{"id":16554,"date":"2022-12-15T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T22:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=16554"},"modified":"2022-12-15T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T04:04:48","slug":"aaron-is-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2022\/12\/aaron-is-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron is 2!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after the pandemic began in 2020, we learned I was pregnant. It culminated in having beautiful little Aaron in December. Which means, he just turned two years old!<\/p>\n<p>Aaron has been really into buses lately, so theme-wise it was nice to do one around buses for him. Unfortunately the buses that all the party goodies focus on are <em>school<\/em> buses, and while those are fine buses, they aren&#8217;t exactly what he shouts about when a public bus drives by. So I went a bit DIY with it, and printed off some drawn buses from AC Transit (Alameda County, CA), MUNI (San Francisco), and SEPTA (Philadelphia). Add in a Happy Birthday banner, some balloons, and a dozen little cutouts of an AC Transit bus that said &#8220;Aaron Shuttle&#8221; and we were all set!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122022\/aaron_2_birthday_banner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122022\/aaron_2_birthday_banner_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Oh, and a cake! Just like other decorations, the only cake was school bus themed, so we just went with AC Transit colors and a little Aaron Shuttle decoration.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122022\/aaron_2_ac_transit_cake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122022\/aaron_2_ac_transit_cake_sm.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122022\/aaron_2_ac_transit_shuttle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122022\/aaron_2_ac_transit_shuttle_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We still aren&#8217;t doing big social things, so it was a low-key little party with some close family friends who have cared for the boys in the past. He got a few little presents and was mostly just excited to see everyone and eat cake. Adam was a fan of the cake, too.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122022\/aaron_2_eat_cake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122022\/aaron_2_eat_cake_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It was also a delight the following Monday when the person who does social media for AC Transit saw the cake I shared and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rideact\/status\/1599859506820718592\">wished him a Happy Birthday<\/a> from the official AC Transit Twitter account.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122022\/aaron_2_ac_transit_wishes.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122022\/aaron_2_ac_transit_wishes_sm.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Bonus: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFBART\/status\/1599909248812879873\">BART did too<\/a>! And if there&#8217;s anything Aaron loves more than buses, it&#8217;s trains, particularly BART.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re in Philadelphia now for the holidays and are going to do a joint birthday party for both the boys (Adam was born at the beginning of January) while we&#8217;re in town visiting family and friends there. So we&#8217;ll have more cake soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after the pandemic began in 2020, we learned I was pregnant. It culminated in having beautiful little Aaron in December. Which means, he just turned two years old! Aaron has been really into buses lately, so theme-wise it was nice to do one around buses for him. Unfortunately the buses that all the party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25,41,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-food","category-kids","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16554"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16563,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions\/16563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}