{"id":649,"date":"2011-05-27T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=649"},"modified":"2011-05-30T17:28:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T00:28:28","slug":"big-girl-sophia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Big Girl Sophia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia had a birthday last week.\u00a0 She turned 3 years old.\u00a0 This was a really fun birthday because it is the first birthday that she really knew what was going on.\u00a0 I woke her up and sang happy birthday to her and she was so excited.\u00a0 All day I would spontaneously sing happy birthday to her.\u00a0 Eventually it got to the point that she would also spontaneously sing happy birthday to herself.\u00a0 In the evening we had her open presents.\u00a0 This is also the first year that she really didn&#8217;t need help opening the gifts.\u00a0 She was so excited about everything.\u00a0 Then it was time for cake.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t look too closely at it.\u00a0 I had Corey make the cake and frosting and I decorated it.\u00a0 He used butter in the frosting that wasn&#8217;t completely softened and it wouldn&#8217;t come out of the tips very well.\u00a0 At some point one of the tips exploded on the cake and made a big pink mess.\u00a0 So then I just gave up on making it look decent.\u00a0 Sophia loved blowing out the candles it took a few tries and a little spit spray but eventually she got them out.\u00a0 We cut into the cake and something was very wrong.\u00a0 I asked Corey if he followed the directions and he said &#8220;yes&#8221;.\u00a0 We used a boxed cake but I used half of it for Preston&#8217;s cake a couple of weeks before.\u00a0 So we were using the other half for this one.\u00a0 Corey remembered to follow the directions but forgot to half the recipe.\u00a0 So we had too much egg, oil, and water.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t care for the texture and taste of the cake but the kids still liked it so it wasn&#8217;t a total disaster.\u00a0\u00a0 All in all she had a wonderful birthday and we had fun celebrating it with her.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe she is 3, what a big girl.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_650\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0856.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-650\" title=\"Sophia's birthday money\" src=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0856-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0856-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0856-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Money from Grandma and Grandpa Tiffany<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_651\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-651\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-651\" title=\"Sophia hat and purse\" src=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0862-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0862-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0862-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hat and Purse made by Nami Edwards.  The cuitest things in the world.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_652\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0867.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-652\" title=\"Sophia b-day dress-up\" src=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0867-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0867-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0867-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">She loves to dress up<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_653\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0873.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-653\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-653\" title=\"Birthday # 3\" src=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0873-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#39;s my birthday raw raw raw.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_654\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 173px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0877.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-654\" title=\"Blowing out the candles\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0877-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0877-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0877-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a> <\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Blowing out the candles<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_655\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0879.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-655\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-655\" title=\"New cup\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0879-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0879-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSCF0879-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cool new cup from Nami and Nampa Edwards<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia had a birthday last week.\u00a0 She turned 3 years old.\u00a0 This was a really fun birthday because it is the first birthday that she really knew what was going on.\u00a0 I woke her up and sang happy birthday to her and she was so excited.\u00a0 All day I would spontaneously sing happy birthday to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,52],"tags":[31,53,3,6],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-sophia","tag-birthday","tag-children","tag-family","tag-sophia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}