{"id":7592,"date":"2014-06-12T13:31:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7592"},"modified":"2016-09-07T20:49:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T01:49:20","slug":"reading-and-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7592","title":{"rendered":"Reading… (And “Reading”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This past week was the first of summer with all three boys at home. It was a blast! We are still working out the hitches, though. Emil’s nap time in particular has been tricky. He can sleep for 2 – 3 hours every afternoon, which is fantastic; he wakes up refreshed AND it forces the older boys to be calm and take a break in the middle of the day, so there’s a good block of time where we all get to rest. But keeping them quiet has proven difficult. Oliver’s regular voice alone breaks the sound barrier (no, seriously, it’s a siren), but add their conversations and sometimes arguments to the mix, and I’m pulling my hair out trying to keep them quiet!<\/p>\n

Also, I didn’t want to set the stage for the entire summer of the older boys just watching a show on our computer every single day during Emil’s nap. I’d like to keep screen time to a bare minimum, but I also need a break… see my dilemma? But I think we’ve found a solution, and you’re probably going to laugh:<\/p>\n

Audio CDs checked out from the library! Yesterday Milo and Oliver were in heaven lying on their bellies on the rug next to our old cd player\/radio listening to Henry Huggins<\/a> for hours<\/em>. Beverly Cleary, my friends, is a genius. And I think we’re on our way back to the library to check out a whole lot more of those!<\/p>\n

Of course, Milo is reading up a storm this summer already (he logged 6 hours in 3 days, which is a lot for a 6-year-old I think, and he’s loving Magic Tree House books), but this is something he and Oliver can do together, which I think we all really appreciate. Plus, unlike the zombie-faces they get when watching something, they are so engaged when they are listening to stories; you can see the wheels turning, and they do other things while listening, like put together puzzles or doing word cards. Even when they are just lying there, you can tell they are using those imaginations to fill in the details of the story. Such a great thing!<\/p>\n

P.s.- I’m currently reading Tell The Wolves I’m Home<\/a> (great so far) and recently finished Where’d You Go, Bernadette<\/a> (really funny, I loved it!) and Eleanor and Park<\/a> (good, but not my absolute favorite).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

P.s.s.- I’m reading to the kids aloud: Sideways Stories from Wayside School<\/a> and the boys fall down laughing they love it so much!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past week was the first of summer with all three boys at home. It was a blast! We are still working out the hitches, though. Emil’s nap time in particular has been tricky. He can sleep for 2 – 3 hours every afternoon, which is fantastic; he wakes up refreshed AND it forces the … Continue reading “Reading… (And “Reading”)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[69,132],"class_list":["post-7592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-brothers","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592","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=7592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7595,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions\/7595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}