{"id":38,"date":"2006-02-15T19:31:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T03:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelandofka.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2006-02-15T19:31:47","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T03:31:47","slug":"happy-birthday-grandpa-mike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Grandpa Mike!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been another long time in between updates.\u00a0 You may come to the conclusion that we are a busy household by our lack of communication\u2026and you may be correct!<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

We have been hibernating for the winter the last month or so.\u00a0 Yet another year has gone by where I think the groundhogs are smoking crack.\u00a0 Who came up with the \u201c6 weeks\u201d of winter remaining?\u00a0 It is pretty much a guarantee regardless of whether the sun is shining, behind clouds, or obscured by a ferocious blizzard that we will be wearing coats until May.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

We travel back and forth to work and daycare and that seems to be the extent of our adventures these days.\u00a0 The children have been battling sickness, with RSV and colds.\u00a0 Unfortunately daycares are like one gigantic petrie dish and our children are sitting in the middle.\u00a0 I am happy that Anya was able to go this long without getting sick, but she went ahead and got a bad one for her first.\u00a0 We have been using the nebulizer quite often the past few weeks.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

A little info on RSV if you don\u2019t know what that is: <\/font>http:\/\/www.rsvprotection.com\/<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Anya just had her 9 month doctor\u2019s appointment and has slacked off a bit in her growth.\u00a0 She went down to the 70% for her height, whereas she was in the 90% at 6 months.\u00a0 She also went down to the 50% for weight, so She is starting to discover the world of table foods, so that has been fun, albeit messy.\u00a0 Switching her to formula went relatively painlessly.\u00a0 Most nights she sleeps through, but this cold has been a bit of an adversary for that. She continues to be a happy child and her favorite activity is trying to grab your lips with her razor-like fingernails or stick her fingers up your nose.\u00a0 It is quite entertaining for her<\/em> as mommy and daddy are trying to deflect her little hands.\u00a0 She is also crawling around like a little rocket and I can just see the fat melting off her little thunder thighs.\u00a0 I\u2019m just glad we no longer have the cat\u2019s litterbox to worry about.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Kai is also doing very well; however, he is losing weight.\u00a0 We know that as they get older and more active they do tend to slim down a bit.\u00a0 Part of the problem is his diet.\u00a0 He would rather subsist on a diet solely comprised of cheese sticks and yogurt.\u00a0 Alas, he has tormenters as parents that make him try to eat meat and vegetables.\u00a0 Kailan is in acute suffering and lets us know with occasional ear-piercing shrieking when we deny his request for \u201cmoo shees\u201d.\u00a0<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Daycare has also been a bit trying as of late.\u00a0 There are two biters in his class and they seem to be right next to Kai when their cannibalistic tendencies arise.\u00a0 We are happy when a week goes by that he does not get bitten by these little carnivores.\u00a0 I have given a few suggestions to their teacher (who agreed with me on biting them back); however there are limits as to what they can do.\u00a0 In the end it is the parents\u2019 responsibility.\u00a0 So\u2026yes, we are a bit peeved at the parents\u2019 inaction with their kids.\u00a0 It may be mean to bite your kid, but when he is biting other children\u2026how is it fair to them?\u00a0 The daycare can\u2019t tell us who it is, but since Kai can talk\u2026we know.\u00a0 Yesterday, daycare had a Valentine\u2019s Day party and the one that I know has bitten Kai had no parents that attended. They probably didn\u2019t want to get cornered by an angry mob wielding pitchforks.\u00a0 I only had a straw, but I would have wielded it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been another long time in between updates.\u00a0 You may come to the conclusion that we are a busy household by our lack of communication\u2026and you may be correct! We have been hibernating for the winter the last month […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids","category-prince-kailan","category-princess-anya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbJHf-C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}