{"id":4727,"date":"2009-12-22T16:44:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/22\/birthday-party\/"},"modified":"2009-12-22T16:44:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T22:44:06","slug":"birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/22\/birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Mike took me out for a birthday dinner date while his parents watched the girls.&#160; When we got home, I was rushing around to get everyone bathed and in bed.&#160; Noelle bounced into my room wearing her Cinderella finest and said, &quot;Are you ready for the party?&quot;&#160; Noelle&#8217;s always throwing parties, and it didn&#8217;t even dawn on me that it was still my birthday, so I said, &quot;Noelle, we don&#8217;t have time for a party tonight.&#160; It&#8217;s bath time.&quot;&#160; She literally started crying and said, &quot;Mommy, we HAVE to have a party!&#160; It&#8217;s your birthday.&quot;&#160; I was floored.&#160; I summoned Mike and Anna Kate to the kitchen table where Noelle led in singing, &quot;Happy Birthday, Dear Mom-Mo (she thought of this nickname all by herself)!&quot;&#160; We had some cookies and then went to take baths, and I was the happiest mother in the whole wide world!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WindowsLiveWriterBirthdayParty_DE2EIMG_4506.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_4506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WindowsLiveWriterBirthdayParty_DE2EIMG_4506_thumb.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WindowsLiveWriterBirthdayParty_DE2EIMG_4503.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_4503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WindowsLiveWriterBirthdayParty_DE2EIMG_4503_thumb.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WindowsLiveWriterBirthdayParty_DE2EIMG_4505.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_4505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WindowsLiveWriterBirthdayParty_DE2EIMG_4505_thumb.jpg\" width=\"181\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These pictures were taken right after I said, yes we could have a little party! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Mike took me out for a birthday dinner date while his parents watched the girls.&#160; When we got home, I was rushing around to get everyone bathed and in bed.&#160; Noelle bounced into my room wearing her Cinderella finest and said, &quot;Are you ready for the party?&quot;&#160; Noelle&#8217;s always throwing parties, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}