{"id":81,"date":"2009-04-30T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/30\/an-open-letter-to-jack-on-his-6th-birthday\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T11:54:00","slug":"an-open-letter-to-jack-on-his-6th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/an-open-letter-to-jack-on-his-6th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to Jack on his 6th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><strong><em>Dear Jack,<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, my sweet boy!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe you&#8217;re 6 years old already.&nbsp; What a wonderful six years it has been.<\/p>\n<p>You are such a sweet and special boy.&nbsp; There are so many reasons I love you but here are a few.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You get wild and crazy and talk gibberish and run around like a crazed monkey.<\/li>\n<li>When you are trying to be especially sweet or well mannered, you talk with a British accent.<\/li>\n<li>You still love to snuggle with your mama.<\/li>\n<li>You love animals.<\/li>\n<li>You are patient with your troublesome little brother and crazy-making big sisters and even like them a lot of the time.<\/li>\n<li>You make darling drawings.<\/li>\n<li>You love books.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re not above doing &quot;girl stuff&quot; if it&#8217;s fun.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re generous.<\/li>\n<li>You love to cook, do crafts and play games.<\/li>\n<li>You ask to &quot;do kindergarten.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Your favorite color is green and you love being outside.<\/li>\n<li>You collect metal pieces to build your Alicia-bot (the full size robot mama you are building to take over my other jobs so you can have more time with me).<\/li>\n<li>You make me smile.<\/li>\n<li>You are dramatic, entertaining and funny.<\/li>\n<li>You are very smart.<\/li>\n<li>You try to do the right thing.<\/li>\n<li>You have a good heart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love you with all my heart, my sweetie pie.&nbsp; Please always let me ruffle your hair and give you kisses every once in a while even though you&#8217;re too old for it now.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>You bring us all so much happiness and so many smiles.&nbsp; Thank you so much for being my <strike>little<\/strike> big boy.<\/p>\n<p>I love you!<\/p>\n<p>Love, Mama<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3352\/3489885813_0fb57940bf.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3627\/3490700590_08d80957f3.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3315\/3489885885_bb20e65b6f.jpg?v=0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3588\/3489885929_28dfae3fb2.jpg?v=0\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3586\/3489885983_06bcf9b179.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3316\/3489886005_998256ac2c.jpg?v=0\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3568\/3490700700_2e8f2b0a6b.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3543\/3489886057_640f05a2bb.jpg?v=0\" \/> &nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3335\/3490700742_f3d87a25b5.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3557\/3489886109_69e1462a03.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3639\/3489932353_c41e1e9ec9.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3356\/3490740972_1dfe1db689.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy 6th Birthday, Sweetie!<br \/>I hope you had a wonderful day!<br \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Jack, Happy birthday, my sweet boy! I can&#8217;t believe you&#8217;re 6 years old already.&nbsp; What a wonderful six years it has been. You are such a sweet and special boy.&nbsp; There are so many reasons I love you but here are a few. You get wild and crazy and talk gibberish and run around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[129,168,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}