{"id":8793,"date":"2010-04-24T17:30:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=8793"},"modified":"2010-04-24T19:02:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T11:02:03","slug":"irattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/24\/irattle\/","title":{"rendered":"iRattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best toys we bought for Hannah have to be those colourful plastic cups from Ikea. A pack of six costs only S$3.90 and they are a source of endless fun for our little girl. The things Hannah does with the cups so far are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bite, suck and lick at the rim<\/li>\n<li>tap and pat the cups<\/li>\n<li>hold one cup in one hand and clap it with the other<\/li>\n<li>make scratching sounds by pushing the cups against the floor<\/li>\n<li>make rhythmic noise by banging the cups against the floor or other objects<\/li>\n<li>hold one cup in each hand and clap them<\/li>\n<li>hold two cups in one hand and shake them<\/li>\n<li>throw the cups over the play yard when bored or to get mommy&#8217;s\/daddy&#8217;s attention<\/li>\n<li>stack the cups together<\/li>\n<li>create her own rattle by putting an object into one cup and shake it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last one was recorded last night when I saw her doing the very thing. As her mommy, I showed her various ways of playing with the cups (e.g. covering a ear with one cup to hear sounds of waves, spinning them, stacking them up into a pyramid) but she didn&#8217;t copycat. Well, I saw that our baby prefers to explore for herself and knows instinctively what creativity is. :)<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11183849&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best toys we bought for Hannah have to be those colourful plastic cups from Ikea. A pack of six costs only S$3.90 and they are a source of endless fun for our little girl. The things Hannah does with<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/24\/irattle\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  iRattle<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[470],"class_list":["post-8793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","tag-hdc-tm700","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}