{"id":4538,"date":"2022-01-22T16:29:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T00:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2022-01-22T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T04:02:09","slug":"meghan-is-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=4538","title":{"rendered":"Meghan is 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poof! Meghan is 4! Just like that!<\/p>\n<p>Motherhood is never easy. You don&#8217;t ever stop worrying. They say &#8220;Prevention is better than cure&#8221; I say &#8221; Prevention makes you go crazy&#8221; Living during these pandemic times, with Meghan still too young to get vaccinated makes me anxious. I have no idea how others do it but I struggle every day.. worried about my family&#8217;s health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>My heart aches when Meghan ask me when can she go to Disneyland or Hawaii or sometimes &#8220;Can I have a brother\/sister?&#8221; Oh.. Meghan we want so much for you but it&#8217;s not as easy as you think. I hope things get better or be normal soon so that we can enjoy fun activities without being worried about taking COVID tests or catching any kind of viruses.<\/p>\n<p>About a month before 4, you suddenly caught up with potty training. You acknowledge when you are urgent and could go potty all by yourself. On most nights, you kept your pull-up dry and could go pee at night. You are still working on pooping on the potty. We are proud of what a big girl you had become. <\/p>\n<p>These days you aspire to be an astronaut. And you love to play pretent going to space (which I love). You are also very aware and sensitive to my feelings and help to calm me down, just like how I calm you down. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, you can be quite strong-willed but will cooperate with us after much coaxing. The nights are indeed long but the years are short. (Haha I may have changed the quote but it sure feels like that for me)<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday dear girl! May all your dreams and aspirations come true! Remember everything we do, we do it for you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poof! Meghan is 4! Just like that! Motherhood is never easy. You don&#8217;t ever stop worrying. They say &#8220;Prevention is better than cure&#8221; I say &#8221; Prevention makes you go crazy&#8221; Living during these pandemic times, with Meghan still too young to get vaccinated makes me anxious. I have no idea how others do it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=4538\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meghan is 4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4543,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}