{"id":2471,"date":"2009-12-21T09:05:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:15:44","slug":"the-countdown-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/the-countdown-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The countdown begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of excited kiddos in our house- and one cool headed pre-teen.\u00a0 I look at my 12 year old and just shake my head.\u00a0 How in the world did he get so big so fast?\u00a0 How did his feet get bigger than mine?\u00a0 I don’t have small feet!\u00a0 (size 9!)\u00a0 But that is a whole ‘nother story.\u00a0 Or blog post.<\/p>\n

And\u00a0 my 10 year old is almost as big as my 12 year old…. the difference is he is still very much kid, and less cool cat.\u00a0 I have a feeling it may always be that way.<\/p>\n

Kids grow fast, way too fast. And while I am the first to admit that having older kids is very cool (and easier), I am so not ready to give up the fun that comes from the little ones.<\/p>\n

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When this one gets too big to sit on the table to do his crafts I will be sad.\u00a0 He always sits on the table, whether it’s the big farm table or this one, the banquette.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_5210\"<\/a> We made the puff ball ornaments on Friday.\u00a0 They were still all spread out- we keep making more.<\/p>\n

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And I don’t have much proof that I made cookies<\/p>\n

\"IMG_5191\"<\/a> \"IMG_5193\"<\/a> I meant to get a shot of the cookies, but friends came over last night and the plate is empty- must make more!<\/p>\n

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I love this Retro Rocket.\u00a0 I was going to try to find a picture of Cole on it but I can’t seem to find them on the external hard drive.<\/p>\n

Andy flew into NYC this morning- hope the snow didn’t cause any issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of excited kiddos in our house- and one cool headed pre-teen.\u00a0 I look at my 12 year old and just shake my head.\u00a0 How in the world did he get so big so fast?\u00a0 How did his feet get bigger than mine?\u00a0 I don’t have small feet!\u00a0 (size 9!)\u00a0 But that is a whole ‘nother story.\u00a0 Or blog post. And\u00a0 my 10 year old is almost as big as my 12 year old…. the difference is he is still very much kid, and less cool cat.\u00a0 I have a feeling it may always be that way. Kids grow fast, way too fast. And while I am the first to admit that having older kids is very cool (and easier), I am so not ready to give up the fun that comes from the little ones. When this one gets too big to sit on the table to do his crafts I will be sad.\u00a0 He always sits on the table, whether it’s the big farm table or this one, the banquette. We made the puff ball ornaments on Friday.\u00a0 They were still all spread out- we keep making more. And I don’t have much proof that I made cookies I meant to get a shot of the cookies, but friends came over last night and the plate is empty- must make more! I love this Retro Rocket.\u00a0 I was going to try to find a picture of Cole on it but I can’t seem to find them on the external hard drive. Andy flew into NYC this morning- hope the snow didn’t cause any issues.<\/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":[13],"tags":[163,229,561],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-cole","tag-eva","tag-puff-ball-ornaments"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","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=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21404,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/21404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}