{"id":238,"date":"2006-02-03T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T15:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=238"},"modified":"2006-02-03T09:17:41","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T15:17:41","slug":"a-for-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/02\/03\/a-for-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A’ for effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m really making an effort to enjoy every single moment with Ava as she is now.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not so difficult.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s sweet and engaging and affectionate and funny.\u00c2\u00a0 But I know the odds are she’s on the verge of a difficult developmental stage<\/a> that could see her become much more assertive and temperamental.\u00c2\u00a0 The assertive part is fine with me; it’s the temperamental part that has me worried (she just started saying “no” this week).<\/p>\n

So I’m stockpiling memories of her cuteness to help me weather this coming storm.\u00c2\u00a0 One of her most recent accomplishments is the head nod for “yes.”\u00c2\u00a0 If it were just an ordinary little head nod it might not be as cute as it is, but Ava has a great twist on the old classic.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of simply moving her head up and down when I ask her a question, she rocks her whole upper body back and forth like a 15-year-old in the front row at an Ozzy show<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s hilarious.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s so earnest and eager to convey her desires, and when she comes across a new way to communicate, she grasps it quickly and throws all her energy into it.\u00c2\u00a0 Reason #989,708 why I love my daughter.\u00c2\u00a0 Bring on the terrible twos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m really making an effort to enjoy every single moment with Ava as she is now.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not so difficult.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s sweet and engaging and affectionate and funny.\u00c2\u00a0 But I know the odds are she’s on the verge of a difficult developmental stage that could see her become much more assertive and temperamental.\u00c2\u00a0 The assertive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-3Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}