{"id":7906,"date":"2014-08-19T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7906"},"modified":"2016-09-07T20:13:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T01:13:20","slug":"reading-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7906","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0001\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5588\/14743734368_30f1024c63_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0001\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5588\/14743734368_30f1024c63_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0001\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we were last at the library, I accidentally came across author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Frog-Toad-Collection-Read-Book\/dp\/0060580860\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1408335251&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=frog+and+toad+all+year+by+arnold+lobel\" target=\"_blank\">Arnold Lobel<\/a>&#8216;s books and had flashbacks to my own childhood! The stories are classic, sweet, and written with an innocence reminiscent of young children and age of magical thinking.\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0002\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3847\/14743778547_c414868e58_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0002\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3847\/14743778547_c414868e58_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0002\" width=\"1024\" height=\"730\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Owl-Home-Read-Picture-Book\/dp\/1435107683\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1408335185&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=owl+at+home\" target=\"_blank\">Owl At Home<\/a> to Emil one rainy afternoon (we&#8217;ve been reading a lot more since he gave up those beautiful wonderful dreamy naps), I remembered what it felt like to\u00a0<em>be read to\u00a0<\/em>when I was a little girl &#8212; this very same story, about Owl making teardrop tea; I remember thinking how silly the things were that Owl thought about to make himself sad: &#8220;mashed potatoes left on a plate&#8230; because no one wanted to eat them,&#8221; for instance. And all of the stories are like that, light and innocent and silly and sweet. Just perfect for little ones.<br \/>\n<a title=\"DSC_0004\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3847\/14743682330_783cca83df_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0004\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3847\/14743682330_783cca83df_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0004\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a>Actually, just perfect for anyone. As I was reading, Milo and Oliver listened from the other room, giggling and acting like the stories were too babyish for them&#8230; until they wandered over and ended up snuggled up next to us on the couch.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say that I blame them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were last at the library, I accidentally came across author Arnold Lobel&#8216;s books and had flashbacks to my own childhood! The stories are classic, sweet, and written with an innocence reminiscent of young children and age of magical thinking.\u00a0 As I read Owl At Home to Emil one rainy afternoon (we&#8217;ve been reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7906\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[48,132],"class_list":["post-7906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-motherhood","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906","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=7906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7909,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions\/7909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}