{"id":311,"date":"2008-08-27T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/?p=311"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:07:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:07:29","slug":"whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2008\/08\/27\/whats-new\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\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-311 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><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\/08\/27\/whats-new\/img_0885\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0885-150x150.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\/08\/27\/whats-new\/img_0891\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0891-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\nThe posts have been pretty scarce lately. \u00a0This doesn&#8217;t mean that things haven&#8217;t been going on, just that I&#8217;ve been a bit lazy, I suppose. \u00a0We returned from our beach vacation and slowly returned to a normal routine around the house. \u00a0Rick has been busy doing things to his &#8220;vintage&#8221; motorcycle. \u00a0(But I&#8217;d rather have him post more details about that.) \u00a0Quin has been repeating more and more words lately. \u00a0Sadly though, he still will not put many words together for us. \u00a0Some favorites these days are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pease (please)<\/li>\n<li>Ank You (thank you)<\/li>\n<li>Snack<\/li>\n<li>Truck<\/li>\n<li>San (Sam, as in Sam the Fireman)<\/li>\n<li>Frankin (Franklin, as in the Noggin show)<\/li>\n<li>Clue (another Noggin show, Blue&#8217;s Clues)<\/li>\n<li>Mommy (which he yells at all times of the day and night. \u00a0Why did I want him to learn my name so much?)<\/li>\n<li>Ouside (outside)<\/li>\n<li>Grant &amp; Marah (his obvious favorite cousins)<\/li>\n<li>Dude (this is how he refers to his Uncle Mike)<\/li>\n<li>P-cakes (pancakes, which have been known to be requested at dinner time)<\/li>\n<li>Rick (this one particularly amuses me as Quin will holler for Rick whenever I do.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today I had an appointment at the OB\/GYN. \u00a0Things seem to be right on track with the pregnancy. Happily I only gained one pound since my last visit. \u00a0This prompted me to head right to Starbucks just as soon as I left the office! \u00a0I&#8217;ll be scheduling a sonogram for 4 weeks from now to find out if we should explore a girl or a boy name. \u00a0Again, I was advised to schedule a c-section for the baby. \u00a0I&#8217;m actually quite happy about that as we can actually schedule the baby&#8217;s birth date and arrange care for Quin.<\/p>\n<p>We spent some time last weekend trimming up bushes and spraying for poison ivy. \u00a0Somehow we were exposed to it when we trimmed our hedges right before heading to the beach early in August. \u00a0Rick&#8217;s arms have cleared up considerably, while my legs are still quite itchy. \u00a0Now that we know where the danger zone is we will be much more careful. \u00a0We also purchased a twin bed last weekend from Craig&#8217;s List. \u00a0Our hope is that we can transition Quin to a regular bed before February when the new baby will arrive. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My final thought on closing this post is to explain that despite Quin&#8217;s inability to put two words together, he has somehow managed, \u00a0to learn to say, &#8220;I ove you.&#8221; \u00a0(Translation: \u00a0I love you.) \u00a0I first heard him saying this to one of his trucks. \u00a0I was puzzled, to say the least. \u00a0I asked him, &#8220;Quin, do you love your truck?&#8221; \u00a0He just stared at me. \u00a0We do tell him we love him as often as possible. \u00a0His grandparents sent him a YoYo and Hoops Hallmark card for his birthday. \u00a0If anyone out there isn&#8217;t familiar with those, they are cards that contain a little audio chip in them. \u00a0When you open the card, it talks to you. \u00a0Quin has been playing with that card quite a bit lately. \u00a0The front says, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been working on saying this just right&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0The inside then repeats I love you, over and over. \u00a0So the combination of the card and just hearing these words time and time again have prompted our little guy to say I love you. \u00a0It&#8217;s just too cute. \u00a0We love you too Quin, even if you did tell your truck before you told us.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The posts have been pretty scarce lately. \u00a0This doesn&#8217;t mean that things haven&#8217;t been going on, just that I&#8217;ve been a bit lazy, I suppose. \u00a0We returned from our beach vacation and slowly returned to a normal routine around the house. \u00a0Rick has been busy doing things to his &#8220;vintage&#8221; motorcycle. \u00a0(But I&#8217;d rather have [&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":[61,51],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-miscellaneous","tag-quin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}