{"id":3,"date":"2009-06-18T08:11:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/?p=3"},"modified":"2009-06-18T08:49:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T15:49:50","slug":"an-eventful-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"An eventful week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abi has had an eventful week.<\/p>\n<p>Grandma Elmira &amp; Aunt Riva came to visit from Friday to Tuesday. \u00c2\u00a0Abi had a lot of fun. \u00c2\u00a0She was a little fussy, and thus did not do much to convince Aunt Riva to make little cousins for Abi. \u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4\" title=\"Hanging out with Grandma at Mr. Sushi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/img_0353-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hanging out with Grandma at Mr. Sushi\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dad took his first overnight trip from Sunday to Wednesday. \u00c2\u00a0Abi &amp; Dad video chatted almost every night (except when Abi zonked out early). \u00c2\u00a0They had a lot of fun. \u00c2\u00a0I was not sure that Abi would recognize her Dad because video chatting is a very different cognitive experience than hanging out in person &#8211; but she did. \u00c2\u00a0She had a lot to say to him. \u00c2\u00a0She was very happy when he came home, and of course remembered all the fun she has pulling his pony tail. \u00c2\u00a0Thankfully, there are no more overnight trips on his horizon.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Abi went to her first postnatal class at Isis Maternity. \u00c2\u00a0It is the Next Stages class (for ages 3-5 months). \u00c2\u00a0It involves singing, movement exercises etc. \u00c2\u00a0We highly recommend it. \u00c2\u00a0At the beginning of class, she was staring intensely at the class facilitator and smiling at her. \u00c2\u00a0The facilitator stared back at Abi, and lost her concentration. \u00c2\u00a0Teacher&#8217;s pet!<\/p>\n<p>Abi is also progressing on her physical development. \u00c2\u00a0She cannot support herself in a sitting position. \u00c2\u00a0However, when sitting with support, she is pulling herself forward when holding on to someone&#8217;s hand in front of her, and bracing herself with her hands when falling forwards. \u00c2\u00a0She can also support herself in a sitting position by holding Mommy&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>She has been standing for a while (when supported under her arms) but has absolutely no balance. \u00c2\u00a0Recently, she has started trying to take steps, and no longer stands on curled toes. \u00c2\u00a0When sitting, she pushes down with her legs to let us know that she wants to stand up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abi has had an eventful week. Grandma Elmira &amp; Aunt Riva came to visit from Friday to Tuesday. \u00c2\u00a0Abi had a lot of fun. \u00c2\u00a0She was a little fussy, and thus did not do much to convince Aunt Riva to make little cousins for Abi. \u00c2\u00a0 Dad took his first overnight trip from Sunday to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}