{"id":18772,"date":"2013-06-06T20:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T12:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=18772"},"modified":"2017-02-25T12:41:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T04:41:53","slug":"hannah-is-four-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/06\/06\/hannah-is-four-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah is Four Years Old!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah has turned four years old today! The both of us had to go to work regardless &#8211; we&#8217;ll make it up for her tonight and tomorrow evening too &#8211; but she had a cute line this morning while we dropped her off her Nanny&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">H: &#8220;Will I be five years old tomorrow?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun too to see how she&#8217;s transformed since her birth 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18773\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hannah-birth.jpg\" alt=\"From this on 6 June 2009... \" width=\"330\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hannah-birth.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hannah-birth-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From this on 6 June 2009&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18774\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-hannah-N7K_8834-fourth-birthday-party-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"... to this! \" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-hannah-N7K_8834-fourth-birthday-party-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-hannah-N7K_8834-fourth-birthday-party-flickr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; to this!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While we were both looking forward to being first-time parents and well-briefed\/aware of what comes out of parenting, there&#8217;s still that sense of amazement at how much joy our lively and (for the most part) easy to care for little girl has brought into our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah had birthday celebration in school a week ago already. There was something just remarkable watching how she easily interacted and talked with her other friends in class too. It&#8217;s not something we&#8217;d observed before in the few times we&#8217;ve been to her school.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18775\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-hannah-OMDA5772-fourth-birthday-party-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"Hannah cutting her strawberry cheese cake in school.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-hannah-OMDA5772-fourth-birthday-party-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-hannah-OMDA5772-fourth-birthday-party-flickr-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-hannah-OMDA5772-fourth-birthday-party-flickr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah cutting her strawberry cheese cake in school.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18777\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-report.jpg\" alt=\"At the Meet-the-Parents, both her teachers did share also though that our girl tears up easily and doesn't take failure or correction well. We agreed totally, especially also the part where Hannah likes to tell everybody what she's thinking and feeling LOL. \" width=\"550\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-report.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-report-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the Meet-the-Parents, both her teachers also shared that our girl tears up easily and doesn&#8217;t take failure or correction well. We agreed totally, especially also the part where Hannah likes to tell everybody what she&#8217;s thinking and feeling LOL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The evening birthday cake was our family favorite &#8211; Breadtalk&#8217;s Green Tea cake &#8211; which she enjoyed:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18779\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18779\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-hannah-OMDA5902-fourth-birthday-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"Her presents this year included clothes, swim wear, a set of markers and coloring book, a bicycle, and a Hello Kitty doll LOL.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-hannah-OMDA5902-fourth-birthday-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-hannah-OMDA5902-fourth-birthday-flickr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Her presents this year included clothes, swim wear, a set of markers and coloring book, a bicycle, and a Hello Kitty doll LOL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mommy got a little present too; a new handphone &#8211; the Samsung Galaxy SIII, which she got out of her recontracting of her mobile phone service plan.=)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah has turned four years old today! The both of us had to go to work regardless &#8211; we&#8217;ll make it up for her tonight and tomorrow evening too &#8211; but she had a cute line this morning while we<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/06\/06\/hannah-is-four-years-old\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Hannah is Four Years Old!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-2013-hannah-OMDA5772-fourth-birthday-party-flickr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772","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=18772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}