{"id":1462,"date":"2011-03-21T18:59:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T18:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2011-03-22T14:03:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:03:46","slug":"dear-dear-lilly-katherine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/dear-dear-lilly-katherine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear, Dear Lilly Katherine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preston asked me who my Elementary School teachers were.\u00a0 I was listing them off for him, and when i got to 5th Grade I said, &#8220;Daddy and I both had Mrs. Roach for 5th Grade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Lilly Katherine thought for just a second, in a very &#8220;you&#8217;ve-lost-your-mind-Mama&#8221; kind of voice she said, &#8220;Her name was Mrs. <em>ROACH<\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;Yes, baby, her name was Mrs. Roach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>To which her response (with great enthusiasm and expression) was, &#8220;That&#8217;s silly because a roach isn&#8217;t a <em>name<\/em>, a roach is a <em>VEGETABLE<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>How do I even respond to that?\u00a0 My 4 year old thinks roaches are vegetables.\u00a0 I tried to tell her roaches are ugly nasty bugs, but I don&#8217;t think she believed me.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The next day I just wanted to see what LK would say, so I said, &#8220;Hey, Lilly Katherine, what&#8217;s a roach?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Her response, &#8220;A vegetable&#8230;No, it&#8217;s a fruit!&#8221; (said in a very proud voice, because she corrected herself with the right answer)<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>I think my baby girl might be a little bit of a fruit.\u00a0 At least she&#8217;s cute&#8230;and keeps us all laughing! :)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1466\" title=\"LK\" src=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LK.jpg 570w, http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LK-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preston asked me who my Elementary School teachers were.\u00a0 I was listing them off for him, and when i got to 5th Grade I said, &#8220;Daddy and I both had Mrs. Roach for 5th Grade.&#8221; . Lilly Katherine thought for just a second, in a very &#8220;you&#8217;ve-lost-your-mind-Mama&#8221; kind of voice she said, &#8220;Her name was [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}