{"id":24,"date":"2009-09-02T20:58:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T00:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2009-09-02T20:58:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T00:58:35","slug":"interacting-with-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Interacting with Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love it!\u00a0 I really love it!<\/p>\n<p>I love talking and teaching and touching-<\/p>\n<p>I love caring and cheering and clapping-<\/p>\n<p>I love feeding- I love reading.<\/p>\n<p>I love holding them on my lap<\/p>\n<p>and catching them up into my arms<\/p>\n<p>as they run towards me.<\/p>\n<p>I love their smiles and frowns-<\/p>\n<p>quizzical looks-<\/p>\n<p>and that pleased look of<\/p>\n<p>accomplishment<\/p>\n<p>when they did\/said<\/p>\n<p>it just right!<\/p>\n<p>I love their small bossiness<\/p>\n<p>when they are<\/p>\n<p>in CHARGE<\/p>\n<p>of the<\/p>\n<p>game.<\/p>\n<p>And I love to<\/p>\n<p>decipher<\/p>\n<p>when all their<\/p>\n<p>words sound<\/p>\n<p>the same.<\/p>\n<p>I think becoming<\/p>\n<p>a grandma<\/p>\n<p>is the BEST<\/p>\n<p>thing I&#8217;ve<\/p>\n<p>EVER done!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/SNAKE-and-the-picnic-grandpas-cheese-barn-010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/SNAKE-and-the-picnic-grandpas-cheese-barn-010_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SNAKE and the picnic-grandpa's cheese barn 010\" width=\"289\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Chincoteague-2009-Luke-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Chincoteague-2009-Luke-003_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chincoteague 2009 (Luke) 003\" width=\"323\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Chincoteague-2009-Luke-243.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Chincoteague-2009-Luke-243_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chincoteague 2009 (Luke) 243\" width=\"294\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love it!\u00a0 I really love it! I love talking and teaching and touching- I love caring and cheering and clapping- I love feeding- I love reading. I love holding them on my lap and catching them up into my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=24\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stepsonthejourney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}