{"id":797874,"date":"2024-06-16T15:42:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T15:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/?p=797874"},"modified":"2024-06-16T15:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T15:42:28","slug":"our-baby-is-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2024\/06\/16\/our-baby-is-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Baby is 21!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I recall when Alex turned five. I had a mini meltdown. He was already five? Time went by too fast. Now he’s 21 and I still feel the same. I am so grateful that I got front row-center to watch this beautiful person, inside and out, grow up to be the person he is today. As we transition our parent\/child relationship to parent\/adult child relationship, I am thankful and hopeful that the role of friend is a part of this relationship as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The traditional ‘Eat whatever you want for breakfast” breakfast. This year: BQ Chicken Wings, Pizza Rolls, Grapes, Bagel with Crean Chees and Lox, and his first legitimate adult beverage, Stella Artois<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dinner and more adult beverages at High Hand Brewing Company…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alex’s birthday extended into the next day with a day trip to Napa! We started the way we always start, a visit to Inglenook<\/a> for my favorite mocha and one of my favorite wineries. Alex had a glass of their fine Inglenook wine. We recreated a memory of him playing with a sailboat in their fountain when we went to Napa for the first time. He was seven. You can see the first photo here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On to Bennett Lane<\/a> winery. A beautiful boutique winery. We had the place to ourselves and a private tasting. Then a visit to the Culinary Institute of America<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last stop…dinner at Market <\/a>in St. Helena. A precious capture of moments and memories of our precious, treasured son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I recall when Alex turned five. I had a mini meltdown. He was already five? Time went by too fast. Now he’s 21 and I still feel the same. I am so grateful that I got front row-center to watch this beautiful person, inside and out, grow up to be the person he is today. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797877,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797874\/revisions\/797877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}