{"id":1216,"date":"2012-07-15T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2012-07-15T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T23:22:07","slug":"levis-7th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"Levi&#8217;s 7th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1217\" style=\"width: 142px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF3183.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1217\" class=\" wp-image-1217\" title=\"DSCF3183\" src=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF3183-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF3183-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF3183-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iceberg with penguins cake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A little less than a month ago on June 27th we celebrated Levi&#8217;s 7th birthday.\u00a0 This was a non-party year for him.\u00a0 My kids only get parties for their birthdays every other year.\u00a0 We do this for a number of reasons.\u00a0 It saves us money on having to throw a party each year.\u00a0 It makes it more special when they do get a party.\u00a0 This is something my parents did when I was young.\u00a0 This year I made the mistake of watching &#8220;Cake Boss&#8221; with the kids about a month before Levi&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0 Levi decided that he wanted an iceberg cake with penguins.\u00a0 In his mind he was thinking it&#8217;s going to be a multi layered cake with intricate details.\u00a0 In my mind how can I make this look as simple as possible.\u00a0 So that is what we ended up with.\u00a0 The star was another requirement Levi wanted.\u00a0 I think he wanted it to be suspended somehow in the air.\u00a0 Sorry kid I&#8217;m no Buddy (the guy from Cake Boss).\u00a0 We had a pretty simple birthday celebration with the family.\u00a0 At lunch we had cake and opened presents and then for dinner we let him pick where he wanted to go.\u00a0 Surprise, surprise he picked McDonald&#8217;s.\u00a0 Over all I think he enjoyed his birthday and had a good time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1218\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF3186.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1218\" class=\" wp-image-1218\" title=\"DSCF3186\" src=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF3186-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF3186-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF3186-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blowing out the candles<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1219\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF3189.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1219\" class=\" wp-image-1219\" title=\"DSCF3189\" src=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF3189-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF3189-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF3189-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opening gifts from Nammy and Nampa.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little less than a month ago on June 27th we celebrated Levi&#8217;s 7th birthday.\u00a0 This was a non-party year for him.\u00a0 My kids only get parties for their birthdays every other year.\u00a0 We do this for a number of reasons.\u00a0 It saves us money on having to throw a party each year.\u00a0 It makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,49,51],"tags":[31,53,3,5],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-family","category-levi","tag-birthday","tag-children","tag-family","tag-levi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}