{"id":18,"date":"2007-03-13T09:28:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T14:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2007\/03\/13\/a-weekend-with-ben\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T14:28:52","slug":"a-weekend-with-ben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2007\/03\/13\/a-weekend-with-ben\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend With Ben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The same weekend that Cherise did her show-stealing acrobatic act, Ben came to visit us overnight. What a love! Of course he has to be watched constantly, even after the house has been cleared of ALL child maiming accessories. We have installed child-proofing latches to the most harmful cupboard and liberal amounts of duct tape to the others. Recently we&#8217;ve changed to a new sort of lock, ones that Wendy and Zach use and brought with them the last time they visited. Things should be a lot easier now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/BenWeb.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ben was constantly playing with a stuffed lion we bought a month or so ago. We were teaching him what a lion says. By the end of his stay we would say, &#8220;What does the lion say, Ben?&#8221; His response, &#8220;Rowwwwrrrrrrr!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rowwwwrrrrrrr!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/BenLionWeb.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also, Karen would sit him on her lap and sing the Eensy Weensy Spider to him. Yes, Jess and Brian, the Eensy Weensy Spider! None of that Itsy Bitsy nonsense. You can see the progress in the pictures below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grandma leads the way\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/KarenEensyWeb.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben catches on\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/BenEensyWeb.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same weekend that Cherise did her show-stealing acrobatic act, Ben came to visit us overnight. What a love! Of course he has to be watched constantly, even after the house has been cleared of ALL child maiming accessories. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2007\/03\/13\/a-weekend-with-ben\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}