{"id":119,"date":"2007-02-26T18:25:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T02:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riley.newdream.net\/?p=119"},"modified":"2007-02-26T18:28:52","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T02:28:52","slug":"drawing-in-the-bathtub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riley.newdream.net\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Drawing in the bathtub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago it was <em>freezing<\/em> in Palo Alto (remember that whole frost period&#8230; citrus crops decimated, etc). Anyway, it was too cold to go to the park, but Riley just can&#8217;t stand to spend the whole weekend in our apartment. So one day we went to hang out in a fun toy store near our house. And the next day we went to play in Pottery Barn Kids at the mall&#8230; they have tons of fun stuff there to play with, and toddler sized furniture which Riley seems to really like.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is basically a long explanation to say that while there we came across soap crayons for drawing in the bath tub, which i think is a fantastic idea. Riley&#8217;s gotten really into it, and often we let her play\/draw in the bathtub without actually taking a bath. It&#8217;s perfect because she&#8217;s not so good at drawing on paper (she trys to hold the paper up with one hand, while drawing with the other, doesn&#8217;t work so well). In the tub she can draw while walking all around the edge, it&#8217;s perfect! I guess the only downside is there&#8217;s no masterpiece to hang on the refrigerator when she&#8217;s done&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cam.fuggernut.com\/20070228%20misc%20riley\/.medium\/DSC04656.JPG\" width=280 height=360 alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today it rained all day long, so apparently Riley and Maricella spent a lot of time with the crayons in the bathtub&#8230; a new rainy day diversion! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago it was freezing in Palo Alto (remember that whole frost period&#8230; citrus crops decimated, etc). Anyway, it was too cold to go to the park, but Riley just can&#8217;t stand to spend the whole weekend in our apartment. So one day we went to hang out in a fun toy store [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riley.newdream.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riley.newdream.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riley.newdream.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riley.newdream.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riley.newdream.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riley.newdream.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riley.newdream.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riley.newdream.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riley.newdream.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}