{"id":57,"date":"2006-07-05T14:17:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T19:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/07\/05\/five-months\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T14:17:05","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T19:17:05","slug":"five-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/five-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie turned five months old this week.  Sometimes I can&#8217;t believe the time has gone by so fast, and sometimes it feels as if it&#8217;s been about eight years.  We took her to the doctor today.  Another clean bill of health.  She weighs an astounding <strong>17 pounds, 3 ounces<\/strong> and is a phenomenal <strong>25.5 inches<\/strong> long.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor&#8217;s biggest new achievement is that she sits up all on her own!  Observe:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/pics\/v\/eleanor\/month6\/IMG_2428.jpg.html\"><img src='https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/media\/elliesittingletters.thumbnail.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of new pictures, I have started the <a href=\"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/pics\/v\/eleanor\/month6\/\">Month 6 gallery<\/a>.  Some great shots in there already.  Please enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, we are packing up to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.ns.ca\/\">Nova<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nova_Scotia\">Scotia<\/a> for two weeks.  Thus, updates here may be a little spotty for a while.  But we should have plenty of great pics and video when we return!  Including some of Ellie with her <a href=\"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/pics\/v\/wedding\/wedding-photographer\/wedding-portraits1\/portraits10029.jpg.html\">Great-Grandma Sylvia<\/a> who has not met her yet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big trip and it&#8217;s taken a lot of preparation to get Ellie ready to go.  We&#8217;re a little anxious about the 8 &#8211; 9 hour drive tomorrow, but we&#8217;ll get through it somehow.  My parents managed to do it year after year for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie turned five months old this week. Sometimes I can&#8217;t believe the time has gone by so fast, and sometimes it feels as if it&#8217;s been about eight years. We took her to the doctor today. Another clean bill of health. She weighs an astounding 17 pounds, 3 ounces and is a phenomenal 25.5 inches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby","category-family","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}