{"id":572,"date":"2011-05-01T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kikis-list.com\/2011\/05\/01\/happy-birthday-to-my-baby-girl\/"},"modified":"2013-06-18T17:14:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T21:14:46","slug":"happy-birthday-to-my-baby-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/01\/happy-birthday-to-my-baby-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to My Baby Girl."},"content":{"rendered":"
Today my little Anna Lou turns three. \u00a0I cannot believe it. \u00a0Where did the time go? \u00a0On Friday I told her that I was going to cry at her birthday party because she’s not a baby anymore. \u00a0She stopped what she was doing, came over and took my face in her hands and said “Don’t cry, Mommy, I have to be a big girl now, it’s ok.” \u00a0Seriously,\u00a0now I really AM going to cry.<\/div>\n
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Anna Louise was born on May 1, 2008. \u00a0She was named after my mom, Anita Louise.. who was named after her grandmother, Anna Louise. \u00a0An old Italian tradition is to name your children after their paternal grandparents, therefore all of my mother’s cousins were already named Anna by the time she came along. My Nanny tried to switch it up and name her Anita… \u00a0Well, that went over like a lead balloon. \u00a0In stubborn-old-Italian-grandmother tradition, she never spoke to my mother. \u00a0Before Neets<\/a> died, I told her that if we ever had another girl, we would name in her honor. \u00a0(She died two weeks before Elizabeth was born, but we had already picked E’s name.) However, (as I also told her) I could not do Anita, so we would revert to Anna. \u00a0And the rest is history.<\/div>\n
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She was a big girl, so I had a scheduled C-Section. \u00a0That being said, on April 30 at 11:00 pm, my water broke. \u00a0As you may have read about my belief in the significance of dates<\/a>, I was thrilled that she was picking her own birthday. \u00a0I believe that this has a lot to do with a person’s make-up. \u00a0Well, luckily I was able to hold on through the night, but because three other women’s water broke that night who were also scheduled, I had to wait. (Must have been a full moon.) \u00a0Luckily we were still in time for a C-Section because at one week early, this turkey weighed in at \u00a09 lbs. 14 oz. \u00a0We brought her home and Elizabeth said that she “wanted to put her baby sister in the trash can.”<\/div>\n
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Go figure- she won her over.<\/div>\n
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We are so lucky to have her. \u00a0She has brought our family so much joy.<\/div>\n
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She is the sweetest, kindest, most sensitive little girl in the world.<\/div>\n
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Sometimes a little mischievous…<\/div>\n
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And certainly taking advantage of the terrible twos….<\/i><\/div>\n
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But she’ll always be our Lou Lou Bug.<\/div>\n
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We love you Lou.<\/div>\n
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Happy Birthday!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today my little Anna Lou turns three. \u00a0I cannot believe it. \u00a0Where did the time go? \u00a0On Friday I told her that I was going to cry at her birthday party because she’s not a baby anymore. \u00a0She stopped what she was doing, came over and took my face in her hands and said “Don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,66,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-holiday","category-kiddos","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kikis-list.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}