{"id":166,"date":"2014-11-12T21:15:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notsoshortterm.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2014-11-23T14:38:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T14:38:05","slug":"mamas-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notsoshortterm.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Mama’s child"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh Lovebug, in the scheme of letters and posts directed to you, this one is a little silly but I can’t help but write about it!!\u00a0 My child, you LOVE to organize!!!!\u00a0 As I write those words, I am literally grinning from ear to ear thinking of the countless moments that have led me to make such an assertion.\u00a0 For months now, you have loved putting items back in their proper places.\u00a0 The teacher in me beamed at the development of categorization in your brain, but now it has grown into so much more.\u00a0 You close doors that are left open.\u00a0 You rearrange items in our cabinets.\u00a0 You pick up clothes you find around the house and carry them into the laundry room.\u00a0 It’s enough to make me swoon!!<\/p>\n

Last night, I was getting everything ready for bath\/bedtime when I came across this scene on your toy shelf.\u00a0 You had very meticulously arranged Dexter and one of your “guys” beneath the covered deck on Noah’s Ark.\u00a0 I was so touched by the sweetness of it, I had to snap a picture.<\/p>\n

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When I met you in the bathroom and told you that it was time to hop in the tub, you rushed past me.\u00a0 I realized you had a random car in your hands and knew exactly what you were doing.\u00a0 You wanted to be sure to put it away before bath time.\u00a0 I followed you into your room and watched as you returned the car to its proper place.\u00a0 Before racing back to the bath, you made sure to nestle Dexter back into the driver’s seat of his digger and put your “guy” away as well!!\u00a0 I was covered up in joy over this little moment.\u00a0 Your attention to detail and follow through is just exquisite!!<\/p>\n

Another mom at My Gym yesterday laughed when her boy threw blocks across the room and you hurried over, scooped them up, and returned them to the block pile.\u00a0 She said her oldest son was the same way and that he continues to love organizing things today at age 9.\u00a0 That made me wonder…will you?<\/p>\n

I am going to share one final example and then I will end this, as I am sure that you are rolling your eyes at what I find so impossibly endearing.\u00a0 Last week we spent time in St Simons and had guests staying at the beach house.\u00a0 One of the gentlemen used the restroom and after returning to the group, you walked into the bathroom and promptly put down the seat he had left up!!\u00a0 My boy!!!<\/p>\n

I know it probably seems so silly that I am this amazed by all of this, but this is one of those times where I can actually see me in you.\u00a0 You are SO wonderfully, beautifully, perfectly like your Daddy in so many ways.\u00a0 Your hunger for adventure, your boldness, your ability to make us laugh, your impish grin, you truly are your father’s child and I couldn’t be happier.\u00a0 I love your Daddy with every cell in my body, so naturally I am over the moon that you are so much like him.\u00a0 It warms my heart, though, to find a glimmer that you and I share.\u00a0 I’m not sure if this is a phase or a part of your permanent wiring, but for the moment, I am delighting in it.<\/p>\n

You are such a treasure.\u00a0 Every day that I am blessed to spend with you, I thank God over and over.\u00a0 I feel forever privileged to have all of this time with you–I love you more than you will ever know!!!!<\/p>\n

AML,<\/p>\n

Mama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh Lovebug, in the scheme of letters and posts directed to you, this one is a little silly but I can’t help but write about it!!\u00a0 My child, you LOVE to organize!!!!\u00a0 As I write those words, I am literally grinning from ear to ear thinking of the countless moments that have led me to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[17,8],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-william","category-william","tag-letters-to-william","tag-william-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notsoshortterm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notsoshortterm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notsoshortterm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notsoshortterm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notsoshortterm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/notsoshortterm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/notsoshortterm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notsoshortterm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notsoshortterm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notsoshortterm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}