{"id":52,"date":"2005-07-19T11:04:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2005-07-29T21:49:46","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T02:49:46","slug":"bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"bubbles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i love bubbles.  i had one kid in for my baby storytime today and (because someone had a short attention span) after we did a few songs and stories, we played with bubbles and had fun.  i tried to get her to blow some bubbles, and at one point, she was blowing, but when i got the bubble wand closer to her mouth, she tried to lick it instead.<\/p>\n<p>i once babysat a girl who was too young to talk yet, but who had some really great non-verbal cues to let you know what she wanted.  when she wanted to blow bubbles, she would hold up her index finger and blow on it.  i think this might actually be the ASL sign for bubbles, but i could be wrong.  she also had this funny way to tell you that she wanted a drink of water.  see, my sister was her usual babysitter and when my sister finishes taking a drink, she (unconsciously) says, &#8220;ahhh&#8221; (she claims it has something to do with her chronically stuffed sinuses).  no one really noticed this until the girl she was babysitting started saying &#8220;ahhh&#8221; and pointing to the fridge.  my sister eventually figured out that this meant she wanted a drink of water.  the acquisition of communication is a miracle to observe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i love bubbles. i had one kid in for my baby storytime today and (because someone had a short attention span) after we did a few songs and stories, we played with bubbles and had fun. i tried to get &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=52\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-stuff-that-makes-me-smile","category-trip-down-memory-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}