{"id":3000,"date":"2014-02-27T10:38:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T17:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2014-02-27T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T17:38:37","slug":"sirenas-monthly-photos-20-months-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=3000","title":{"rendered":"Sirena’s Monthly Photos: 20 Months Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Sirena,<\/p>\n

You have such a caring, empathetic soul and it warms our hearts how much you show care and compassion for others, especially babies…you LOVE babies!\u00a0 You got a baby doll for Christmas and you care for her better than any parent could (other than when you drop your baby on the head on the wood floor, haha).\u00a0 Every time you see a picture of a baby, you have to point it out and say “Baby” in a very sweet voice.\u00a0 If you ever hear a baby cry (like in a store) you call out “Baby!” and pout your lips because you feel so bad for the sad baby.\u00a0 And you love (and I mean love<\/em>) changing your baby’s diaper over and over and over again.\u00a0 You say “boo boo” (which is anyone’s booty\/privates according to you) and grab a new diaper and a wipe, wipe the baby’s boo boo, put on a fresh diaper, and then repeat.\u00a0 You’ve put diapers on not only your baby doll but your monkey doll, Dumbo doll, and you’ve even suggested putting a diaper on Lalo (Lola) which I quickly put a stop to knowing Lola would not be a fan!<\/p>\n

For all the sweetness lately there is definitely a side of you showing through that, in a word, has been difficult.\u00a0 You have been testing us like any 20 month old does and at times it can be pretty trying.\u00a0 You have been showing your defiance more and more, outright saying no to something we tell you to do or running away when we ask you to do something.\u00a0 Sometimes it’s hard not to laugh because in a way it can be pretty comical having this little person show so much independence and defiance but we don’t want to encourage the behavior.\u00a0 At your worst you’ve hit me and Daddy with your little hands when you are so frustrated <\/em>with us and luckily it was only a couple of weeks with you doing that consistently and you haven’t done it much lately, but boy do those little hands have power behind them!\u00a0 And lastly, it took us a while to figure out how to tame your wild behavior at mealtimes (demanding [and I mean demanding<\/em>] food, screaming for more, not being able to wait a few minutes for us to put a meal together for you, crying inconsolably for mealtime, etc.) but your preschool teacher enlightened us to the fact that we weren’t feeding you enough throughout the day!\u00a0 We have since been following your preschool’s feeding schedule (breakfast at home, morning snack, lunch before nap, afternoon snack, dinner at home) and you have been a dream at mealtimes!\u00a0 Poor thing, you were just too darn hungry to focus and be calm.\u00a0 So thank you for your patience with us as we figure this whole parenting thing out!<\/p>\n

Love,<\/p>\n

Mama<\/em><\/p>\n

New words<\/span>: Me, Mine!!, ‘xcuse me, “Aye” (She says this instead of “Yes”), “Mow” (Minnie or Mickey Mouse), “Mow mow” (Hello Kitty or any cat)<\/p>\n

Monthly Photos<\/h3>\n

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See past photos in her mini armchair here:<\/p>\n

One Month<\/a> ::\u00a0 Two Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 Three Months<\/a><\/p>\n

Four Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 Five Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 Six Months<\/a><\/p>\n

Seven Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 Eight Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 Nine Months<\/a><\/p>\n

Ten Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 Eleven Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 Twelve Months<\/a><\/p>\n

Thirteen Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 Fourteen Months<\/a> :: Fifteen Months<\/a><\/p>\n

(No Sixteen Months!)\u00a0 ::\u00a0 Seventeen Months<\/a> ::\u00a0 Eighteen Months<\/a><\/p>\n

Nineteen Months<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Sirena, You have such a caring, empathetic soul and it warms our hearts how much you show care and compassion for others, especially babies…you LOVE babies!\u00a0 You got a baby doll for Christmas and you care for her better than any parent could (other than when you drop your baby on the head on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,52,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dear-sirena","category-sirena","category-sirenas-monthly-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000","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=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}