{"id":2821,"date":"2006-10-16T04:50:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T11:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/16\/monday-baby-blogging-maddoxs-first-birthday\/"},"modified":"2006-10-16T04:50:11","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T11:50:11","slug":"monday-baby-blogging-maddoxs-first-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"Monday Baby Blogging: Maddox&#039;s First Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2813\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/maddox_1st_bday_002.jpg\" alt=\"maddox_1st_bday_002.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was Maddox&#8217;s first birthday. And also Kim&#8217;s (aka Mommy&#8217;s) birthday (but not her first). (Today, incidentally, is my nephew Silas&#8217; birthday).<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, it was party time! Lots more pics below the fold.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2814\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/maddox_1st_bday_017.jpg\" alt=\"maddox_1st_bday_017.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gotta love the hat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2815\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/maddox_1st_bday_053.jpg\" alt=\"maddox_1st_bday_053.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sydney was quite cheerful, even though it wasn&#8217;t her birthday. Cake is cake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2816\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/maddox_1st_bday_057.jpg\" alt=\"maddox_1st_bday_057.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner before all these photos were taken, and the family at the next table had a small infant (I&#8217;d guess 6 months old). Sydney kept on waving and making faces at the infant, trying to get it to smile. The cuteness element was notable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2817\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/maddox_1st_bday_076.jpg\" alt=\"maddox_1st_bday_076.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh <em>yeah<\/em>. This is what being a birthday girl is all about.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2818\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/maddox_1st_bday_096.jpg\" alt=\"maddox_1st_bday_096.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cake-splattered clothes removed, it&#8217;s time for the <em>other <\/em>important business of the day. Sydney feels no shame at all about bogarting her little sister&#8217;s presents.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2819\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/maddox_1st_bday_117.jpg\" alt=\"maddox_1st_bday_117.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of many reasons it&#8217;s fun to hang out with small children: they&#8217;re still impressed by juggling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2820\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/maddox_1st_bday_124.jpg\" alt=\"maddox_1st_bday_124.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love this photo Charles took &#8211; it really looks like Maddox is doing a really difficult juggle with those balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Maddox&#8217;s first birthday. And also Kim&#8217;s (aka Mommy&#8217;s) birthday (but not her first). (Today, incidentally, is my nephew Silas&#8217; birthday). Anyhow, it was party time! Lots more pics below the fold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-kid-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}