{"id":6600,"date":"2009-11-07T14:15:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T06:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/11\/07\/death-grips\/"},"modified":"2009-11-07T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T06:15:11","slug":"death-grips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/11\/07\/death-grips\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Grips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah has just turned 5 months old today, and it\u2019s been one big change after another in the last couple of weeks!<\/p>\n<p>We were planning for Saturday brunch again at Compass Point\u2019s Swensens\u2019, and just when we were at the door way just about to leave, Ling said I had to be careful carrying her from now on, as Hannah\u2019s learned how to actively reach out, touch and grab things.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of a single 60 minute brunch outing: Hannah has\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-baby-IMG_0038-swensens\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/blog2009babyIMG_0038swensens.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-baby-IMG_0038-swensens\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" align=\"right\" \/> &#8211; Clutched my fingers, shirt and berms in death grips (see what she\u2019s gripping in the picture!)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Violently scratched all over my face and hands<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Kicked me in a tummy several times<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Nearly ripped off, successfully, my new pair of Titanium plated glasses<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;  Coated my entire forearm with a thick gooey layer of drool<\/p>\n<p>That said, she\u2019s still as adorably cute and very generous in offering her angelic giggles when you smile or do baby-talk with her.<\/p>\n<p>And she sure catches a lot of attention when one of us (but especially Daddy!) is cradling her in our lap. More than a few childless couples near our table observed us with interest, and a motherly Swensens\u2019 staff stopped by to chat with us and did baby-talk to Hannah at the restaurant too.:)<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an iPhone picture Ling took at the restaurant, though Hannah\u2019s making one of her faces here.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah has just turned 5 months old today, and it\u2019s been one big change after another in the last couple of weeks! We were planning for Saturday brunch again at Compass Point\u2019s Swensens\u2019, and just when we were at the<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/11\/07\/death-grips\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Death Grips<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-6600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600","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=6600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}