{"id":618,"date":"2009-06-30T08:02:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=618"},"modified":"2009-06-29T19:58:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T03:58:50","slug":"happy-birthday-xandra-janelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/happy-birthday-xandra-janelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Xandra Janelle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Xandra’s 11th Birthday today.<\/p>\n

\"Xani<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Wow! Does time ever fly by? It’s hard to believe that this little girl has grown up so fast.<\/p>\n

She was my BABY. I wanted a baby and had Geli and all she wanted to do was to grow up so SO fast. So I got pregnant with Alexandra 6 months after Angelica was born and she was ALL BABY, ALL THE TIME!<\/p>\n

In fact, Xandra was still a baby LOOOOONG after Jeremy was born. <\/p>\n

She still wanted to be held and carried and packed around like a baby. She did for a long time.<\/p>\n

\"Xani<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I remember us talking about how she was in her own little word. I thought that was just her personality….turns out she just couldn’t see and all those hours spent talking to herself as she sat 2 inches away from the mirror were probably her way of connecting with actual people instead of moving and shifting blobs….<\/p>\n

I remember the Dr talking to us about how poor her eye sight actually was. It’s amazing she is as well adjusted as she is and now, her eye sight is fairly well…..not perfect, but perfect with glasses and honestly, the Dr wasn’t even sure that we could pull that much off. So we are so thankful for how far she’s come.<\/p>\n

The school was even talking to us about autism in Grade One…..got the girl some glasses and turns out that not only is she not autistic, but that she’s above average. Who woulda thunk it?<\/p>\n

\"Xani<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

She is happy and bubbly and has the most amazing personality. She is soft and gentle followed with a quick wit and acid temper if she is crossed. She is the most amazing set of contradictions and I love her. She makes me laugh and cry and wonder how I was so blessed to have been a part of bringing her into this world.<\/p>\n

She is growing up so fast. Faster than Geli is… in some ways…..it’s scarey. I’m not sure if it’s her friends this year or just her inquisitive personality, but she’s so interested in fashion and all things “girly” and even boys…..<\/p>\n

One thing we have in our favor is that we can and do talk about so much. She has unending questions and while I might not always have the answers, we can at least go searching for those answers together and hand in hand we will find answers to all the questions she has.<\/p>\n

\"Xani<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

She is growing up to be a gorgeous woman inside and out and while she still has some time yet…I often catch glimpses of the woman she will become and my heart swells with pride and love and joy…..but mostly love.<\/p>\n

Happy 11th Birthday, my sweet bunny!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Xandra’s 11th Birthday today. Wow! Does time ever fly by? It’s hard to believe that this little girl has grown up so fast. She was my BABY. I wanted a baby and had Geli and all she wanted to do was to grow up so SO fast. So I got pregnant with Alexandra 6 … Continue reading “Happy Birthday, Xandra Janelle!”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-special-days","category-xandra"],"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\/618","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=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}