{"id":74,"date":"2007-08-12T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T18:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2007-08-12T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T18:13:23","slug":"nana-and-poppa-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Nana and Poppa visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given that it’s 2007, Mona and I have decided to embrace the latest internet fad and post our first blog entry (with a little help from Stuart).<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1499\"<\/a>We have had a grand time on a West Coast tour, starting with a visit to young Mona in Seattle for a week.\u00a0 After a few days in town and visiting Mona’s office at Chateau Ste. Michelle<\/a>, we drove up the Olympic Highway through the mountains to the East side of the Olympics for some gorgeous views.\u00a0 We had a lovely overnight visit to a town called Mazama and stayed in cozy little cabin at the Freestone Inn<\/a>.\u00a0 Here’s a picture from our Chateau visit:<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_1624\"<\/a>Next we headed down to the Bay Area for six days with Stu, Katherine and their little girl Claire.\u00a0 We’ve spent most of our time watching Claire\u00a0eat, sleep, play, cry (not much), and generally amuse us all.\u00a0 We’ve also enjoyed many picnics in the backyard and had a fun dinner out Saturday at the local P.F. Chang’s<\/a>.\u00a0 Claire seems to change every day and we’re anxiously awaiting the latest weight statistics to see just how much she gained during our visit (it seems like a lot!).<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1621\"<\/a>One interesting thing we learned was a set of handy tips for soothing a baby called the “Five S’s” from a book called The Happiest Baby on the Block<\/a>: Swaddling, Side, Shhh, Swinging, and Sucking. I didn’t believe it at first but a friend of Katherine’s and Stu’s lent them a copy of video that shows how to do it, and both on the video and with Claire these really work! If you have small children, definitely give them a try.<\/p>\n

We’re heading back home this afternoon, but wanted to share our trip with you.\u00a0 We’ve got lots more pictures — click here<\/a> or on the picture below for a slideshow.<\/p>\n

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Given that it’s 2007, Mona and I have decided to embrace the latest internet fad and post our first blog entry (with a little help from Stuart). We have had a grand time on a West Coast tour, starting with a visit to young Mona in Seattle for a week.\u00a0 After a few days in … Continue reading Nana and Poppa visit<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,12,22,24],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aunt-mona","tag-claire","tag-nana","tag-poppa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eQE-1c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}