{"id":400,"date":"2009-04-23T07:52:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T07:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=400"},"modified":"2009-04-23T07:52:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T07:52:18","slug":"sunshine-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/04\/23\/sunshine-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m SOOOO thankful for it.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s supposed to last for days and days.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s supposed to be really warm for those days and days.&nbsp; *happy sigh*&nbsp; I&#8217;ve needed this.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was pretty long, as I suspected it would be.&nbsp; The babies weren&#8217;t bad, just more needy than usual (sometimes a lot more needy), so I was &#8220;on&#8221; all day.&nbsp; But we survived.&nbsp; And I did get some good snuggle time with both babies.&nbsp; And hopefully the aftereffects of the vaccinations are mostly done now, so we can all get back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>In sleeping news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Erin slept through the night last night again.&nbsp; From 9-5 (when I woke her up for my own sake), and she&#8217;s still asleep now.<\/li>\n<li>Alex&#8230;well&#8230;not so much.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>LAST NIGHT:&nbsp; He pretty much cried from bedtime (8:00) until 11:00 (off and on, of course).&nbsp; The normal medicines didn&#8217;t make a difference.&nbsp; I fed them both at 9:00, but he was crying again less than 10 minutes after he finished.&nbsp; He calms down just long enough for us to relax and then start back up again. I tried to soothe him.&nbsp; No good.&nbsp; Eric finally came and held him.&nbsp; He did fall asleep, but cried for another 10 minutes or so after Eric put him down (which is very unusual).&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Then he woke up at 1:30 and 4:30.&nbsp; I let him cry at 4:30, and he went back to sleep after about 10 minutes.&nbsp; But then he was up again at 5:15.&nbsp; So I fed them both then.<\/li>\n<li>So, I just don&#8217;t know what his beef is.&nbsp; I&#8217;m hoping he is simply a stubborn little boy who doesn&#8217;t like having to put himself to sleep.&nbsp; And I&#8217;m trying not to give up.&nbsp; And I&#8217;m trying not to feel discouraged again.&nbsp; But mostly I&#8217;m just annoyed and frustrated that he won&#8217;t sleep.&nbsp; And there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any good reason for it.&nbsp; So please keep praying for both of us.&nbsp; And Eric.&nbsp; He&#8217;s not getting good sleep these days either, and that&#8217;s hard on him at work. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there&#8217;s my daily &#8220;Alex isn&#8217;t sleeping&#8221; whine.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sorry I&#8217;m such a broken record about these things.&nbsp; And sadly, other than blow-out diapers and lots of baby laundry, there isn&#8217;t much else to tell about the last 2 days.&nbsp; Oh well.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>At least it&#8217;s a beautiful, sunny day&#8230;I&#8217;ll just keep being thankful for that.&nbsp; And for God&#8217;s faithfulness.&nbsp; And for your prayers, encouragement, and friendship.&nbsp; Happy Thursday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m SOOOO thankful for it.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s supposed to last for days and days.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s supposed to be really warm for those days and days.&nbsp; *happy sigh*&nbsp; I&#8217;ve needed this. Yesterday was pretty long, as I suspected it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/04\/23\/sunshine-outside\/\">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-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}