{"id":5172,"date":"2011-12-21T10:58:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T14:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2011-12-21T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T15:06:45","slug":"quick-like-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=5172","title":{"rendered":"Quick Like Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Livia,<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re our second child, so a lot of your stuff is second-hand. Even some of your songs are. For example, I borrowed &#8220;Who&#8217;s the Cutest Baby?&#8221; from Marshall and changed it to &#8220;Who&#8217;s the Sweetest Baby?&#8221; for you.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t want you to think that you never got anything of your own. I certainly sing you some Livia-only songs. The one that really stands out is &#8220;Fast Moving Baby.&#8221; I wrote that one day while you were playing in my office. You were so quick to get into things, I couldn&#8217;t take my eyes off you for a second or you&#8217;d find something dangerous on which to chew. I started to sing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>She&#8217;s a fast moving baby.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Look at that baby go!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She&#8217;s a fast moving baby.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Look at that baby go!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She can move so fast,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She can travel to the past.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She&#8217;s a fast moving baby.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She&#8217;s quick like lightning,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Fast like the rain.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If you catch her once,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She will just do it again.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cuz she&#8217;s a fast moving baby.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Look at that baby go!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She&#8217;s a fast moving baby.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Look at that baby go!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Look at that baby go!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Look at that baby go!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re much bigger now, but you&#8217;re still a fast mover and a quick thinker. I can barely keep up with you. This morning I left you in the dining room for a few minutes while I ran upstairs to get Marshall up. When I came back downstairs, I found you standing on the chair in the dining room, changing the settings on my laptop. You&#8217;re only 11 months old and already climbing on the furniture. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Look at that baby go!<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Mom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Livia, You&#8217;re our second child, so a lot of your stuff is second-hand. Even some of your songs are. For example, I borrowed &#8220;Who&#8217;s the Cutest Baby?&#8221; from Marshall and changed it to &#8220;Who&#8217;s the Sweetest Baby?&#8221; for you. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=5172\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[298,348,1],"tags":[422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}