{"id":8021,"date":"2010-03-06T12:49:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T04:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/03\/06\/9-months\/"},"modified":"2017-03-05T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T08:36:27","slug":"9-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/03\/06\/9-months\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-hannah-DSC_6851-morning-call\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/blog2010hannahDSC_6851morningcall.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-hannah-DSC_6851-morning-call\" width=\"330\" height=\"493\" align=\"right\" \/>Hannah today is exactly 9 months old! It\u2019s been quite the journey as first time parents. There\u2019s been plenty of lows points for certain. There\u2019s been that dramatic change from being in a two person family and having to worry only about your wife, to having to worry about your baby girl and your wife now, and it pretty much pervades every decision you make \u2013 like what time you wake up, what time you leave the house, what time both of you have your meals, and that new toy you always wanted to buy has to be put aside i.e. financial prudence.<\/p>\n<p>And just like this morning, Hannah did something she\u2019d rarely done \u2013 wake the both of us up well before her usual wake-up time! She did a huge din at about 6:15 AM \u2013 we\u2019d turn in late last night watching <em>Watchmen <\/em>on blu-ray \u2013 that was loud enough to wake even Matt up, two closed doors between her vocal chords and him.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019re so many more high-points in comparison: that toothless grin, her giggles and laughs when you rest your head on her tummy, her slow break into an angelic smile and chuckle when you make direct eye-contact with her, and the way her eyes dart noticing things around her and reflecting her alertness of both new and old environments. Each new day brings about new things we\u2019re learning about her.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s also that I think the both of us have become better individuals too: better discipline in spending, more efficient in what we do (at least for me anyway haha!), and better planners! And when Hannah\u2019s carried by either of us, we just can\u2019t resist planting kisses on those chubby cheeks of hers, and there\u2019s that indescribable and absolutely incredible feelings of paternal affection and protection over our baby girl.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-hannah-DSC_6866-morning-call\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/blog2010hannahDSC_6866morningcall.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-hannah-DSC_6866-morning-call\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three more months to one.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah today is exactly 9 months old! It\u2019s been quite the journey as first time parents. There\u2019s been plenty of lows points for certain. There\u2019s been that dramatic change from being in a two person family and having to worry<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/03\/06\/9-months\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  9 Months<\/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":[137,593,364],"class_list":["post-8021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","tag-d300","tag-reflections","tag-sigma-24-60mm","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021","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=8021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}