{"id":621,"date":"2014-02-05T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T03:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2014-02-05T22:54:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T03:54:10","slug":"5-on-the-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/5-on-the-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"5 on the 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Callie is officially a 5-year-old! And she\u2019s certainly proud of it. She talks constantly about all the big-girl things in her life — soon she\u2019ll get a special big-girl bed; we take her to the potty like a big girl; and she\u2019ll start kindergarten this fall.<\/p>\n

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Callie opening her birthday presents.<\/p><\/div>\n

Last year on Callie\u2019s birthday, she was starting to get significantly ill. We\u2019re so grateful that we\u2019ve had another year with her. But in all honesty, there is always a sadness we feel, particularly during celebrations.<\/p>\n

Callie asked for a bicycle this year, thinking she could ride it. Then she asked for crutches, thinking they would help her walk. Our oldest son Isaac, who\u2019s 12, asked us to look on the Internet to see when a cure is coming for SMA.<\/p>\n

But oddly enough, this disease has also brought us joy. The joy of listening to Callie interact with her nurses who come to care for her at night. The joy of seeing her 3 brothers naturally adapt whatever game they\u2019re playing to accommodate her. These are things we never would\u2019ve known without SMA.<\/p>\n

In Callie\u2019s 5 years, we\u2019ve learned that sadness and joy can both exist at the same time. And once again, we\u2019re grateful for this time.<\/p>\n

Happy Birthday Callie-girl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today Callie is officially a 5-year-old! And she\u2019s certainly proud of it. She talks constantly about all the big-girl things in her life — soon she\u2019ll get a special big-girl bed; we take her to the potty like a big girl; and she\u2019ll start kindergarten this fall. Last year on Callie\u2019s birthday, she was starting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calliegolden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}