Another short post for time keeping sake. I got my first proper smooch from Luka today. I conned Amelia into giving me a kiss to get something, and I turned to Luka and said, “Now you too Luka.”<\/p>\n
He puckered up, and planted one on my cheek.<\/p>\n
It was wonderful \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another short post for time keeping sake. I got my first proper smooch from Luka today. I conned Amelia into giving me a kiss to get something, and I turned to Luka and said, “Now you too Luka.” He puckered up, and planted one on my cheek. It was wonderful \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[64,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-bB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":751,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/01\/08\/my-baby-boy-is-a-little-man\/","url_meta":{"origin":719,"position":0},"title":"My baby boy is a little man","date":"January 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"So it's finally happening... 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