{"id":120,"date":"2004-02-04T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansoup.martinitime.org\/?p=120"},"modified":"2012-12-13T20:10:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T20:10:37","slug":"head-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansoup.martinitime.org\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Head cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Bean has a cold and gave it to me. Neither one of us was feeling very well last night. But feeling sick is a fine opportunity for cuddling the wild bean.<\/p>\n<p>Her shirt has a skeleton on it and it says &#8220;I&#8217;m just skin and bones, need more candy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Halloween clothes and things at Target are the best. Em has a whole wardrobe of Halloween themed clothes&#8211; we went right before, right after and our friends<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgoth.com\/~sherilyn\/\">Sherilyn<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodclub.com\/web_pages\/katrina\/welcome.htm\"> Katrina<\/a> sent her some more from San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the cold there is a lot going on in BeanLand. She&#8217;s started a &#8216;superkids tumbling class.&#8217; Well that is how it was billed. I think the  teacher&#8217;s main experience is that she raised five kids on her own. Nothing to scoff at surely;I have enough of a time with one, but there isn&#8217;t any structure to the class. Basically that is fine&#8211;there is a lot of equipment and The Bean can run, squeal, climb, flop, jump and throw things all the while interacting with other children. The only time the lack of structure is a real drawback is at the end&#8211;without clear cut ending rituals, miss Bean doesn&#8217;t transition well and we get to enjoy a full fledged screaming tantrum. I have learned that we should both wear slip on shoes to these classes&#8211;velcro is the friend for quick exits. I&#8217;m attempting to make my own ending rituals for her as I notice the class drawing to an end. She wasn&#8217;t the only one to have a fit and fall in it, but she was the most clamant.  I become embarrassed at these situations, but I can&#8217;t really fault her for it. She has some very strong emotions (all toddlers do) and she doesn&#8217;t have the vocabulary to express it.  And she doesn&#8217;t have nuances &#8211;it is simply the end of the world when the class ends.  I do remain calm, at least so far. I find it rather karmically humourous that someone who is very particular about social cues and behaviour would have a more than usually intense child. And loud&#8230;whooo doggies can that bean yell. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/martinitime.org\/blogimages\/emily\/21to24mo\/snoozy3.jpg\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"to cuddle or not to cuddle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ossuary.org\/~jyllian\/blogimages\/emily\/21to24mo\/snoozy5.jpg\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"mmm snuggle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/martinitime.org\/blogimages\/emily\/21to24mo\/snoozy4.jpg\" alt=\"smile\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/martinitime.org\/blogimages\/emily\/21to24mo\/snoozy6.jpg\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"yawn\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Bean has a cold and gave it to me. Neither one of us was feeling very well last night. But feeling sick is a fine opportunity for cuddling the wild bean. Her shirt has a skeleton on it and it says &#8220;I&#8217;m just skin and bones, need more candy&#8221; Halloween clothes and things at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8dlru-1W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansoup.martinitime.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansoup.martinitime.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansoup.martinitime.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansoup.martinitime.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansoup.martinitime.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beansoup.martinitime.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/beansoup.martinitime.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansoup.martinitime.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansoup.martinitime.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansoup.martinitime.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}