{"id":8881,"date":"2010-04-30T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/30\/early-morning-play\/"},"modified":"2010-04-30T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T23:27:00","slug":"early-morning-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/30\/early-morning-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m usually up at about 5:15 AM every morning so that I have more time for my morning routine activities before I wake Ling up just after 6 AM. Hannah gets woken up at about 6:25 AM for a diaper change and temperature check, and if things move along speedily enough, we\u2019ll usually get about 5-10 minutes of time to play with her before we all have to head out to our first stop (infant care \/ nanny\u2019s). <\/p>\n<p>This short window of 5-10 minutes every morning has become very precious for us \u2013 because Hannah is at her cutest and most lovely moods! With a new diaper change, and an activity level that\u2019s a perfect balance between her usual boundless energy and that she\u2019s still just a little groggy from having woken up, she\u2019ll coo, look inquisitively at us, or play with new toys with us on the sofa. E.g. she\u2019s taken a fascination with my staff employment card.:)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-hannah-OLYP0819-pass\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-hannah-OLYP0819-pass\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2010hannahOLYP0819pass.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-hannah-OLYP0838-pass\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-hannah-OLYP0838-pass\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2010hannahOLYP0838pass.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Her temperament\u2019s quite different from say at about 7 to 8 PM when I\u2019m home: she\u2019d be super-energetic, hyper, and it\u2019s rapidly exhausting just to play with her.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m usually up at about 5:15 AM every morning so that I have more time for my morning routine activities before I wake Ling up just after 6 AM. Hannah gets woken up at about 6:25 AM for a diaper<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/30\/early-morning-play\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Early Morning Play<\/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":[468],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","tag-e-pl1","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881","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=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}