{"id":24,"date":"2005-05-13T14:34:34","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T14:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2005\/05\/13\/too-cute-for-words\/"},"modified":"2005-05-13T14:34:34","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T14:34:34","slug":"too-cute-for-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2005\/05\/13\/too-cute-for-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Cute for Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Just a short one today. I&#8217;m working feverishly on a Big Upgrade to the site]<\/p>\n<p><\/em>We&#8217;ve been working on potty training C since December. For those without kids, yes, it can take that long. C has no problem using the potty, his problem is that he doesn&#8217;t recognize those internal rumblings which tell the rest of us to run to the bathroom. To him, they&#8217;re still just interesting gurgling feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, J was getting C changed and for some reason decided to let him use the guest bathroom to go potty. She left so that he could do his business and because N was demanding attention. After a few minutes, she asked me to make sure he was okay.<\/p>\n<p>So, I stuck my head around the door. <\/p>\n<p>C was completely naked on the toilet with his clothes sitting in a pile in front of him. He was also too far back on the toilet &#8211; his backside had sunk in so far that he was holding himself up with his elbows and knees. You&#8217;d think he&#8217;d be worried about that, but instead he was looking at a book held (upside down) in his hands and propped on those same knees.<\/p>\n<p>He noticed me when I chuckled. &quot;Hi Daddy. I&#8217;m reading a book!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>What could I do? I nodded seriously and closed the door to give him some privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Just a short one today. I&#8217;m working feverishly on a Big Upgrade to the site] We&#8217;ve been working on potty training C since December. For those without kids, yes, it can take that long. C has no problem using the potty, his problem is that he doesn&#8217;t recognize those internal rumblings which tell the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-c"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}