{"id":8755,"date":"2015-02-26T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8755"},"modified":"2016-09-07T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:05:00","slug":"reading-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8755","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0041\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8576\/16375525159_c383165a56_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0041\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8576\/16375525159_c383165a56_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0041\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Secret-Garden-Inky-Treasure-Coloring\/dp\/1780671067\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1424195132&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=secret+garden+coloring+book\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book<\/a>, Johanna Basford<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;re not technically\u00a0<em>reading\u00a0<\/em>this book, but as it is a book of sorts, I wanted to share the awesome beauty of Johanna Basford&#8217;s nature-inspired coloring book. My mom found a whole slew of great coloring books for the boys for Christmas. This one is our favorite.<br \/>\n<a title=\"DSC_0043\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7460\/16560140591_fbafffc5bf_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0043\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7460\/16560140591_fbafffc5bf_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0043\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My favorite activity with Milo this winter has been lying side-by-side on our bellies in front of the fireplace, feet warmed by the flames, listening to good music, and coloring together in this book. Usually it results in some pretty interesting discussions, as he always tends to open up when we are busy doing something like this \u2014 something non-confrontational and calm and almost meditative.<br \/>\n<a title=\"DSC_0045\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7366\/16560141521_029b67418f_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0045\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7366\/16560141521_029b67418f_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0045\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0046\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8619\/16374147188_7a313c5e2c_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0046\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8619\/16374147188_7a313c5e2c_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0046\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a>This coloring book is also full of hidden creatures throughout for you to find (16 bees, 2 frogs, 116 butterflies, 7 slugs, 1 squirrel, 1 hedgehog, 13 owls, and 3 mice, along with many many others). A perfect treat for all ages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And when we&#8217;re through with this one, we intend to order her newest: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Enchanted-Forest-Inky-Quest-Coloring\/dp\/1780674880\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1424195060&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=secret+garden+coloring+book\" target=\"_blank\">Enchanted Forest<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book, Johanna Basford We&#8217;re not technically\u00a0reading\u00a0this book, but as it is a book of sorts, I wanted to share the awesome beauty of Johanna Basford&#8217;s nature-inspired coloring book. My mom found a whole slew of great coloring books for the boys for Christmas. This one is our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=8755\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[75,92,48,132],"class_list":["post-8755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-ingenius-ideas","tag-milo","tag-motherhood","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755","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=8755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8796,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions\/8796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}