{"id":17773,"date":"2025-02-07T11:14:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T19:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=17773"},"modified":"2025-02-07T11:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T19:14:55","slug":"a-very-lego-6th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2025\/02\/a-very-lego-6th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"A very Lego 6th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 6th Adam turned six years old. He&#8217;s blossomed into a hilarious, fun kid and I&#8217;m so proud of his thoughtfulness and kindness. Plus, he&#8217;s always been interested in figuring things out, so this past year that&#8217;s morphed into doing Lego kits with me, and one of his birthday requests was going to the Lego store wall and building something, so that&#8217;s what we did!<\/p>\n<p>We got back home from Philadelphia a couple days before his birthday, and his birthday landed on a Monday, so we piled on to BART after work and went to the Stoneridge Mall to make his Lego dreams come true.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/022025\/adam_bday_build-a-bear.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/022025\/adam_bday_build-a-bear_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And pick up his birthday Build-a-Bear!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/022025\/adam_bday_lego_wall.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/022025\/adam_bday_lego_wall_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We even got some Lego-shaped gummies before going over to California Pizza Kitchen for dinner.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/022025\/adam_bday_lego_gummies.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/022025\/adam_bday_lego_gummies_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>His birthday party was on the following Saturday and we had his former au pairs over to visit and do cake!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/022025\/adam_bday_cake_6th.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/022025\/adam_bday_cake_6th_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And gifts!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/022025\/adam_bday_guests.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/022025\/adam_bday_guests_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We did a little gift coordination too, with a big red Lego box joining our home just in time for me to pull out a box of vehicle-related free build Lego blocks. Truly, the free-build Lego sets have ended up being for both the boys, and Aaron was thrilled to start playing with them.<\/p>\n<p>Happy 6th Birthday Adam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 6th Adam turned six years old. He&#8217;s blossomed into a hilarious, fun kid and I&#8217;m so proud of his thoughtfulness and kindness. Plus, he&#8217;s always been interested in figuring things out, so this past year that&#8217;s morphed into doing Lego kits with me, and one of his birthday requests was going to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,41,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-kids","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773","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=17773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17774,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773\/revisions\/17774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}