{"id":542,"date":"2008-12-03T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T14:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2008-12-03T08:35:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T14:35:56","slug":"the-perfect-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/03\/the-perfect-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/birthdaypixie-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-546  aligncenter\" title=\"Our Birthday Pixie\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/birthdaypixie-1-667x1064.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today the little red-head (who refers to herself almost exclusively as &#8220;a type of pixie&#8221;) turns 7. Somehow 7 just seems so much older than 6. 6 is well, one step away from 5, and hey, <a title=\"he IS the baby!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=187\" target=\"_blank\">my baby <\/a>is 5, so that can&#8217;t be old, right? (don&#8217;t make fun of me here people, it&#8217;s my child&#8217;s birthday!)<\/p>\n<p>For her birthday she had just a few small requests:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cinnamon_twists_482x193-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-543\" title=\"MMMM, refrigerated dough!\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cinnamon_twists_482x193-1-150x60.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a>Cinnamon rolls for breakfast &#8211; check (thank-you pillsbury because I didn&#8217;t have time to be the <a title=\"these are the BOMB BTW\" href=\"http:\/\/thepioneerwoman.com\/cooking\/2007\/06\/cinammon_rolls_\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pioneer Woman <\/a>on a school morning)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/pizza-page-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-544\" title=\"Nothing says Luau like a pepperoni pizza!\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/pizza-page-1-150x131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pizza for dinner &#8211; check <a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/pizza-page-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/huladolls-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-545\" title=\"Hula, hula, hula everyone!\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/huladolls-1-150x131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a\u00a0Luau &#8212; wait, what?? (insert record scratch here) Yes, she wants a luau. In December. Thankfully, when you&#8217;re 7, a luau can be paper tiki plates, a plastic hula doll on the cake, leis from the dress-up box\u00a0and tiki torches in the backyard. Let&#8217;s hear it for imagination!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Happy Birthday Emma Kate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the little red-head (who refers to herself almost exclusively as &#8220;a type of pixie&#8221;) turns 7. Somehow 7 just seems so much older than 6. 6 is well, one step away from 5, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}