{"id":11057,"date":"2016-09-26T20:02:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T01:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2016-09-26T20:02:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T01:02:13","slug":"new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=11057","title":{"rendered":"New Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re starting to figure out what our new normal is. \u00a0It&#8217;s taking Maddie a while to get used to having a baby around. \u00a0She&#8217;s genuinely concerned when he starts crying (and she&#8217;s already picked up on saying &#8220;baby&#8221; although it sounds more like &#8220;ba-ba&#8221;). \u00a0She&#8217;s also getting better at being gentle to him, although that&#8217;s going to be a long process.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe and Josiah are finally settling back into their old selves. \u00a0Having me gone for so many days really threw them off, so it&#8217;s taken a few days to readjust. \u00a0We&#8217;re just about there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had on and off days of sleeping great at night. \u00a0It&#8217;s about 50\/50 right now. \u00a0He&#8217;ll have a really excellent night and then a bad night. \u00a0Although I should say that overall he&#8217;s meshing into a routine quite well. \u00a0For the most part he&#8217;s on a 2.5 &#8211; 3 hour cycle, which is great. \u00a0And, other than being tired, I&#8217;m recovering splendidly well. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t had to take any medicine since Tuesday&#8211;except one day when I had to take Advil for a splitting headache because I fell asleep in the chair with my neck all weird&#8230;). \u00a0I still have a dull throb of pain, but nothing that&#8217;s not manageable. \u00a0And I decided on Tuesday that it would be smarter for me to stop taking medicine to keep that dull throb so I am aware that I need to take it easy. \u00a0I figured if I feel totally normal I might overdo it. \u00a0Oh, and as a side note, I&#8217;ll have you all know that Tim still moved the lawn today&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re starting to figure out what our new normal is. \u00a0It&#8217;s taking Maddie a while to get used to having a baby around. \u00a0She&#8217;s genuinely concerned when he starts crying (and she&#8217;s already picked up on saying &#8220;baby&#8221; although it sounds more like &#8220;ba-ba&#8221;). \u00a0She&#8217;s also getting better at being gentle to him, although that&#8217;s [&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":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11059,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions\/11059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}