{"id":3603,"date":"2017-10-18T21:15:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T01:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2017-10-18T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T01:17:09","slug":"day-18-why-timmy-is-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2017\/10\/18\/day-18-why-timmy-is-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 18: Why Timmy Is Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6385.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3604\" src=\"http:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6385-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6385-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6385-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6385-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6385-448x300.jpg 448w, https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6385.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because he&#8217;s never met a person he can&#8217;t be friends with (the other day he hugged around the waist a complete stranger sitting outside our local Amish bulk store &#8211; YIKES!)<\/p>\n<p>Today, he wrote his very first story problem:\u00a0&#8220;Mom loves Timmy. How many did she love him?&#8221; (I answered 10. He said, &#8220;Mom, it&#8217;s a <em>story<\/em> problem.&#8221; Apparently there aren&#8217;t supposed to be numbers in those.)<\/p>\n<p>Tonight he sat down at the only seat at the dinner table that didn&#8217;t have a plate at it and didn&#8217;t realize it until Erin pointed it out to him.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, we played Uno and did hidden pictures and looked up jokes on the Highlights website. He can even use the mouse by himself.<\/p>\n<p>When Megan got to go with Grandma by herself, he cried loudly. I told him I thought he&#8217;d survive. &#8220;No,&#8221; he sobbed from his car seat, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I will survive!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because this is how he ate breakfast one day last week:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6338.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3605\" src=\"http:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6338-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6338-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6338-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6338-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6338-448x300.jpg 448w, https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6338.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then, he had this exchange with one of the teachers today:<\/p>\n<p>She: &#8220;Timmy, how old are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tim: &#8220;I&#8217;m the number between 3 and 5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She: &#8220;When is your birthday?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tim: &#8220;December 29.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So,&#8221; she said, &#8220;your birthday is right after what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tim: Halloween!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because he&#8217;s never met a person he can&#8217;t be friends with (the other day he hugged around the waist a complete stranger sitting outside our local Amish bulk store &#8211; YIKES!) Today, he wrote his very first story problem:\u00a0&#8220;Mom loves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2017\/10\/18\/day-18-why-timmy-is-awesome\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-31-days-of-why","category-timmy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}