{"id":10929,"date":"2012-08-10T11:25:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/i-heart-ny\/2012\/08\/beginning-with-batman.html"},"modified":"2017-11-08T11:44:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:44:31","slug":"beginning-with-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/i-heart-ny\/2012\/08\/beginning-with-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning with Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband is a <strong>huge<\/strong> fan of super hero movies (I think it&#8217;s a guy thing?) and I have been drug to <em>every<\/em> movie featuring some comic book hero for as long as we&#8217;ve been together. I remember when we got engaged, I had to bribe him with tickets to see Iron Man just to get him to help me create our wedding registry. Most of the films I don&#8217;t mind, but I have to admit, I&#8217;d like to see a romantic comedy every now and then.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that baby Colt will most likely follow in his dad&#8217;s footprints&#8230;he was all dressed up to go see the Dark Knight Rises at the Malta Drive-In last week!<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_1793[1].jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/i-heart-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2017\/03\/img_17935b15d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve figured out that if I&#8217;m not on board with the super hero love fest, I&#8217;m probably going to get left behind. And if you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, you might as well join &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>My new favorite hobby has become attempting to make fancy-pants sugar cookies. I&#8217;m learning how to use icing bags &amp; frosting tips&#8230;for me it&#8217;s &#8220;cooking&#8221;! I figured if I could combine one of my new favorites with something Brett loved, we&#8217;d all win!<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_1787[1].jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/i-heart-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2012\/08\/img_17875b15d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Lucky for me, Batman is pretty easy&#8230;I&#8217;m slowly working my way up to Spiderman! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband is a huge fan of super hero movies (I think it&#8217;s a guy thing?) and I have been drug to every movie featuring some comic book hero for as long as we&#8217;ve been together. 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