{"id":18037,"date":"2012-12-01T19:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=18037"},"modified":"2017-02-25T12:58:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T04:58:01","slug":"more-conversations-with-a-three-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/12\/01\/more-conversations-with-a-three-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversations with a Three Year Old &#8211; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a couple of dishes that I can do passably well, learning that mostly came off my years spent in Perth. One of them is, incidentally, one of Hannah\u2019s favorite dishes \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carbonara\">Carbonara pasta<\/a>. So, that was for our dinner this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Hannah loves the fresh mushrooms that routinely go into my recipe. And on this occasion, she swiped everything off her plate faster than either of us. After which, she eyed my plate that still had plenty left.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cDaddy, you have a lot of mushrooms left. You don\u2019t want to finish all the mushrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hannah\u2019s first attempt at reverse psychology? It certainly can\u2019t be her attempt at Jedi mind-tricks for sure!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-OMDA1413-cousins-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/blog-2012-hannah-OMDA1413-cousins-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-OMDA1413-cousins-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With her cousins at grandparents, and over a game of Bad Piggies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019ve been starting to let her in on the fact that she\u2019ll be having a little brother or sister soon by informing her of the actionable things she\u2019ll have a part in. For example, that she\u2019ll be sharing her room soon with another. She seems quite alright with it, though whether she really understands the full extent of what is to come might be shown by her asking questions in response \u2013 which she hasn\u2019t yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a couple of dishes that I can do passably well, learning that mostly came off my years spent in Perth. One of them is, incidentally, one of Hannah\u2019s favorite dishes \u2013 Carbonara pasta. So, that was for our dinner<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/12\/01\/more-conversations-with-a-three-year-old\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Conversations with a Three Year Old &#8211; 2<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","category-dining","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-9-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/blog-2012-hannah-OMDA1413-cousins-flickr_thumb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}