{"id":3042,"date":"2011-04-09T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2011-04-08T22:27:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T05:27:36","slug":"it-is-great-to-be-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3042","title":{"rendered":"It is GREAT to be EIGHT."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Emma Gracie,<\/p>\n<p>Today you are eight. For the past few months your answer to all questions has simply been, &#8220;I can probably do that when I am eight,&#8221; or &#8220;Yeah, I think I&#8217;ll do that when I am eight.&#8221; So I&#8217;m thinking starting today you are going to be able to do EVERYthing.<\/p>\n<p>Although, I think you are pretty much on your way to doing every and anything you put your mind to. I am forever astounded by how *old* you seem. Each day you try something new, figure something out on your own, or surprise even yourself with a new discovery. It is so exciting to watch, with just a little twinge of sadness. For as eager as you are to be older, Mommy is just as hesitant to let go.<\/p>\n<p>But the more we let you go and explore, the prouder you make us. You are a spectacular girl. I&#8217;ll try to stop calling you &#8220;little&#8221; now that you are &#8220;8 years old!&#8221; (*said with the rolling of the eyes*) But you will forever be my little Gracie Girl. And I hope this is your best year yet, baby.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, Emmy.<br \/>\nLove,<br \/>\nMama<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22154674?portrait=0\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/22154674\">eight years of emma grace<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2286195\">carrie voris<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Emma Gracie, Today you are eight. For the past few months your answer to all questions has simply been, &#8220;I can probably do that when I am eight,&#8221; or &#8220;Yeah, I think I&#8217;ll do that when I am eight.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3042\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-emma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-N4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}