{"id":3982,"date":"2010-08-30T15:03:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T21:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2010-08-30T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T23:22:31","slug":"three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/three\/","title":{"rendered":"Three!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Littlest Apple,<\/p>\n<p>You turn THREE tomorrow!\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe how much you&#8217;ve changed in the last year.\u00c2\u00a0 So, so much has happened!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re potty trained.<\/p>\n<p>You can recognize all of your letters and know what sounds they make.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve had a vocabulary explosion, and almost everyone can understand what you say.<\/p>\n<p>You already have an entire year of Mother&#8217;s Day Out under your belt.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re gaining weight!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got even more energy than you had before.\u00c2\u00a0 Your energy just blows me away some days.<\/p>\n<p>You ask LOTS of questions.<\/p>\n<p>You love Curious George and Buzz Lightyear.<\/p>\n<p>I am so thankful to have you in my life.\u00c2\u00a0 After all we&#8217;ve been through, I know what a miracle it is that you&#8217;re here.\u00c2\u00a0 You brighten our days with your exuberance, your sweet spirit, your sense of humor, and your vivid imagination.\u00c2\u00a0 You challenge me to be a better parent and a better person.\u00c2\u00a0 I am so proud to be your mom.\u00c2\u00a0 I love you so so much!<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Mommy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Finns-Third-Birthday-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3988\" title=\"Finn's Third Birthday 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Finns-Third-Birthday-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Finns-Third-Birthday-2.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Finns-Third-Birthday-2-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Finns-Third-Birthday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3984\" title=\"Finn's Third Birthday\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Finns-Third-Birthday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Finns-Third-Birthday.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Finns-Third-Birthday-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Finns-Third-Birthday-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3989\" title=\"Finn's Third Birthday 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Finns-Third-Birthday-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Finns-Third-Birthday-3.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Finns-Third-Birthday-3-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/three\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Littlest Apple, You turn THREE tomorrow!\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe how much you&#8217;ve changed in the last year.\u00c2\u00a0 So, so much has happened! You&#8217;re potty trained. You can recognize all of your letters and know what sounds they make. You&#8217;ve had a vocabulary explosion, and almost everyone can understand what you say. You already have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}