What an adventurous day! Marie’s 3^rd^ birthday was today, as well as her birthday party. We had a painting party, with large sheets of paper set up in the backyard for the kids to paint on. (And washable paints!) We had 9 kids including cousins Elise and Natalie, friend Matthew, and all the neighborhood gang. Marie didn’t eat well, and didn’t take a nap–so the rest of the day was… emotional. She’s sleeping peacefully now, and she’s happy to be 3! She still has many presents to open tomorrow. We’re so proud of our big girl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What an adventurous day! Marie’s 3^rd^ birthday was today, as well as her birthday party. We had a painting party, with large sheets of paper set up in the backyard for the kids to paint on. (And washable paints!) We had 9 kids including cousins Elise and Natalie, friend Matthew, and all the neighborhood gang. … Continue reading Marie is Three!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hessekids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hessekids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hessekids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hessekids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hessekids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hessekids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hessekids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hessekids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hessekids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}