{"id":741,"date":"2011-11-08T18:57:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T22:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2011-11-08T18:57:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T22:57:53","slug":"all-about-the-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"All About The Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I wrote about how my boys were all about the climb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This morning, I woke up to find this scattered across my island. By my island, in this case, I mean the one in my kitchen. Yes, the one where we do a large portion of our food prep. Try not to think too hard about that one.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I had a stream-of-consciousness morning<\/del> moment, which led me to conclude that while my boys may be all about the climb, my daughter is all about the shells. I present to you the evidence of the last four days.<\/p>\n

Exhibit A: Friday<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Early Friday evening, baby-girl begged me to take her to the beach so she could look for shells. I obliged, happy to have an excuse to go myself.<\/p>\n

Exhibit B: Saturday<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My daughter requested another trip to the beach for the purpose of shell-collecting on Saturday, but alas for us both, it was my day to clean the walls. We are in the midst of redoing the bowels of our new house, and step one was to clean the walls of all unidentifiable substances, of which there are many. Step two will be ripping out the carpeting, which has acquired its own unique funk and is the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second most unattractive carpeting color (the first being the color I called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dung of the cow brown\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in our apartment we lived in after we were first married), and replacing it with the lighter of the two pieces of wood laminate floors<\/a> I showed you a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the point is that I was cleaning the walls and doing general household cleaning all day, so baby-girl had no option to go to the beach that day. But she would have if she could have.<\/p>\n

Exhibit C: Sunday<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>She and I ran off to the beach when the boys got a little too Tarzan on us, and she stuffed the pockets of her skirt with shells almost to the point of overflowing.<\/p>\n

Exhibit D: Monday<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Midmorning, my daughter and I packed snacks, towels and the plastic green container she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s carrying to use for shell-collecting, and headed to the beach. The items on the kitchen island were some of the pieces she collected yesterday.<\/p>\n

So, of the last four days, she spent three of them amassing shells.<\/p>\n

She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four, so these things often shift with the frequency of the tides, but I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s safe to say that, for the moment, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all about the shells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I wrote about how my boys were all about the climb. This morning, I woke up to find this scattered across my island. By my island, in this case, I mean the one in my kitchen. Yes, the one where we do a large portion of our food prep. Try not to think too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[653,655,105,100,465,654,652],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","category-island-parenting","tag-collecting-shells","tag-im-raising-a-shell-collector","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-island-mom","tag-little-girls-and-their-shells","tag-redecorating-beach-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}