{"id":292,"date":"2008-07-09T21:01:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T02:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/?p=292"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:07:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:07:30","slug":"two-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/09\/two-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who might not know, today is two-day.\u00a0 Ok, this day is really just a day that we celebrated as today is Quin&#8217;s second birthday.\u00a0 I must admit that the day Quin was born I had absolutely no idea how he would change my life.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t even sure what I would do with a little boy from the time we had our sonogram almost 20 weeks into pregnancy.\u00a0 Rick kept assuring me that all I needed to do was to love him.\u00a0 The rest would work itself out.\u00a0 True to his character, Rick was right.\u00a0 I find that if I just love Quin, he continues to delight me. \u00a0Today was a day that Quin delighted in lots of things.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a rather busy day.\u00a0 It started off with a dental appointment for me.\u00a0 So Quin had a great time playing with his buddy Nicholas for a couple of hours.\u00a0 Then we headed home for a visit with our friends the Sandfoss&#8217;.\u00a0 They were kind enough to pick up some Chick-fil-A for lunch, and also brought balloons and gifts for Quin.\u00a0 How very thoughtful!\u00a0 Quin now has a lovely new play mat with lots of letters, and a great book and doodler for traveling.\u00a0 He had a great time playing while Jessica and Jared entertained him. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After his nap, Quin had his favorite dinner &#8211; spaghetti.\u00a0 This was followed up with some presents from mom and dad.\u00a0 (Feel free to ask us about Quin&#8217;s new RC car.\u00a0 Even dad had fun playing with it.)\u00a0 Then Aunt Rachel, Uncle Mike and Grant and Marah came for the grand finale.\u00a0 Cake and Ice Cream! \n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-292 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/09\/two-day\/img_0772\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_0772-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/09\/two-day\/img_0786\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_0786-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/09\/two-day\/img_0770\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/img_0770-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful to God that he has given me a little boy to love.\u00a0 Every day isn&#8217;t quite like a birthday, but it sure has been an adventure, one I wouldn&#8217;t trade for anything.\u00a0 Happy Two-Day Quin. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(P.S. for Quin:\u00a0 Your third birthday may be a little different with a sibling&#8230;so brace yourself.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who might not know, today is two-day.\u00a0 Ok, this day is really just a day that we celebrated as today is Quin&#8217;s second birthday.\u00a0 I must admit that the day Quin was born I had absolutely no idea how he would change my life.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t even sure what I would do with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}