{"id":15392,"date":"2011-12-06T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=15392"},"modified":"2011-12-06T22:06:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:06:14","slug":"2-5-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/12\/06\/2-5-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"2.5 years old!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah\u2019s exactly 2.5 years old today!<\/p>\n<p>While I\u2019m uncertain too if Ling would agree with me on this \u2013 I think we\u2019ve just recently passed the toughest stage of her \u2018terrible two\u2019 too. Over the last month, while she seems to have become a little more assertive and independent minded, she seems to have been able to comprehend her own emotions and less ready to breakout into tantrums.<\/p>\n<p>It comes out of many simple things. Like for instance, not lying down on her stomach immediately after finishing dinner. I\u2019ll tell her gently not to do that on the sofa and follow it through with an explanation on why it\u2019s bad for digestion \u2013 and she\u2019ll listen. Or understanding her the importance of her bed time routine and agreeing to stop watching her favorite A-B-C video (Ling made it specially for her last week) for the night. Little things like these.<\/p>\n<p>OK photos though not from this evening but just two days ago over dinner.=)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4326-fish-fingers-dinner-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4326-fish-fingers-dinner-flickr_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4326-fish-fingers-dinner-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ling tried her hand at making her own fish fingers over the weekend. She didn&#39;t think it was a huge success, but Hannah and me gulped it all down nonetheless.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4344-fish-fingers-dinner-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4344-fish-fingers-dinner-flickr_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4344-fish-fingers-dinner-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Right after dinner prayer and ready to tuck in!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4354-fish-fingers-dinner-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4354-fish-fingers-dinner-flickr_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4354-fish-fingers-dinner-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food&#39;s nearly all gone after half an hour. It&#39;s The West Wing playing in the background too BTW.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah\u2019s exactly 2.5 years old today! While I\u2019m uncertain too if Ling would agree with me on this \u2013 I think we\u2019ve just recently passed the toughest stage of her \u2018terrible two\u2019 too. Over the last month, while she seems<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/12\/06\/2-5-years-old\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  2.5 years old!<\/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":[508,514],"class_list":["post-15392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","tag-e-pl2","tag-lumix-20mm","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15392","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=15392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}