{"id":411,"date":"2008-03-28T18:18:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveenbachwani.wordpress.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2008-03-28T18:18:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:00:03","slug":"simply-irresistible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/2008\/03\/simply-irresistible\/","title":{"rendered":"Simply Irresistible!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five months have just gone by in a flash&#8230;\u00a0 It seems like only yesterday when little Tiger was born.\u00a0 But, in these past months, he&#8217;s graduated from being a scrawny newborn to a healthy and happy baby, all of <em>eight<\/em> kilos, and getting heavier by the day!<\/p>\n<p>Since this is a second child in the family, comparisons are, of course,\u00a0inevitable.\u00a0 Even though the mrs. and I had both agreed that we would not put undue pressure on either child by comparing it with the other one, harmless comparisons in the third person continue to be a part of our conversations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s already taller than Pumpkin, and fairer too.\u00a0 The clothes she wore when she was six months&#8217; plus are already getting smaller for him!\u00a0 Pumpkin used to make potty quite frequently, but Tiger has mastered the art of making that <em>mega <\/em>potty (yes, it&#8217;s the only way to describe it!).\u00a0 She did not blow any bubbles like he does&#8230; he blows them all day!\u00a0 See how soft his skin is?\u00a0 Her&#8217;s was also as soft, wasn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 (In fact, some of our wellwishers, on learning about my <a href=\"http:\/\/papa.naveen.naveen.naveen.naveen.bachwani.com\/dad\/\">new book<\/a>, even remarked that I should write another one for Tiger!)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it comes down to one thing &#8211; Isn&#8217;t he so CUTE?<\/p>\n<p>Tiger\u00a0is a really good looking kid, I must confess.\u00a0 And, he has a beautiful smile to go with it.\u00a0 And, it does not hurt that he is so generous with his smiles.<\/p>\n<p>When I think of all the times that he just spots me in his vicinity and breaks into a smile, or when he cranes his little neck to follow my movement in the room, I can&#8217;t help but think &#8211; <em>It&#8217;s all worth it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Babies are simply irresistible, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five months have just gone by in a flash&#8230;\u00a0 It seems like only yesterday when little Tiger was born.\u00a0 But, in these past months, he&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenthood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}