{"id":5058,"date":"2010-09-13T07:41:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T07:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/09\/13\/shes-a-big-girl-now\/"},"modified":"2010-09-13T07:41:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T07:41:23","slug":"shes-a-big-girl-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/09\/13\/shes-a-big-girl-now\/","title":{"rendered":"She’s a Big Girl Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

SteelyKid returns today from her weekend at Grandma and Grandpa’s, and there’s going to be a surprise waiting for her:<\/p>\n

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She hadn’t exactly outgrown her crib yet, but she was getting kind of big for it, so we decided to move her to a big girl bed. It’s a “captain’s bed” with drawers underneath the mattress, bought from the local unfinished furniture place (and finished by them, because we’re not that fond of the smell of varnish). A closer look at the bedspread Kate bought to go with it:<\/p>\n

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Before you say “Why’d you buy her a bedspread from the boys section?” remember two things: 1) Kate and I both hate the frilly pink Disney-princess crap that dominates the girls section in most stores, and 2) SteelyKid loves to talk about modes of transportation. “Truck! Vrooom vrooom!” was one of her earlier noun phrases. She’ll absolutely love the cars-and-trucks theme of this– it may actually prove an impediment to getting her to sleep, as she’ll want to talk about all the cool things on her bedspread.<\/p>\n

We’re hoping that the change of venue will help move her toward a lower-maintenance bedtime routine, but we’ll see how that goes. Whether that pans out or not, it’s a big change for SteelyKid this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SteelyKid returns today from her weekend at Grandma and Grandpa’s, and there’s going to be a surprise waiting for her: She hadn’t exactly outgrown her crib yet, but she was getting kind of big for it, so we decided to move her to a big girl bed. It’s a “captain’s bed” with drawers underneath the… Continue reading She’s a Big Girl Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}