{"id":18143,"date":"2025-12-19T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=18143"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:38:47","slug":"aaron-flies-into-5-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2025\/12\/aaron-flies-into-5-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron flies into 5 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 2nd we flew home from our Thanksgiving trip to Philadelphia. The timing and pricing of the flight worked out best for us, but unfortunately it also landed on Aaron&#8217;s 5th birthday. We made the best of it though. Since I told him he could start playing video games when he turned five, we decided to give him a video game for his fifth birthday, a present that he could open and play on the flight.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122025\/aaron_birthday_airplane_video_game.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122025\/aaron_birthday_airplane_video_game_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We also picked up some cake at the airport that he could enjoy on the flight. When we boarded, wearing his new birthday t-shirt, he also got to enjoy a quick little tour of the cockpit. Plus, the change in time zone means he had a 27 hour birthday. Not bad!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122025\/aaron_birthday_airplane_cake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122025\/aaron_birthday_airplane_cake_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>His actual birthday party was held on Sunday when we were all back home. Guest-wise, our previous au pairs, Rebeca and Gaby, joined us and our new au pair Ana. As requested, it was Paw Patrol themed!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122025\/aaron_birthday_5_cake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122025\/aaron_birthday_5_cake_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It was a fun afternoon. Maybe next year we&#8217;ll extend the birthday to some kids Aaron&#8217;s age, but pandemic habits die hard, and it&#8217;s been a pretty busy season for all of us.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122025\/aaron_birthday_5_present.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/journalpics\/122025\/aaron_birthday_5_present_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Aaron has been enjoying his new-found access to video games. He&#8217;s starting out with a Paw Patrol game and Mario Kart, but I expect he&#8217;ll quickly graduate to some more complicated ones. I&#8217;m super proud of how much he&#8217;s matured in this past year. He&#8217;s doing great in Transitional Kindergarten at the public school, and he surprises me all the time with what he&#8217;s learning and understanding about the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 2nd we flew home from our Thanksgiving trip to Philadelphia. The timing and pricing of the flight worked out best for us, but unfortunately it also landed on Aaron&#8217;s 5th birthday. We made the best of it though. Since I told him he could start playing video games when he turned five, we [&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-18143","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\/18143","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=18143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18147,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143\/revisions\/18147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}