{"id":2413,"date":"2013-01-11T22:06:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T06:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2013-01-11T22:06:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T06:06:14","slug":"my-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/my-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"My Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This little one is absolutely precious.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/8372579818\/\" title=\"DSC_4116 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8510\/8372579818_c9708e2e28_z.jpg?resize=425%2C640\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" alt=\"DSC_4116\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My Judah Zane is 2.5 years old.  He joined our family during some of our darkest times and has brought light and hope with him.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/8372579970\/\" title=\"DSC_4126 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8517\/8372579970_3bdfc13097_z.jpg?resize=640%2C425\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" alt=\"DSC_4126\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Physically he is a big kid.  He was born big.  He&#8217;s remained big.  But his personality matches his size and is just as HUGE as the rest of him.  He plays hard and laughs hard and cuddles hard and loves equally as hard.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/8372580318\/\" title=\"DSC_4130 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8332\/8372580318_d8ef27073b_z.jpg?resize=425%2C640\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" alt=\"DSC_4130\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so strange to see him changing from a little baby into a toddler and he is rapidly racing through the toddler stages and into the little boy stages.  He is growing up so fast and sometimes I just want to stop time and keep him small&#8230;.but I can&#8217;t and so I snap these pics to hang on to the moments.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/8371509523\/\" title=\"DSC_4142 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8470\/8371509523_ed82eb7fce_z.jpg?resize=425%2C640\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" alt=\"DSC_4142\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To remember the little details&#8230;&#8230;..like those lips so soft and often so warm on my cheeks..<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/8372580596\/\" title=\"DSC_4167 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8516\/8372580596_e2a3e62d9e_z.jpg?resize=640%2C426\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" alt=\"DSC_4167\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To remember his eyelashes, his dimples, his ears and his little nose&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/8372581102\/\" title=\"DSC_4176 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8077\/8372581102_4135af8bd2_z.jpg?resize=640%2C425\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" alt=\"DSC_4176\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>For all of his size, he is such a sweet gentle boy&#8230;I think he&#8217;ll be one of those gentle giants. Big and yet so Loving&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/8372581340\/\" title=\"DSC_4179 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8237\/8372581340_05ab17b038_z.jpg?resize=640%2C425\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" alt=\"DSC_4179\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so thankful that this sweet boy joined our family.  He has brought so much life and joy into our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little one is absolutely precious. My Judah Zane is 2.5 years old. He joined our family during some of our darkest times and has brought light and hope with him. Physically he is a big kid. He was born big. He&#8217;s remained big. But his personality matches his size and is just as HUGE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/my-joy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Joy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}