{"id":14004,"date":"2011-06-12T16:21:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T08:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/06\/12\/2-years-1-week\/"},"modified":"2011-06-12T19:19:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T11:19:27","slug":"2-years-1-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/06\/12\/2-years-1-week\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Years 1 Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Ling, I haven\u2019t got round to reading literature about bringing up kids, preferring instead to go with instincts and observations. One thing I take a small amount of pride in is teaching Hannah words, and they\u2019ve included saying \u2018sorry\u2019 (though she\u2019s still yet to fully understand the meaning of that word) and \u2018morning\u2019 \u2013 and many others like \u2018bye\u2019 that are less clear whom between the two of us actually had the more instrumental hand in teaching her that particular word!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been able to take a few days of leave now and then this June school holidays, and one thing I really enjoy doing is to be the parent who wakes and picks her up first in the morning, where we\u2019ll enjoy family time playing on the bed. That\u2019s when she\u2019s at her most perky and chirpy too, as the photos here will tell:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-2011-hannah-OLYP0770-morning-call-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-hannah-2011-hannah-OLYP0770-morning-call-flickr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-2011-hannah-OLYP0770-morning-call-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-2011-hannah-OLYP0785-morning-call-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-hannah-2011-hannah-OLYP0785-morning-call-flickr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-2011-hannah-OLYP0785-morning-call-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve had some updates along the learning to manage her tantrums too, or more specifically, a special activity that so far has never yet failed to stop her from crying when her mood strikes. Will blog about it later in the week. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Ling, I haven\u2019t got round to reading literature about bringing up kids, preferring instead to go with instincts and observations. One thing I take a small amount of pride in is teaching Hannah words, and they\u2019ve included saying \u2018sorry\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/06\/12\/2-years-1-week\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  2 Years 1 Week<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[508],"class_list":["post-14004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","tag-e-pl2","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}