{"id":3673,"date":"2005-04-04T21:17:13","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T03:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2020-03-19T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T18:04:43","slug":"i-hate-to-say-it-stryder-but-i-told-you-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=3673","title":{"rendered":"I Hate to Say it Stryder, But I Told You So&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure by now you have all read about how Stryder has become a devoted <em>La Ni\u00f1a<\/em> follower. Part of this devotion is he now feels the constant need to groom her every opportunity he gets.<\/p>\n<p>Stryder especially loves to clean the baby&#8217;s hands and feet. He starts by sneaking over to where she is &#8212; sometimes an inch at a time (imagine him whistling and looking around the room as he is doing this). Then he will look at either dP or I to see if we will reprimand him for getting too close to the baby. If we aren&#8217;t saying &#8220;no!&#8221; he will quickly start with the feet and move his way upwards to her hands, arms, and armpits.<\/p>\n<p>Then he makes an &#8220;attempt&#8221; to clean her face.<\/p>\n<p>I say attempt because he has been told repeatedly: don&#8217;t lick the baby&#8217;s face and when he tries he gets a stern &#8220;no&#8221; and is shooed away. Nonetheless, he will still try because he is obsessed with cleaning the baby.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday he was doing his usual cleaning ritual starting with the hands and moving his way up. When it came time for him to &#8220;attempt&#8221; to clean the face he looked at me and I gave him the &#8220;if you try I will yell at you&#8221; look.<\/p>\n<p>But, he insisted on taking a crack at it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Just as he made a quick dart at the baby&#8217;s face and just as his tongue popped out of his mouth, <em>La Ni\u00f1a<\/em> opened her mouth and did a projectile curdled milk spit up all over his tongue, his nose and right into his partially opened mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Not expecting this he jumped back, made some sort of funny gagging noise, and then hid under the coffee table where he tried to figure out what had just happened.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure in his mind he was thinking: &#8220;The baby has spoken. No more face licking.&#8221; And, he actually listened for once because for a couple of days after this he didn&#8217;t attempt to clean her face. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI&#8217;m sure by now you have all read about how Stryder has&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=3673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;I Hate to Say it Stryder, But I Told You So&#8230;&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,475,16],"tags":[406,607],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta","category-calgary","category-canada","tag-memorable-moments","tag-stryder-kima","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85047,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/85047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}