{"id":2285,"date":"2019-07-31T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2019-07-31T19:12:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T19:12:02","slug":"two-years-with-ethan-and-anna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/?p=2285","title":{"rendered":"Two Years with Ethan and Anna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blogImages\"><div id=\"attachment_2286\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2286\" src=\"http:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190614_093111066_HDR-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190614_093111066_HDR-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190614_093111066_HDR-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethan in Victoria&#8217;s Chinatown, posing by the dragon.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_2287\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2287\" src=\"http:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190614_093128335-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190614_093128335-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_20190614_093128335-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna, being like her big brother.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Two years ago today we met Ethan and Anna for the first time. Simultaneously it seems like there is no way that two years have passed, and also that they have been ours forever! It has not been an easy two years, but I love that our family now feels like a family &#8211; they are comfortable and happy and know that they are loved. We still have challenges, but the blessings far outweigh them.<\/p>\n<p>Ethan, you are creative, sporty, kind, fun, super smart, and up for anything!<\/p>\n<p>Anna, you are loving, dramatic, joy-filled, spunky, and artistic!<\/p>\n<p>You both have my heart, and I am forever grateful to be your forever mom.<\/p>\n<p>(PS These were taken in Chinatown in Victoria &#8211; since the boys&#8217; Chinese names both mean &#8220;dragon,&#8221; everyone had to pose with the dragon!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago today we met Ethan and Anna for the first time. Simultaneously it seems like there is no way that two years have passed, and also that they have been ours forever! It has not been an easy two years, but I love that our family now feels like a family &#8211; they [&hellip;]<\/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-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}