{"id":7203,"date":"2018-08-13T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.njphillipsfamily.com\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:29:40","slug":"only-child-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/?p=7203","title":{"rendered":"Only Child-ish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew spent the weekend with CoCo and Papa leaving Teddy all alone with his tired (more on that later!) parents for the weekend. My observations:<\/p>\n<p>(1) He&#8217;s clearly the 2nd child who is used to the built-in entertainment of an older brother. The cardboard boxes were a poor consultation prize&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9694.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7200\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9694-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9694-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9694-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9696.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7201\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9696-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9696-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9696-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9697.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7202\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9697-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9697-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9697-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9698.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7204\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9698-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9698-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9698-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(2) He&#8217;s smart! Teddy seized the opportunity to play with Andrew&#8217;s favorite Buzz Lightyear, sit in his chair, drive the jeep, watch his trains and even snuggle with Mommy all by himself. Shh! Don&#8217;t tell Andrew!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9703.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7205\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9703-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9703-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9703-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7206\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9700-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9700-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9700-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9700-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9707.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7207\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9707-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9707-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9707-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9707-768x1022.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9708.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7208\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9708-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9708-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9708-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9708-768x1022.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7209\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9710-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9710-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9710-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9710-768x1022.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9709.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7210\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9709-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9709-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9709-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9709-768x1022.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(3) Andy and I are way more relaxed with #2 than #1. On a few occasions we found him upstairs playing with his toys. I want to say that we knew where he was the whole time but that would be a lie&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Big brother returns tonight and I&#8217;m sure the decibels will crank up when they&#8217;re reunited!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew spent the weekend with CoCo and Papa leaving Teddy all alone with his tired (more on that later!) parents for the weekend. My observations: (1) He&#8217;s clearly the 2nd child who is used to the built-in entertainment of an older brother. The cardboard boxes were a poor consultation prize&#8230; (2) He&#8217;s smart! Teddy seized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-kid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7211,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions\/7211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}