>\n<p>On a lighter note, Daddy and I are blown away by the vocabulary you&#8217;re picking up on each moment of the day.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve begun naming things yourself and some of me and Daddy&#8217;s favorites are: Baby (blankie), baba (pacifier), boo-boo (booty), Lalo or Laloo (Lola), and &#8220;Maaah-meee&#8221; (Help please, More please, Yes please, Up please).<\/p>\n<p>Christmas is only a couple of weeks away and you are really getting into the holiday spirit.\u00a0 Every time you see anything vaguely related to Christmas (picture of Santa, Christmas tree, Christmas lights, etc.) you quickly exclaim, &#8220;Ho, ho, ho&#8221; like the little Christmas elf you are.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p><em>Mama<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Monthly Photos<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/18-Months-Old.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2991\" title=\"18 Months Old\" src=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/18-Months-Old-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/18-Months-Old-282x300.jpg 282w, http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/18-Months-Old.jpg 586w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">See past photos in her mini armchair here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2381\">One Month<\/a> ::\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2593\">Two Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2650\">Three Months<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2673\">Four Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2674\">Five Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2700\">Six Months<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2739\">Seven Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2824\">Eight Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2849\">Nine Months<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2876\">Ten Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2920\">Eleven Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2925\">Twelve Months<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2959\">Thirteen Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2971\">Fourteen Months<\/a> :: <a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2979\">Fifteen Months<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(No Sixteen Months!)\u00a0 ::\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2981\">Seventeen Months<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sirena, I really can&#8217;t grasp the fact that we have an 18 month old on our hands!\u00a0 You&#8217;re a full-fledged toddler now and the little person you&#8217;re becoming is pretty amazing. Unfortunately, your eighteenth month started off a little rocky.\u00a0 For four days you were vomiting and had diarrhea, you couldn&#8217;t hold any food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sirena","category-sirenas-monthly-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2996,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}