{"id":445,"date":"2006-09-11T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austenandgage.com\/an-open-letter-from-mommy-and-daddy-on-your-f"},"modified":"2006-09-11T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T02:07:00","slug":"an-open-letter-from-mommy-and-daddy-on-your-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter From Mommy and Daddy on Your First Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austen,<\/p>\n<p \/>It&#8217;s hard to believe there was a time we weren&#8217;t sure you would make it. After a difficult pregnancy, emotionally and physically, came a perfectly healthy baby. Your nine out of ten on the apgar scale was a sign of things to come. Nothing gets you down for long, not a trip-n-fall or even the chicken pox. You&#8217;re always quickly up and running, and smiling, again.<\/p>\n<p \/>And at one year, you&#8217;re so much more than a vision of health. Smart as the dickens. Strong and energetic. Observant and engaged with the people around you. It&#8217;s clear what a beautiful future you&#8217;ll have. But don&#8217;t forget, you must do something special with that lung power of yours: a woodwind instrumentalist or opera singer are two possibilities. And if you want to be a rock star instead, we don&#8217;t mind.<\/p>\n<p \/>Your smiles are contagious and make it easy to care for you. The fussies never last long. You&#8217;re built for play and fun.  Mommy thinks you get your open, gregarious personality from Grandma Judi &#8212; and your laughing for no reason at all from Daddy.<\/p>\n<p \/>Mommy must&#8217;ve passed on her love of fuzzies.  Although you&#8217;re not able to catch the kitties, you give it your best effort every time.  Continue to apply this go-get-&#8217;em attitude in all that you do.  And remember, after you&#8217;ve become a great athlete in volleyball, soccer, tennis or whatever, be sure to let Daddy win once in a while.<\/p>\n<p \/>Love, <\/p>\n<p \/>Mommy &amp; Daddy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austen,It&#8217;s hard to believe there was a time we weren&#8217;t sure you would make it. After a difficult pregnancy, emotionally and physically, came a perfectly healthy baby. Your nine out of ten on the apgar scale was a sign of things to come. Nothing g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austenandgage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}