{"id":6654,"date":"2015-03-09T05:31:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T05:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=6654"},"modified":"2015-03-09T05:31:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T05:31:23","slug":"lydia-turns-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/09\/lydia-turns-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydia turns 4!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lydia woke up this morning and ran out of her room calling, “It’s my burfday! It’s my burfday!” Abe and I effused with birthday greetings, and then Lydia looked at me and said, “But mom, where’s the…you know!” \u00a0I told her I didn’t know.<\/p>\n

“Oh,” she replied bashfully, “never mind.”<\/p>\n

“No, darling! It’s your birthday. Tell me what you wanted to ask me.”<\/p>\n

“Well, where are all the…presents?”<\/p>\n

Oh, boy. My heart dropped. Abe and I tried to make a point that yesterday’s bike and trip to Disney on Ice were her presents, but I guess there’s nothing like waking up on your birthday and discovering all the fun was had the day before. Next year I’ll plan better.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, family and friends saved the day! She started off by opening Nana’s present, and that kept her occupied for the rest of the day. (Mom, she adores all of the craft supplies.) After lunch, she opened a huge, elaborate doctor kit from Clark and Swathi. I’m always hinting that she should be a doctor like Aunt Swathi, and it was really funny to see her open their head start on that plan. She loved it.<\/p>\n

Abe tried to make her bubble bath extra special too.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The biggest bubble bath they’ve ever had!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"IMG_1137\"<\/a> \"IMG_1131\"<\/a> \"IMG_1129\"<\/a> \"IMG_1122\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And then this evening, Tom, Suzanne, Isabella, Chelsea, Derek, Olivia, Carter and Camden all came over to celebrate with us.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>
This is Lydia waiting for Olivia to come over. She wanted really badly to craft with Olivia and talked of nothing but that for the hour and a half between church and her arrival. Mom, she crafted that crown with your supplies!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"She<\/a>
She did go outside to ride her bike a little in the beautiful weather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Her<\/a>
Her dirt cake. Lydia has a thing for gummy worms, and I think she liked this cake because it was FULL of them. Plus, she got to “plant” the cake this morning with all the flowers she could fit on there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"IMG_0224\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Presents!<\/a>
Presents! Everyone saved the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Isabella<\/a>
Isabella gave her the coolest gifts! They are a pair of toy songbirds that actually sing in harmony when you hold them close together.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mary<\/a>
Mary enjoyed the songbirds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Happy birthday, Lydia! We love you so much!!! And a huge thank-you to everyone who helped make this day a success!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lydia woke up this morning and ran out of her room calling, “It’s my burfday! It’s my burfday!” Abe and I effused with birthday greetings, and then Lydia looked at me and said, “But mom, where’s the…you know!” \u00a0I told her I didn’t know. “Oh,” she replied bashfully, “never mind.” “No, darling! It’s your birthday. … Continue reading Lydia turns 4!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}