{"id":1703,"date":"2011-03-27T13:44:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2011-03-27T13:44:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:44:36","slug":"on-this-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":"On This Day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>On this day, Easter Morning, 2005&#8230; 9:15 a.m. came a little gift&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Joshua Daniel Sukumaran<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_9809.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1705\" title=\"DSC_9809\" src=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_9809-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_9809-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_9809-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He took forever to make his way out of my body. \u00a012 hours&#8230; me contracting every 5 minutes, Sanj snoring in a chair beside me, believing I had it under control&#8230; finally a touch of Pitocin convinced him it was time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was not impressed with him&#8230; from the start. \u00a0I was mad. \u00a0What took him so long to come out? \u00a0Thus began our crazy love story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0152.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1706\" title=\"DSC_0152\" src=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0152-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0152-1024x685.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0152-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0152.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I love him and yet needed a break&#8230; he loved me and as I &#8220;pushed&#8221; him away&#8230; he clung to me all the more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My sweet Josh&#8230; aw, but those aren&#8217;t just the adjectives that I can use&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">loving, persistent, quirky, needy, touchy, hilarious, stylish, weird, gregarious, shy, loud, lazy, determined, loved, cherished, annoying, yummy, sweetness, big, confident, beautiful boy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">God knew I would likely keep trying for a girl&#8230; so He gave me <em>instant<\/em> birth control in Josh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0413.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1707\" title=\"DSC_0413\" src=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"912\" srcset=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0413.jpg 606w, http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0413-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our family is totally taken with this little being. \u00a0He has learned the art of wrapping each and every one of his family member around his fingers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I could lay beside him forever as his love just oozes out of his body onto me. \u00a0He lets you know that he needs you. \u00a0He loves very hard. \u00a0He fights very hard. \u00a0He laughs very loud. \u00a0He has the best giggle ever. \u00a0He is very naughty. \u00a0He attracts trouble.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My Josh is just delicious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was 6 years ago today that this little boy rocked my world. \u00a0He turned it upside down. \u00a0It has never been right since that day and yet&#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t change it for anything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0962.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1708\" title=\"DSC_0962\" src=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0962-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0962-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0962-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0962.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Dearest Joshua,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>You are the best! \u00a0I am so glad that Jesus gave you to me. \u00a0(God, You and I will fight this one out later&#8230;) \u00a0I love you so much. \u00a0I love watching you grow each day&#8230; and my love for you grows&#8230; as you fill more and more of your place in my heart. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Happy Birthday, my sweet Joshua.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>You are one of a kind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>You are a special gift I get every day&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I love you more than you can imagine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Happy 6th Birthday!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>xoxo<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, Easter Morning, 2005&#8230; 9:15 a.m. came a little gift&#8230; Joshua Daniel Sukumaran He took forever to make his way out of my body. \u00a012 hours&#8230; me contracting every 5 minutes, Sanj snoring in a chair beside me, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=1703\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}