{"id":190,"date":"2007-03-20T07:27:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T12:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/20\/my-3-year-old-has-a-girlfriend\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:10:21","slug":"my-3-year-old-has-a-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/20\/my-3-year-old-has-a-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"My 3 year old has a girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and her name is Lucy.\u00a0 He likes to talk about her ALL THE TIME.\u00a0 Lucy is actually his 14 year old babysitter.\u00a0 But the age difference doesn&#8217;t seem to phase him and he tells everyone he knows all about her.\u00a0 At first it was cute, but now it is starting to get a little old.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love Lucy too but there are other things to talk about.\u00a0 Yesterday we were driving in the car and a slow song came on and he said, &#8220;this is a sad song.\u00a0 This is a song all about Lucy leaving and never coming back&#8221;.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t really hear that in the song but I wasn&#8217;t going to argue with him.\u00a0 And no, Lucy isn&#8217;t gone- she lives a few doors down.\u00a0 He sees her when she walks by our house on her way home from school, he sees her when she babysits, he sees her at church, he sees ALL THE TIME.\u00a0 Lucy has a little sister named Scarlett that is actually only 6 months older than Cole.\u00a0 She is his 2nd girlfriend.\u00a0 He plans to invite them both to his birthday party this summer.<\/p>\n<p>In other news I was flipping through the March <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creatingkeepsakes.com\/shop\/item.ihtml?idx=420\">CK magazine<\/a> this morning while the boys were eating their breakfast.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t get a chance to look through this magazine that much anymore so I went straight to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/aliedwards.typepad.com\/_a_\/\">Ali Edwards <\/a>article and was happy to see a layout of her with one my bags over her shoulder.\u00a0 Not a big glimpse but it was there- love that.\u00a0 Ali has ordered a couple bags so I knew that she had them, it&#8217;s just fun to see them in print.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t scrapbooked in well over a year.\u00a0 Running a business is so very time consuming that if I have time to do laundry I am lucky.\u00a0 When our computer crashed recently we learned a big lesson in backing up photos- do it!\u00a0 Fortunately Andy was able to retrieve them for me.\u00a0 Big sigh of relief.\u00a0 Someday I will start printing them out and getting them in books.\u00a0 Some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and her name is Lucy.\u00a0 He likes to talk about her ALL THE TIME.\u00a0 Lucy is actually his 14 year old babysitter.\u00a0 But the age difference doesn&#8217;t seem to phase him and he tells everyone he knows all about her.\u00a0 At first it was cute, but now it is starting to get a little old.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love Lucy too but there are other things to talk about.\u00a0 Yesterday we were driving in the car and a slow song came on and he said, &#8220;this is a sad song.\u00a0 This is a song all about Lucy leaving and never coming back&#8221;.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t really hear that in the song but I wasn&#8217;t going to argue with him.\u00a0 And no, Lucy isn&#8217;t gone- she lives a few doors down.\u00a0 He sees her when she walks by our house on her way home from school, he sees her when she babysits, he sees her at church, he sees ALL THE TIME.\u00a0 Lucy has a little sister named Scarlett that is actually only 6 months older than Cole.\u00a0 She is his 2nd girlfriend.\u00a0 He plans to invite them both to his birthday party this summer. In other news I was flipping through the March CK magazine this morning while the boys were eating their breakfast.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t get a chance to look through this magazine that much anymore so I went straight to the Ali Edwards article and was happy to see a layout of her with one my bags over her shoulder.\u00a0 Not a big glimpse but it was there- love that.\u00a0 Ali has ordered a couple bags so I knew that she had them, it&#8217;s just fun to see them in print. I haven&#8217;t scrapbooked in well over a year.\u00a0 Running a business is so very time consuming that if I have time to do laundry I am lucky.\u00a0 When our computer crashed recently we learned a big lesson in backing up photos- do it!\u00a0 Fortunately Andy was able to retrieve them for me.\u00a0 Big sigh of relief.\u00a0 Someday I will start printing them out and getting them in books.\u00a0 Some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20918,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/20918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}