{"id":145,"date":"2003-09-24T12:53:34","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T12:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2003-09-24T12:53:34","modified_gmt":"2003-09-24T12:53:34","slug":"baby-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Baby Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cambell has begun his attempts to walk.  He&#8217;s not exactly steady on his feet &#8212; he requires both two hands to steady himself &#8212; but stepping seems to be in his blood.  He didn&#8217;t need guidance.  Those knees bent and those feet began to step all by themselves.  Miraculous.  I have a feeling that he&#8217;ll be walking by himself very soon.  The great chase begins.<\/p>\n<p>Standing, something he started a few weeks ago, <i>was<\/i> the ability that excited him.  The moment he learned he could do it, standing became the only thing he wanted to do.  Sitting on my lap is becoming a thing of the past.  Dad, I want to stand.  Why?  Because I <i>can<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we put yet another check mark in his list of accomplishments.<br \/>\nI was excited when I was greeted with a hello from my son in the morning hours so many months ago.  This morning, though, was much sweeter.  I didn&#8217;t get a hello today.  I got a &#8220;Dada&#8221; &#8211; the very first one.  Dada was thrilled beyond words.  He should have taken the opportunity to ask for a car.  He might have gotten one.  Or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambell has begun his attempts to walk. He&#8217;s not exactly steady on his feet &#8212; he requires both two hands to steady himself &#8212; but stepping seems to be in his blood. He didn&#8217;t need guidance. Those knees bent and those feet began to step all by themselves. Miraculous. I have a feeling that he&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}