{"id":2820,"date":"2011-03-15T00:25:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T07:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2011-03-15T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:23:33","slug":"little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/?p=2820","title":{"rendered":"Little Things&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>This past weekend, Olivia woke up in the middle of the night, crying. I ran into her room, asked her what was wrong, and she couldn&#8217;t tell me, so I prodded &#8220;Did you have a bad dream?&#8221; &#8220;Uh huh!&#8221; she sobbed. &#8220;Well, tell me what happened??&#8221; &#8220;I dreamed&#8230;.I dreamed&#8230;.The Easter Bunny came to our house and left spiders in the yard!&#8221; Intense sobbing ensued. I soothed her back to sleep, promising her that would NEVER happen and told her of all the fun treats the Easter Bunny would leave. Luckily she didn&#8217;t remember the nightmare the next morning.<\/li>\n<li>Last night, as I was supervising Sophia in the shower, I told her to make sure to wash her feet and in between her toes. So she proceeded to slowly, and almost ape-like, spread each individual toe and scrub in between each and every one. WithOUT losing her balance. Talent. She&#8217;s got it.<\/li>\n<li>Olivia decided that she wanted to change her name. Her new name? Ancient Ruins. I wish I could say I was joking, but she&#8217;s been going around calling herself Ancient Ruins for three days. Damn Diego.<\/li>\n<li>My friend Traci came over to watch the girls so I could go have some diagnostic tests run yesterday afternoon. The baby she cares for, Leah, has a &#8220;Sophie the Giraffe&#8221; toy. When Sophia saw it she asked Traci: &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t it named &#8220;Olivia the Giraffe&#8221;? I&#8217;m not sure if Traci had an answer for that, but, to Sophia, it is one of the world&#8217;s greatest mysteries. <em>edit: Traci just left a comment to let me know the rest of the conversation. Says Traci: &#8220;I told her I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t  know, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what the box said when we bought it. Her response was  EPIC. &#8216;The box talked to you?&#8217;.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Olivia wanted to know why I was going to the doctor. I tried to explain, but she interrupted: &#8220;It&#8217;s because you want to know why you aren&#8217;t eating so much food?&#8221; I answered, &#8220;Well, kind of.&#8221; She went on &#8220;Or is it why you aren&#8217;t doing your exercises anymore?&#8221; I was a little taken aback and said &#8220;Well, I can&#8217;t do my exercises because it is hard for me to eat enough food without feeling sick and so I don&#8217;t have enough energy to exercise.&#8221; Olivia pondered that for a moment and said &#8220;Hm&#8230;Well, if they find out why you can&#8217;t eat food then you can get fixed and start your exercises again.&#8221; Motivation, Olivia be thy name.<\/li>\n<li>Olivia has taken to tying a stick to her jump rope and says it is her dog, whom she proceeds to &#8216;walk&#8217; all over the yard. On Sunday, she told me she needed a new dog because her stick dog told her he was going to eat her. Yesterday, she was given the opportunity to walk Traci&#8217;s dog, Riley around on a leash, which she thoroughly enjoyed, except for the part where she realized\u00c2\u00a0 there was a lot more work involved to make a real dog move than a stick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/267_Mar141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2822\" title=\"Olivia is walking Riley.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/267_Mar141-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/267_Mar141-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/267_Mar141-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/267_Mar141-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/267_Mar141-400x266.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/267_Mar141.jpg 1457w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ha! I totally get to use &#8220;Little Things&#8221; as a new &#8220;feature&#8221; where I just throw a bunch of stuff I really don&#8217;t have enough material to devote a full post to, but want to preserve for posterity. Consider yourself warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> This past weekend, Olivia woke up in the middle of the night, crying. I ran into her room, asked her what was wrong, and she couldn&#8217;t tell me, so I prodded &#8220;Did you have a bad dream?&#8221; &#8220;Uh huh!&#8221; she sobbed. &#8220;Well, tell me what happened??&#8221; &#8220;I dreamed&#8230;.I dreamed&#8230;.The Easter Bunny came to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,7,9,14],"tags":[77,75,73,67,65,68,66,69,71,74,70,72,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ourlittlethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}