{"id":1465,"date":"2006-05-18T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/its-all-in-the-timing\/"},"modified":"2006-05-18T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T20:31:00","slug":"its-all-in-the-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/its-all-in-the-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all in the timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 8 days old, Kate already shows an uncanny sense of comic timing.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, as she started into a rock-star, feed-me, burping, hiccupping, wide-awake and wild phase, I picked her up to be face to face with me to talk and sing to her (she loves this).  Just as I got her settled, she let out a huge burp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Goodness&#8221; I said.  &#8220;Got anything else in there?&#8221;  Just as the words were out of my mouth, I realized that this is the point in every parenting movie where the baby then spits up all over Mom.  And what does Kate then do?  Not missing a beat, she spits up all over both of us.  Timing.<\/p>\n<p>****<br \/>Kate&#8217;s crazy phase lasted most of the night last night (3-7am) and wore everyone out.  I was okay until about 5:30am, when my incision point started to ache and sting &#8212; at this point I woke up Paul to take over.  The long and short of it is that Kate kicked all of our butts.  Earlier this afternoon, Paul came in to watch her for a few minutes.  He holds her in his arms and says to her, &#8220;Wow, little one.  You&#8217;ve brought us all to our knees.  Mommy is exhausted, Daddy is falling asleep sitting up, and Granna is tired, too.  What do you think about all that?&#8221;  As if on queue, Kate bears down and grunts out a gigantic gorpul (our word for the sound that signals a diaper has been dirtied.)  Timing, timing, timing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 8 days old, Kate already shows an uncanny sense of comic timing. Last night, as she started into a rock-star, feed-me, burping, hiccupping, wide-awake and wild phase, I picked her up to be face to face with me to talk and sing to her (she loves this). Just as I got her settled, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}