{"id":936,"date":"2005-10-02T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/02\/question-from-an-exhausted-mother\/"},"modified":"2005-10-02T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T00:46:00","slug":"question-from-an-exhausted-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/02\/question-from-an-exhausted-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Question from an exhausted mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can one tiny child, who isn&#8217;t even two years old, be such a monkey???!!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Two trips to the pool<br \/>&#8212; Multiple walks around the neighborhood where he: chased birds, tried to grab bumble bees, attempted to eat acorns and berries, checked the mailbox at least 57 times, and stomped on ants<br \/>&#8212; Two household water accidents: one where he flooded the floor of Granna&#8217;s bathroom with the hand-held water spigot for the bathtub in the thirty seconds it took me to throw away his diaper; and another when my Mom, who was holding him, was on the phone and didn&#8217;t see him turn the sink spigot over the floor and turn on the water full blast, soaking her, a cat, and the floor<br \/>&#8212; Many, many, MANY games of &#8220;golf ball&#8221;<br \/>&#8212; Many, many, MANY trips up and down the stairs<br \/>&#8212; Emptying three drawers in our bedroom and playing in the piles of clean clothes<br \/>&#8212; 700 grapes, 1 cup of pudding, an apple, potatoes, vegetable soup, goldfish crackers, corn, peas, baked chicken, OFB, scrambled eggs, toast, and ham<br \/>&#8212; At least 5 bowel movements (complete with Will flushing it down the toilet calling &#8220;bye, bye, do-do!!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>How can a 1-year-old go through all of that in one day and STILL be crazy????<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can one tiny child, who isn&#8217;t even two years old, be such a monkey???!!! &#8212; Two trips to the pool&#8212; Multiple walks around the neighborhood where he: chased birds, tried to grab bumble bees, attempted to eat acorns and berries, checked the mailbox at least 57 times, and stomped on ants&#8212; Two household water [&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\/936"}],"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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}