{"id":6726,"date":"2014-01-30T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2016-09-08T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:05:43","slug":"setting-up-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=6726","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On the 24,009th snow day (it seems like a lot, right?), <\/em>Milo asked to set up a shop in our dining room. We really got into it, and by the end of it, he and Emil had spent a good three hours organizing, setting up, making play money and a cash register with a real pull-out drawer out of shoe boxes, and playing shop. I was seriously impressed by Milo’s focus on this task; the meticulous attention to detail, the careful cutting and designing each dollar (even a 17 dollar bill!), and the organization of his little store. He was pretty proud of it! And when Oliver got home from preschool later that afternoon, he joined in on the fun.<\/p>\n

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$20 for eggs? I don’t know about these prices…<\/em><\/p>\n

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I helped make the signs while Milo named the prices.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The developmental stages of Milo and Emil are not quite complimentary all the time; Milo strives for organization and order and has specific ideas of where he wants things. Emil fixates on mimicking behaviors he has seen his older brothers and parents do, while not yet having the fine motor skills suited for those behaviors (which results in chaos and destruction).\u00a0<\/em>There was only so much redirecting Milo could do before he became really frustrated by Emil’s attempts to take everything from his shop and throw it into the living room. So…\"DSC_0003\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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… we set up Emil’s Toy Shop across the way.\u00a0\"DSC_0007\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Once Emil had his own shop (and space) to take care of, he respected Milo’s hard work and everyone was happy. They took turns shuttling back and forth between stores with the shopping cart, buying and trading items. Emil kept his prices high “One hunned doww-ahs peese” <\/em>and kept Milo cracking up. Plus, his “cash register” turned out to be an empty box of graham crackers because Milo insisted,\u00a0The robbers will never suspect it’s there!<\/em>\"DSC_0001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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And for all you would-be robbers out there, Emil’s packing a hammer just in case you show up to try to take his “<\/em>hunned doww-ahs.” Consider yourself warned.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the 24,009th snow day (it seems like a lot, right?), Milo asked to set up a shop in our dining room. We really got into it, and by the end of it, he and Emil had spent a good three hours organizing, setting up, making play money and a cash register with a real … Continue reading “Setting Up Shop”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,187],"tags":[69,119,75],"class_list":["post-6726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy-fun","category-motherhood","tag-brothers","tag-diy","tag-ingenius-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11818,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions\/11818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}