{"id":1299,"date":"2006-01-13T15:23:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T19:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/01\/ice-cream\/"},"modified":"2006-01-13T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T19:23:19","slug":"ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/01\/ice-cream\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cream!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My youngest brother gave us an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000AA4CT0\/104-2872476-4764701?v=glance&#038;n=284507\">ice cream maker<\/a> for Christmas &#8211; it&#8217;s meant to be taken on camping trips, because it doesn&#8217;t require electricity.  We rolled it around the living room floor for 20 minutes several nights ago, and enjoyed the fruits of our labor after with tasty homemade vanilla ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it left quite an impression on Carrie.  <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, she totally skipped her nap, and after letting her chill in her crib &#8211; she was playing quite happily for about 2 hours &#8211; I brought her back downstairs.  She started playing with a spoon and bowl from her tea set, so I asked her if she would like a snack.  She carefully put the spoon and bowl in one hand, and started to sign with the other.  I was expecting her to sign &#8220;eat&#8221;, but instead she signed &#8220;ice cream&#8221;.  We had a little talk about how ice cream was a &#8220;sometimes food&#8221;, and I gave her a couple of more appropriate snack options to choose from, and she was fine with it.  <\/p>\n<p>But I was totally floored.  I guess because Carrie isn&#8217;t verbal yet I haven&#8217;t been giving her enough credit about how much she understands and has opinions about.  I&#8217;m good about giving her choices, like whether she wants a pear or a banana with breakfast, but I hadn&#8217;t really expected her to start voicing opinions without being given choices yet.  It&#8217;s both wonderful and terrifying to realize what a smart little cookie she is.  (And cookies, baby girl, are also &#8220;sometimes foods&#8221;!  Even if Mommy was this close -><- to baking a batch this afternoon.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My youngest brother gave us an ice cream maker for Christmas &#8211; it&#8217;s meant to be taken on camping trips, because it doesn&#8217;t require electricity. We rolled it around the living room floor for 20 minutes several nights ago, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}