{"id":605,"date":"2006-10-26T18:28:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T02:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/26\/growth\/"},"modified":"2006-10-26T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T02:28:39","slug":"growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/26\/growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230; I can&#8217;t believe I went for 3 weeks without posting anything! <\/p>\n<p>First some stuff on Bryan&#8230; He&#8217;s now practically a toddler with new vocabulary that continue to surprise us on daily basis. Even though we speak Mandarin to him 99% of the time at home, he seems to understand a whole lot of English words whenever Grace converses with the neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of languages, now we set Bryan&#8217;s Baby Einstein DVDs to French so that all three of us can learn it together from scratch. But boy, we really murdered some of those French pronunciations&#8230; Can you say &#8220;refrigerator&#8221; in French? Yikes! (For you German speakers, I can&#8217;t even begin to imagine what it is!). And all the &#8220;le, la, les and l&#8217;xxx&#8221; are confusing me. This makes me want to go back and dig out the French edition of my Rosetta Stone language DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Bryan is showing some early signs of &#8220;Terrible Twos&#8221;. He&#8217;s become very fussy and demanding of what he wants (and wants 5 minutes ago!) even though he has very limited vocabulary &#8212; no matter; action speak louder than words! I read somewhere that the &#8220;.5s&#8221; are even worse sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan looks like a big rat in that Kangaroo costume&#8230; but CUTE nonetheless!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/bryan_kangaroo.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Kangaroo Costume\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Discovery of H2O&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/bryan_discoverH2O.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Discovering H2O\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230; I can&#8217;t believe I went for 3 weeks without posting anything! First some stuff on Bryan&#8230; He&#8217;s now practically a toddler with new vocabulary that continue to surprise us on daily basis. Even though we speak Mandarin to him 99% of the time at home, he seems to understand a whole lot of English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/26\/growth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s54IqZ-growth","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}