{"id":375,"date":"2008-01-16T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/01\/gettin-big-fast.html"},"modified":"2008-01-16T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T20:23:00","slug":"gettin-big-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/01\/gettin-big-fast.html","title":{"rendered":"Gettin&#8217; Big Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In all seriousness, my little boy is showing some big boy interests. Doodles is currently obsessed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CXCT\/jennyspage-20\"><i>Star Wars<\/i><\/a>. He comes home from school with pictures that he&#8217;s asked his teacher&#8217;s to label, which he calls his &#8220;movies&#8221;: &#8220;Luke Skywalker and light saver,&#8221; &#8220;Star Wars reflections in outer space,&#8221; &#8220;Someone from Star Wars caught one of the laser blades,&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s the end, Star Wars laser blade movie.&#8221; At our neighbors house, he ogles the Star Wars pop-up book. He can tell you all about Anakin, who turns into Darth Vader. Thing is, he&#8217;s never seen the movie. And he won&#8217;t. Not for, oh, about a zillion years. You think I&#8217;m going to let the kid who is frightened of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickjr.co.uk\/shows\/dora\/swiper.aspx\">Swiper<\/a> on <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dora_the_Explorer\">Dora<\/a><\/i> watch <i>Star Wars<\/i>? The kid who walked out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000VBJEEG\/jennyspage-20\"><i>Ratatouille<\/i><\/a> because it was too scary? Who refuses to go upstairs alone at night to get his pajamas? Oh, how he begs for the movie, but I stand firm. But it just seems so odd for my little guy to be blathering about Darth Maul and &#8220;light savers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But his interests really are changing. He wants to be read chapter books. He&#8217;s really trying to expand his food repertoire (with a bit of success, I should add!). He&#8217;s reporting with pride his job each week at school (this week he&#8217;s attendance taker). And today we got his kindergarten registration forms. I teased him about it: &#8220;You&#8217;re not old enough for kindergarten!&#8221; I said. He agreed. &#8220;I know. I&#8217;m four and a quarter. But soon I&#8217;ll be four and a half and after four and a half is four and three quarters and then is five and five is old enough and then I&#8217;ll go to kindergarten!&#8221; (Yet he can&#8217;t read a digital clock?)<\/p>\n<p>My little baby. Not so much. How is this happening?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all seriousness, my little boy is showing some big boy interests. Doodles is currently obsessed with Star Wars. He comes home from school with pictures that he&#8217;s asked his teacher&#8217;s to label, which he calls his &#8220;movies&#8221;: &#8220;Luke Skywalker and light saver,&#8221; &#8220;Star Wars reflections in outer space,&#8221; &#8220;Someone from Star Wars caught one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}