{"id":626,"date":"2007-08-07T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2007\/08\/07\/imaginative-play\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T21:18:08","slug":"imaginative-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Imaginative Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was enforcing a time a time-out for John today, I overheard Jenna talking to a friend in the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to play doctor, where the patients all have to be cleaned so they won&#8217;t pass on any diseases.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And the kids don&#8217;t want to get those diseases, either, so everyone needs to clean each other.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be the doctor, and you be all the patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering what in the world they are talking about, but don&#8217;t go in to see just yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How does that feel?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That tickles!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then Natalie goes in there to use the bathroom for something and says, &#8220;You guys had better clean that up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m getting a towel!&#8221; says Jenna.<\/p>\n<p>That would be my cue to see what&#8217;s going on.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 They are &#8216;cleaning&#8217; each other with a spray bottle of water.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Squirt, Squirt, Squirt.<\/p>\n<p>A little while later, they had both changed into swimsuits and were headed outside to squirt each other while jumping on the tramp.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 John found a squirt gun and joined in the fun.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Until they squirted him too many times and he decided they were being mean, that is.<br \/>\nLater still, I see them both in the sparkliest clothes they could find.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Are you playing dress-up?&#8221; I asked.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;No, we&#8217;re dancing,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember when you could just play pretend all day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was enforcing a time a time-out for John today, I overheard Jenna talking to a friend in the bathroom. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to play doctor, where the patients all have to be cleaned so they won&#8217;t pass on any diseases.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And the kids don&#8217;t want to get those diseases, either, so everyone needs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}