{"id":5557,"date":"2012-02-10T09:46:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T15:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2012-02-10T09:46:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T15:46:58","slug":"stop-growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=5557","title":{"rendered":"stop growing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/Cruise-2002-Ryan\/IMG_2827.sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>I hate it that my kids are all growing up.  Hate it!  Why can&#8217;t they just stay little and adorable?  Maybe I should not ever again look at old pictures of them when they were little. It makes me sad to think that I don&#8217;t get to experience that fun babylicious time again.  I would pick up stranger&#8217;s babies and offer to take care of them, but for some reason people frown on that kind of behavior.  Ryan actually gets to get his baby fix in the nursery.  Not only does he get to play, sing, and have snacks with the 18 month to 3 year old set, he gets to hold the younger babies that people bring in to drop off for just a little while.   The other day, he held one little guy for about an hour while he was sleeping.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/Johns-2nd-birthday\/IMG_8060.sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How do parents come to terms with the fact that they will not get to snuggle any cute little newborns anymore?  I love my kids, and I love the stage they are in right now, but I miss when they were little.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/Cruise-2002-Ryan\/IMG_2663.sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have a keypad that works as a digital frame, and it picks a random bunch of pictures and displays them for the day. <img src=\"http:\/\/\" alt=\"\" \/> When it&#8217;s showing especially cute pictures of the kids, it makes my ovaries hurt.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/Johns-2nd-birthday\/IMG_8057.sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n I saw one super cute picture from when they were little, and I said to Ryan, &#8220;I know why we have so many kids&#8211;cause they were SO DARN CUTE when they were little.  They tricked us into having 5 of them!&#8221;<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/Cruise-2002-Ryan\/IMG_2803.sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it that my kids are all growing up. Hate it! Why can&#8217;t they just stay little and adorable? Maybe I should not ever again look at old pictures of them when they were little. It makes me sad to think that I don&#8217;t get to experience that fun babylicious time again. I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5788,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions\/5788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}