We were so happy to celebrate Garnet\u2019s 10th birthday with him today! (Truly we were, just follow along with me.)<\/p>\n
We had cake (that Garnet made himself with Dad\u2019s help – chocolate dipped cake balls), presents (that included an r\/c helicopter that was promptly flown across the ravine containing the railroad and lost in the bush), and fun (a trip to the gaming store – that wasn\u2019t as much fun as it could have been as the focus drifted to his brother\u2019s taste in games, and a game of Farkle – that ran far too long with a grumpy toddler).<\/p>\n
Sounds kind of negative, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
It would have been, but this was Garnet\u2019s<\/em> birthday. He\u2019s a really roll with it kind of kid. It\u2019s not that he doesn\u2019t notice that stuff that makes the rest of us grumpy, it\u2019s just that he generally chooses<\/em> to be upbeat about it.<\/p>\n I really like that about him. I think it\u2019s one of his greatest character traits.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We were so happy to celebrate Garnet\u2019s 10th birthday with him today! (Truly we were, just follow along with me.) We had cake (that Garnet made himself with Dad\u2019s help – chocolate dipped cake balls), presents (that included an r\/c helicopter that was promptly flown across the ravine containing the railroad and lost in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,53,23,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3001,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/3001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}