{"id":656,"date":"2009-04-12T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2009-04-12T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T15:56:00","slug":"willow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/willow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Willow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SeIQ_rvZi2I\/AAAAAAAABlQ\/4K-O3KSaGfM\/s1600-h\/Spring44.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323836395764681570\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 304px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SeIQ_rvZi2I\/AAAAAAAABlQ\/4K-O3KSaGfM\/s320\/Spring44.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Last night I was sitting on the couch watching a movie with my wife and my baby daughter, Willow.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>She is quite the little miracle. She is a temperate baby, smiling and chewing on her fingers. She will quietly go along with what we are doing for hours on end, without so much as a fuss. She never really gets worked up about anything&#8211; when she does cry (rarely) we rush over because something must really be distressing her. She is now four months old. Can you believe that?<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>She likes loud noises. There was a scene in our movie where a fire station alarm goes off and there were sirens. Her eyes got big and she let out a shriek of delight, squirming her baby body as if to try and get into the screen. She loves noise, music, alarms and will sleep through the loudest environment.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>She also likes to be held above my head (firmly supported) and rocked slowly as if she were flying. I sing the junior bird song to her and she smiles.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SeKjzEp-lpI\/AAAAAAAABlg\/Q0R4o080VZw\/s1600-h\/willowhappy1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323997807323813522\" style=\"WIDTH: 215px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 221px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SeKjzEp-lpI\/AAAAAAAABlg\/Q0R4o080VZw\/s320\/willowhappy1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I went out this morning for a walk, but returned quickly for the camera. I took a round of &#8220;beautiful stuff&#8221; pics. The trees are in bloom. It&#8217;s like a coral reef of lime green and pale lavender, and on the surface of the ocean are clouds.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Brightly colored flowers have been planted and bulbs are blooming.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>My life is so good it&#8217;s scary. My kids are healthy and happy. I&#8217;ve got a good wife and a good job. I am ever so grateful from the bottom of my heart. I give the glory to God, who is kind and merciful. I accept from him both good and ill, at His wise will and pleasure.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was sitting on the couch watching a movie with my wife and my baby daughter, Willow. . She is quite the little miracle. She is a temperate baby, smiling and chewing on her fingers. She will quietly go along with what we are doing for hours on end, without so much as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}