{"id":257,"date":"2008-09-03T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=326"},"modified":"2008-09-03T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T03:00:09","slug":"girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a little girl.  She will be 2 years old in November.  When she was first born, there were many people who asked me, &#8220;What&#8217;s it like having a girl?&#8221; (as opposed to the two boys I had already given birth to).  It seemed a pretty silly question at the time, because for the first year of life, a baby is basically a baby, whether male or female.  They eat, sleep, cry, poop&#8230; and the cycle continues.  They learn to roll over and sit up and maybe even walk (although Lynae decided to wait a lot longer than that &#8211; and we&#8217;re not complaining about that because they can get into a lot more things once they&#8217;re really mobile).  But boys and girls are pretty much the same.  They just have different parts.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, as my little girl is getting older I am now starting to see more and more &#8216;girl&#8217; in her.  I realize every child&#8217;s personality is different, but there are things about Lynae that seem more &#8216;girl&#8217; than strictly personality.  She&#8217;s more emotional.  She&#8217;s more dramatic when she&#8217;s emotional.  She will sprawl on the floor and cry if she&#8217;s not happy.  She likes to wear pretty clothes (although I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s because everyone makes a big fuss about her being a &#8216;pretty girl&#8217; &#8211; she definitely likes the attention).  She also likes it when I put her hair in a ponytail (although again I wonder if the reasons are the same as what I just mentioned).<\/p>\n<p>I was talking to my husband this morning about the &#8216;girl&#8217; features of Lynae.  I was trying to put into words the differences I see in her versus my boys.  Finally I said, &#8220;Girls&#8230;just&#8230;get upset.&#8221;  My husband was killing himself laughing.  He seemed to think that was a pretty good explanation.  And he added that sometimes I&#8230;just&#8230;get upset.  lol<\/p>\n<p>(it must be a &#8216;girl&#8217; thing then)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a little girl. She will be 2 years old in November. When she was first born, there were many people who asked me, [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=257\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}