{"id":1176,"date":"2013-07-29T08:23:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T12:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2020-09-03T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:44:28","slug":"im-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/29\/im-free\/","title":{"rendered":"“I’m Free!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today my middle munchkin is 3 (or “free” as she prefers) and I cannot wrap my head around it.\u00a0 Even though I now have Doodle, I still see Sugarplum as my little baby. \u00a0\u00a0Recently Sugarplum\u00a0had a major growth spurt and now looks more like a big kid and has had a sudden advancement in her speech and socialization so other than her size, there\u2019s really nothing baby about her anymore (though she\u2019s not much bigger than one, still wearing 12-18 month clothes!).<\/p>\n

Sugarplum\u00a0and I have always had a special mommy-baby relationship.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s because we spent so much time alone when she was in my tummy and when she was a baby and we spent that first year struggling through her screaming, sleeplessness and general hysteria.\u00a0 We had just moved to a foreign country, hubby was travelling a lot, I had no family close by and had not yet made any great friends.\u00a0 It was really just me and the girls and it felt like us against the world most of the time.\u00a0 I never had the support I wanted or needed even though my mommy instincts told me something was wrong so I just cuddled her close and gave her all my love and patience.<\/p>\n

Sugarplum\u00a0has luckily (mostly) grown out of her screaming hysterics and she is so much fun to be around now.\u00a0 She is a funny little girl who idolizes her big sister and adores her baby brother.\u00a0 She is definitely in an independent stage but I love watching her learn to do new things and to take care of herself.\u00a0 I also love how she still likes to cuddle up next to me on the couch after nap and how when I have to go to work she runs over to me and says \u201cMommy, huggle! Mommy, kisses!\u201d<\/p>\n

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I am so thankful to have one more full year with her where I can watch her grow and change and help her become who she is going to be.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard for me to see her as a big girl after all the struggles we went through when she was a baby but I\u2019m thankful that if she has to get bigger, at least she is becoming a child I like to be around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today my middle munchkin is 3 (or “free” as she prefers) and I cannot wrap my head around it.\u00a0 Even though I now have Doodle, I still see Sugarplum as my little baby. \u00a0\u00a0Recently Sugarplum\u00a0had a major growth spurt and now looks more like a big kid and has had a sudden advancement in her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631,9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday-posts","category-family-life","category-time-to-celebrate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10044,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/10044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}