{"id":1606,"date":"2011-08-09T21:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streamdoubletrouble.com\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2011-08-09T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T04:46:11","slug":"happy-birthday-muppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/happy-birthday-muppets\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Muppets?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What?<\/a> Don\u2019t worry; you\u2019re not going crazy. The muppets turned one 10 weeks ago<\/a>. You may remember that big muppet-themed HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY<\/a> shindig.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But the card gracing the beautiful basket bouquet of flowers on our doorstep read \u201cHappy Birthday Destroy and Search. With lots of love, hugs and kisses. Love, Grandpa and Grandma.\u201d<\/p>\n

My first reaction was to question my parents aging sanity. I have long since figured out that there is a celestial effect on the frontal lobe of a parent the moment they become a grandparent. But I thought the date of said grandchild\u2019s birth would be big enough to commit to memory\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cHappy Homecoming to Search!<\/a>\u201d I announced to GrammaJ this morning (before the flower confusion).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always said I think of homecoming as their birthday,\u201d my mother retorted.<\/p>\n

This afternoon GrampaStavo received a phone call at work \u2013 Lee was calling, and it was personal.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Gustavo. I have here in my records that it was a year ago that we sent flowers welcoming home your twins! Should we send another arrangement today?\u201d Well how about that? The muppets are famous throughout Santa Clara! (Lee is the local florist<\/a> my dad always uses for a fragrant commemoration of special events, but I won\u2019t discount the possibility the shop reads this blog.)<\/p>\n

Homecoming was the first time any of the grandparents met their new pride and joys. With my vast 14 months experience as a parent, I can only imagine how difficult it must have been for our parents to remain sidelined, merely watching their own children from the sidelines.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

"Got a machine headdddddd..."<\/p><\/div>\n

When we brought the muppets home at a hefty 6lbs 6oz, Jon and I thought they were huge. But our parents couldn\u2019t resist cooing about how tiny the little ones were. It\u2019s all about perspective<\/a>. Today, one of those tiny bundles of joy spent the evening canvasing the living room while the other rocked out, singing along to 90s alt-rock.<\/p>\n

The flowers are beautiful. Homecoming is happy. It is not the muppets birthday (even if you think it should be.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What? Don\u2019t worry; you\u2019re not going crazy. The muppets turned one 10 weeks ago. You may remember that big muppet-themed HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY shindig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8,12,24],"tags":[61,272,414,410],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Sbzi-pU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4505,"url":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/then-and-now-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":1606,"position":0},"title":"Then and Now","date":"May 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy seventh birthday, Muppets.","rel":"","context":"In "Birthday"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/streamoftheconscious.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Birthday-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2512,"url":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/then-and-now-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1606,"position":1},"title":"Then and Now","date":"May 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy second birthday, Muppets.","rel":"","context":"In "Baby Photos"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.streamdoubletrouble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Birthday-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1404,"url":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":1606,"position":2},"title":"Then and Now","date":"May 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy first birthday, Muppets. Then: May 28, 2010 Now: May 28, 2011","rel":"","context":"In "Baby Photos"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.streamdoubletrouble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Muppets-First-Birthday_05-28-11_20-300x200.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3332,"url":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/then-and-now-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1606,"position":3},"title":"Then and Now","date":"May 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy third birthday, Muppets.","rel":"","context":"In "Birthday"","img":{"alt_text":"2012","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.streamdoubletrouble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Birthday-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3892,"url":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/then-and-now-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":1606,"position":4},"title":"Then and Now","date":"May 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy fourth birthday, Muppets.","rel":"","context":"In "Baby Photos"","img":{"alt_text":"2012","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/streamoftheconscious.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Birthday-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4343,"url":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/then-and-now-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":1606,"position":5},"title":"Then and Now","date":"May 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy fifth\u00a0birthday, Muppets.","rel":"","context":"In "Baby Photos"","img":{"alt_text":"2012","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/streamoftheconscious.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Birthday-2-300x200.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamoftheconscious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}