{"id":2996,"date":"2011-09-22T20:17:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T04:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2011-09-22T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T05:46:07","slug":"to-the-manner-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2011\/09\/22\/to-the-manner-born\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Manner Born"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>At lunch yesterday my friend Iv\u00e1n, father of a 1-year-old girl, remarked on how she’s uncannily similar to him in her mannerisms–things she hasn’t been taught & almost couldn’t have observed. When his mom sees her granddaughter pout or make certain faces, Iv\u00e1n says, she says “It’s you!!”<\/p>\n

Our guys can be similar. I’ll sometimes catch Henry chewing on his knuckles or forearm. “I’m not<\/em> eating my arm!” he’ll declare, but guess what? It’s just like my weird habit (which I caught myself doing while writing this post!)–and my dad’s for that matter.<\/p>\n

Finny, meanwhile, has taken a keen interest in his often banged-up feet. “Check out my blood toes!” he’ll crow. Taking off his Crocs he declares, “A flock of blood toes is on the loose!” Offered some itch-busting eczema lotion, he shakes his head: “I’ll just play with my blood toes.” Let’s just say, the old man can relate. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

When I asked Margot if she thought the boys mirrored any of her mannerisms, she had to think about it for a minute. “Oh yeah,” she said, “Finny’s definitely inherited the ‘I’m ready to go home now’ declaration from me.” (A rather well-known story about 2-year-old Margot concerns her wandering out into the middle of a grown-up Christmas party with her mom’s purse, finding her mom, and very definitively indicating she was ready to leave. NOW<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, and there’s the stubbornness that both boys evince pretty frequently. We have no<\/strong> idea where they get that…!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At lunch yesterday my friend Iv\u00e1n, father of a 1-year-old girl, remarked on how she’s uncannily similar to him in her mannerisms–things she hasn’t been taught & almost couldn’t have observed. When his mom sees her granddaughter pout or make certain faces, Iv\u00e1n says, she says “It’s you!!” Our guys can be similar. I’ll sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babyslang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","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=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}