{"id":282,"date":"2006-12-23T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/?p=282"},"modified":"2006-12-24T23:59:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T22:59:09","slug":"merry-christmas-to-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/2006\/12\/merry-christmas-to-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas to everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB170022.jpg\" title=\"Max and Luca in car\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB170022.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=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-PB170022.jpg\" alt=\"Max and Luca in car\" \/><\/a>Very briefly: we are back in Balham having lived in Norbury for four and a half months. It is great to be home although things are not finished yet.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB230022.jpg\" title=\"Luca and Marco on the sofa\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB230022.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=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-PB230022.jpg\" alt=\"Luca and Marco on the sofa\" \/><\/a> Max&#8217;s walking is so good he is practically running. We have had issues with rather frequent diarrhoea, which will hopefully be sorted by changing Max&#8217;s milk. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB230021.jpg\" title=\"The three boys\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB230021.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=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-PB230021.jpg\" alt=\"The three boys\" \/><\/a>Luca is now two and talking practically non-stop. He thoroughly enjoyed opening presents on his birthday and is looking forward to opening the presents at Christmas. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB230025.jpg\" title=\"The boys on their trikes\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB230025.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=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-PB230025.jpg\" alt=\"The boys on their trikes\" \/><\/a>Marco is still huge. He is now four months old but looks more like a six month baby. We have recently started him on some solids.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB230059.jpg\" title=\"Luca\\'s 2nd birthday\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB230059.jpg','popup','width=853,height=639,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=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-PB230059.jpg\" alt=\"Luca\\'s 2nd birthday\" \/><\/a> J and I have been very stressed with the move back and the total un-liveability of the house when we got here at the end of last month. J has been very busy with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB170028.jpg\" title=\"Marco\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB170028.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=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-PB170028.jpg\" alt=\"Marco\" \/><\/a> something I can&#8217;t share with you until the end of January. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB170037.jpg\" title=\"The gorgeous toad\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/PB170037.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=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-content\/thumb-PB170037.jpg\" alt=\"The gorgeous toad\" \/><\/a> All in all things are settling down and we are looking forward to a quiet Christmas at home with our three boys, 2 dogs and my brother. As the only girl (of any species), I feel ever so slightly outnumbered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very briefly: we are back in Balham having lived in Norbury for four and a half months. It is great to be home although things are not finished yet. Max&#8217;s walking is so good he is practically running. We have had issues with rather frequent diarrhoea, which will hopefully be sorted by changing Max&#8217;s milk. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/2006\/12\/merry-christmas-to-everyone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merry Christmas to everyone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hopemason.net\/massimo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}