{"id":307,"date":"2008-06-30T15:14:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T19:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2008-06-30T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T19:14:23","slug":"kids-just-wanna-have-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/307","title":{"rendered":"Kids just wanna have fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3130\/2625709252_efb2a2902e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Randy has great memories of playing in forts as a kid.\u00c2\u00a0 His mom would help him and his big brother, Tony make elaborate forts complete with tunnels and rooms.\u00c2\u00a0 So, Randy and the big kids had their own fort building time and the kids slept in it\u00c2\u00a0last night.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, Abbey lasted almost all night, she got hot and went to her own bed.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3093\/2624888063_26c1c00029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good shot of it, with Payton cleverly showing us the front door.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a back exit too, and even a room that included the TV so they could watch a movie.\u00c2\u00a0 Major dad points!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3256\/2624888237_2985765e14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lainey missed out on fort-building night, she had already hit the sack :)\u00c2\u00a0 Here she is showing the face she makes when we tell her to smile.\u00c2\u00a0 We might need to work on that a little.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s still healing very well, no problems.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been 4 weeks now and her next (and, hopefully last) post-op appt. is Thursday morning.\u00c2\u00a0 We found out this weekend that she does indeed know who we all are.\u00c2\u00a0 We spread out in the family room and Randy asked her &#8220;where&#8217;s Payton?&#8221;, &#8220;where&#8217;s Marley?&#8221;, etc. and she got it all right!\u00c2\u00a0 She also has another purposeful word now, other than pointing to her eye and saying it.\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;ll now approximate the word &#8220;more&#8221; rather than just signing it.\u00c2\u00a0 It comes out more like a &#8220;mo&#8221;, but we&#8217;ll take it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3002\/2624888291_e871fe927a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, that&#8217;s a better smile!\u00c2\u00a0 Wonder what we said to her that time?\u00c2\u00a0 As you can tell, it&#8217;s crunch time on the bangs or no bangs decision!\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re pretty sure we&#8217;re going with no bangs, so I need to get a LOT of cheap hair clips\/elastics since I anticipate losing them as quickly as I put them in.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy has great memories of playing in forts as a kid.\u00c2\u00a0 His mom would help him and his big brother, Tony make elaborate forts complete with tunnels and rooms.\u00c2\u00a0 So, Randy and the big kids had their own fort building time and the kids slept in it\u00c2\u00a0last night.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, Abbey lasted almost all night, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}