{"id":176,"date":"2004-03-22T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T21:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/?p=176"},"modified":"2004-05-17T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T21:02:07","slug":"another-magical-day-at-christophers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/2004\/03\/another-magical-day-at-christophers\/","title":{"rendered":"Another magical day at Christopher&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01385.jpg\" title=\"Maddy and the handbag\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01385.jpg','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image left\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-DSC01385.jpg\" alt=\"Maddy and the handbag\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01392.jpg\" title=\"Max sitting up - 1st time\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01392.jpg','popup','width=480,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image right\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-DSC01392.jpg\" alt=\"Max sitting up - 1st time\" \/><\/a>After a rather peaceful weekend, with lunch at Dexters on Saturday with the Vi&ntilde;as, Massimo and I set off this morning to go to Christopher&#8217;s with Maz and Maddy. As you can see from the pictures both Maddy and Massimo have grown enormously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/archives\/2003_06.php\">since this picture<\/a> was taken!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFirst we went to the soft playroom where Maddy wondered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01400.jpg\" title=\"Max, Maz &#038; Maddy on the swing\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01400.jpg','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image left\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-DSC01400.jpg\" alt=\"Max, Maz &#038; Maddy on the swing\" \/><\/a> around and in a room full of toys thought that the contents of Mummy&#8217;s handbag were best and Massimo did some physio with the occupational therapist Anne. In a short while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01403.jpg\" title=\"Five in the pool\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01403.jpg','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image right\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-DSC01403.jpg\" alt=\"Five in the pool\" \/><\/a>Massimo learnt (a) to be pulled up to sitting by his arms (b) to  lie on his front which he didn&#8217;t like much but put up with (c) to lie all the way over on his bad side and last but by no means least (d) to sit up successfully on his own for more than 2 seconds! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01410.jpg\" title=\"Max in the pool\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01410.jpg','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image left\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-DSC01410.jpg\" alt=\"Max in the pool\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we went for a quick go on the swing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01402.jpg\" title=\"Max in his sunglasses\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01402.jpg','popup','width=480,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image right\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-DSC01402.jpg\" alt=\"Max in his sunglasses\" \/><\/a>which Maddy didn&#8217;t like at all until her mum joined her. After lunch, a dip in the pool, accompanied by the lovely Marina, a paddle in the jacuzzi and then a bath.  Trachy change completed and back in clothes we had a brief moment in the sensory <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01390.jpg\" title=\"Maddy in her sunglasses\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/DSC01390.jpg','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image left\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-DSC01390.jpg\" alt=\"Maddy in her sunglasses\" \/><\/a> room before packing up and coming home. Unfortunately the camera gave up on us whilst we were in the pool so no more pictures could be taken, but we did think they both looked <i>cool<\/i> in their sunglasses! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a rather peaceful weekend, with lunch at Dexters on Saturday with the Vi&ntilde;as, Massimo and I set off this morning to go to Christopher&#8217;s with Maz and Maddy. As you can see from the pictures both Maddy and Massimo have grown enormously since this picture was taken!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}