{"id":7310,"date":"2010-01-18T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/01\/18\/eyes-like-her-mum\/"},"modified":"2010-04-18T18:12:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T10:12:54","slug":"eyes-like-her-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/01\/18\/eyes-like-her-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes Like Her Mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ling was remarking on Saturday a few days ago that weekends were really starting to feel like weekends again for her.<\/p>\n<p>How\u2019s that? Well, prior to her returning to work, every day seemed like the preceding one. There were several junctures during her 7 months as a stay-at-home mum where she actually lost sense of what day and date it was.<\/p>\n<p>But now that she\u2019s working again, arriving at the weekend for a period of pseudo rest and recuperation with lots of housework to catch up on feels new but yet strangely familiar LOL.<\/p>\n<p>The collective amount of time we get to spend with Hannah is less though with her in infant care every half-day, so it\u2019s even the more important for us to take pictures and video of her in her growing years before they pass. Even the not very interesting ones of her, since I imagine 20 years from now when she\u2019s independent, these memories will be very important for her and us.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s one of those semi bo-liao videos I took on Sunday just before heading out when trying to coerce her into saying \u201cDah Dee\u201d. Not a successful attempt though, since she still seemed unsure in front of the video camera. Nonetheless, you do get to see her smile and giggle a little.:)<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=a3437c6071&amp;photo_id=4280623119&amp;flickr_show_info_box=true&amp;hd_default=false\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And speaking of which: Hannah&#8217;s eyes do look like Ling\u2019s: larger and more roundish, unlike mine which is almost always slit-eye-like. But the rest of her facial features is all me.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ling was remarking on Saturday a few days ago that weekends were really starting to feel like weekends again for her. How\u2019s that? Well, prior to her returning to work, every day seemed like the preceding one. There were several<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/01\/18\/eyes-like-her-mum\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Eyes Like Her Mum<\/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":[206],"class_list":["post-7310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","tag-hdc-sd20","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310","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=7310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}