{"id":362,"date":"2009-07-09T10:19:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T10:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-07-09T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T10:19:55","slug":"stuff-and-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/07\/09\/stuff-and-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff and Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Stuff<\/span><br \/>The babies were seven months old yesterday.&nbsp; Crazy!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Their personalities are starting to come out now, which is fun.&nbsp; Erin is getting really mobile these days.&nbsp; She rolls around to get toys or until she runs into a barrier.&nbsp; But she is happy to play with toys or explore a new texture (like the bricks on my dad&#8217;s fireplace) by herself for the most part.&nbsp; Alex is not terribly into the whole moving thing, though he can roll if he wants to.&nbsp; He is a jolly little social guy, though.&nbsp; He loves to laugh, and he prefers to interact with people, unless he&#8217;s tired.&nbsp; He likes to suck on the tags of his toys these days, and he&#8217;s started sticking out and sucking on his tongue.&nbsp; Too cute! <\/p>\n<p>And I figured that some pictures would be appropriate, too. <\/p>\n<p>Alex sitting up in a chair&#8230;sort of&#8230;<br \/> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/x7a.xanga.com\/63df720a02435248724477\/b197276204.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"AlexSitting1\" style=\"border-style: none; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/x7a.xanga.com\/63df720a02435248724477\/z197276204.jpg\" width=\"314\"><\/a>  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/x66.xanga.com\/2b9f561635632248724480\/b197276207.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"AlexSitting2\" style=\"border-style: none; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/x66.xanga.com\/2b9f561635632248724480\/z197276207.jpg\" width=\"314\"><\/a>&nbsp; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/x3d.xanga.com\/3e8f5a1435632248724481\/b197276208.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"AlexSitting3\" style=\"border-style: none; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/x3d.xanga.com\/3e8f5a1435632248724481\/z197276208.jpg\" width=\"314\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Erin just generally being adorable:<br \/> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/x18.xanga.com\/5b1f461435235248724518\/b197276241.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"ErinSmile\" style=\"border-style: none; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/x18.xanga.com\/5b1f461435235248724518\/z197276241.jpg\" width=\"314\"><\/a>  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/x0d.xanga.com\/b84f610a32734248724499\/b197276225.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"ErinPlaying\" style=\"border-style: none; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/x0d.xanga.com\/b84f610a32734248724499\/z197276225.jpg\" width=\"314\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;babyproofing&#8221; I&#8217;ve done so far&#8230;a makeshift corral (those are our pack-n-plays)!<br \/> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/x2f.xanga.com\/5fcf2a1035233248724521\/b197276244.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"LivingRoomBabies\" style=\"border-style: none; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/x2f.xanga.com\/5fcf2a1035233248724521\/z197276244.jpg\" width=\"314\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Nonsense<\/span><br \/>Yesterday, we spent the day in C-ville with my parents and visited Michelle and her girls for a bit since they were in town.&nbsp; Fun times!&nbsp; Kathy has a really cool playset in the backyard now.&nbsp; Wish it had been there when we were growing up!<\/p>\n<p>We took the babies on a hike in their carriers on Tuesday evening.&nbsp; My hip hurt really bad yesterday.&nbsp; I guess I was carrying Erin a bit wrong or something.&nbsp; But it was fun, so we&#8217;ll have to figure out how to do it better next time!<\/p>\n<p>We watched the pilot of a new Sci-Fi channel series last night (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Warehouse 13<\/span>) and really liked it.&nbsp; And <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Eureka<\/span> is coming back on Friday night.&nbsp; WooHoo!&nbsp; Who needs reality TV when you have Sci-Fi shows to watch?! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/silly.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I have two episodes of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/span> to watch on DVR, too.&nbsp; So I guess I&#8217;ll have to admit to the more &#8220;normal&#8221; fare, too!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;re going to make a quick trip to the farm this weekend.&nbsp; Eric is probably going to take some (or all) of tomorrow off and we&#8217;ll head out, stay one night, and come back on Saturday.&nbsp; We really do need to get out to see everyone, but I can&#8217;t do another two-night excursion this soon!&nbsp; I do think we can manage a one-nighter, though.<\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s about all I have for now&#8230;later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The StuffThe babies were seven months old yesterday.&nbsp; Crazy!&nbsp; Their personalities are starting to come out now, which is fun.&nbsp; Erin is getting really mobile these days.&nbsp; She rolls around to get toys or until she runs into a barrier.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/07\/09\/stuff-and-nonsense\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}