{"id":2606,"date":"2011-06-18T13:38:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T21:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2011-09-26T08:23:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T16:23:58","slug":"transient-witticisms-henry-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2011\/06\/18\/transient-witticisms-henry-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Transient Witticisms (Henry edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wordBalloon_GreenMM.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Green M&amp;M\" width=\"150\" height=\"131\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2622\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not to be left out, G-Man&#8217;s contributed some fun bits lately:<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Language:\n<ul>\n<li>Henry has taken to answering yes-or-no questions (e.g. &#8220;Do you want a snack, yes or no?&#8221;) with &#8220;Yes or no!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Unfamiliar with shorts, Henry tugs desperately at his hems: &#8220;Close down&#8230; my pants!!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Henry greeted me rubbing his face: &#8220;Seagull&#8230; broke my eyeball.&#8221; And later: &#8220;I&#8217;m a goofy ball!&#8221; (meaning goofball).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Dad-O may you sit with you, Dad-O?&#8221; asks Henry. Quasi-palindromes from a tiny man.<\/li>\n<li>A toddler + the word &#8220;actually&#8221; = A parent-correcting bonanza. (&#8220;Watch out for the car, Henry,&#8221; I say. &#8220;*Jeep*, actually,&#8221; he replies.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Henry munches a brown M&amp;M, eyeing the bag&#8217;s wooden shelf: &#8220;How bout&#8230; orange one? Cut it down&#8230; from the tree!&#8221; \u00a0(We&#8217;ve consequently dubbed the shelf &#8220;The Tree.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>As I&#8217;m changing Henry&#8217;s diaper, he grabs my passport, shoves it between his toes, and says, &#8220;Readin&#8217; the Dad-O book!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Henry sees me shirtless post-workout &amp; runs screaming &#8220;No, no!&#8221; He later asks, &#8220;Dad-O go to Pilates?&#8221; Dang, boy, I can take a hint&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Apple might describe the little guy&#8217;s slap-footed form of locomotion as &#8220;I Pad, Shuffle.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to be left out, G-Man&#8217;s contributed some fun bits lately: Language: Henry has taken to answering yes-or-no questions (e.g. &#8220;Do you want a snack, yes or no?&#8221;) with &#8220;Yes or no!&#8221; Unfamiliar with shorts, Henry tugs desperately at his hems: &#8220;Close down&#8230; my pants!!&#8221; Henry greeted me rubbing his face: &#8220;Seagull&#8230; broke my eyeball.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babyslang","category-transient-witticisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}