{"id":2259,"date":"2008-02-12T20:21:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T04:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/02\/12\/babies-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:47:17","slug":"babies-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/02\/12\/babies-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 8th, our friends in upstate New York celebrated the first birthday of their son.<\/p>\n

On February 8th, our friends who are Bean’s Emergency Backup Parents (guardians), welcomed their niece into the world (in Florida).<\/p>\n

On February 10th, another couple (long-time friends who live locally) welcomed their daughter. We met her tonight. She is lovely, all 6 pounds and 13 ounces of her. It’s hard to believe Bean was that small not very long ago! Bean has a new playmate, though it will be a few months before either can appreciate this.<\/p>\n

On the subject of babies, and relating to the previous post<\/a> about breaking addictions since becoming a parent, I’ve released another attachment: to having bookshelves filled to the brim with books. I have two six-foot bookcases — one in the office and one in the living room. The one in the living room I have culled of all but either books I’ve not yet read (about 2 dozen) or books that are reference or have enough illustration to be interesting to little eyes someday. Onto all the other now-empty shelves will go things like the little boom box we use (on an upper shelf), random stuff like pens and paper, bibs, a page-a-day calendar, etc. that will not be able to sit close to the floor when Bean begins reaching and grabbing. We’ll also store some of her toys and books on the lower shelves. All of the culled books (the notches on my belt, you see, of my conquests) will be boxed and stored. I never<\/em> re-read books. Too many new ones to read! And you know what? I’ll probably forget what’s in the boxes as soon as they are out of sight. What’s important is that I read them at some point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On February 8th, our friends in upstate New York celebrated the first birthday of their son. On February 8th, our friends who are Bean’s Emergency Backup Parents (guardians), welcomed their niece into the world (in Florida). On February 10th, another couple (long-time friends who live locally) welcomed their daughter. We met her tonight. She is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,34,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-motherhood","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13771,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/13771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}