{"id":146,"date":"2008-05-23T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/05\/my-babys-growing-up.html"},"modified":"2008-05-23T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T19:58:00","slug":"my-babys-growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/05\/my-babys-growing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"My Baby&#8217;s Growing Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week was graduation week at my boys&#8217; preschool. I attended Timmy&#8217;s end-of-year picnic on Tuesday by myself, as Jake was in class and Dave was in Nebraska getting us a house. I didn&#8217;t get many good pictures of Timmy, he was being too crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob&#8217;s ceremony, on the other hand, was way more emotional. I wanted to share pictures of Jacob&#8217;s graduation and a little trip down memory lane.<\/p>\n<p>I guess great minds think alike, because while I was drafting this, Maryann shared with me <a href=\"http:\/\/maryanng.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/joey-you.html\">this post.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>Here he is graduating from the Ducks, his 4-year-old class, May 21, 2007:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/vollmerdp\/JakeTheDuck\/photo#5203669036639532082\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/vollmerdp\/SDclaymZNDI\/AAAAAAAAPuI\/mXpyb6a1TWM\/s400\/IMG_2004.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And from the Penguins, his pre-Kindergarten class, May 22, 2008:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/vollmerdp\/20080522JacobPreschoolGraduation\/photo#5203282970619228722\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/vollmerdp\/SDXGSymZMjI\/AAAAAAAAPoE\/EGUkoodpvPI\/s400\/IMG_1456.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are more photos from Jake&#8217;s ceremony:<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was graduation week at my boys&#8217; preschool. 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