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Ava slept late this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 She was in our bed (which is where she often ends up after waking up in a fuss sometime during the night), and as I was getting ready for work, I stopped for a second to watch her breathe all stretched out on the rumpled sheets.<\/p>\n

I often wonder if she’s going to grow up to be like either Leah or me.\u00c2\u00a0 Not just in her personality or some physical quirk, but as a whole person.\u00c2\u00a0 Will she be ambitious?\u00c2\u00a0 Gentle?\u00c2\u00a0 Thoughtful?\u00c2\u00a0 Funny?\u00c2\u00a0 Caring?<\/p>\n

We all know plenty of people whose adult children are nothing like them (we may even be some of those adult children).\u00c2\u00a0 And then there are those who have kids who’re like carbon copies of their parents (get it?\u00c2\u00a0 Carbon <\/em><\/a>copies?!)\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder how this happens.\u00c2\u00a0 Given the overwhelming genetic inheritance and the amount of time a typical child spends with its parents as it grows, it’s a wonder we’re not all exactly like our folks.<\/p>\n

Life must be full of these opportunities to form an independant personality.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re really starting to see it in Ava even now.\u00c2\u00a0 If we do something she doesn’t like, she’ll say, “No!” or push us away and say, “Back!”\u00c2\u00a0 For the last couple months I’d been putting Ava down to sleep at night, but in the last week she’s started saying, “Mommy do it.”\u00c2\u00a0 Which is fine with me; it’s just so amazing to see and hear her express herself this way.<\/p>\n

It’s cute now, but I’m certain I’ll find it much less so by the time she’s 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ava slept late this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 She was in our bed (which is where she often ends up after waking up in a fuss sometime during the night), and as I was getting ready for work, I stopped for a second to watch her breathe all stretched out on the rumpled sheets. I often wonder if […]<\/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-371","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\/s9oLlO-imprint","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}