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<\/p>\nEarlier tonight, I was sitting at my computer, and SteelyKid came running over. “Let’s go to Israel. Pretend Israel.” she said in a conspiratorial whisper.<\/p>\n
“Why are you whispering?” I asked. “Do we have to whisper in pretend Israel?”<\/p>\n
“Yes,” she replied immediately. “Because there are bears.”<\/p>\n
The origin of this odd conversation was today’s “trip” to “Israel” at the JCC day care. The pre-schoolers all got out in the hall, sat down, and pretended to ride an airplane to Israel. Once there, SteelyKid’s class made like good American tourists, and went shopping. She excels at shopping.<\/p>\n
This was a big hit, and has prompted a variety of travel-to-Israel related pretend games tonight, including this week’s Toddler Blogging:<\/p>\n
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That’s Kate and SteelyKid riding in a car, or possibly a bus, or maybe a plane, on their way to Israel. She tried to rope me in, but I needed to take Emmy for her walk, so I begged off, saying Emmy and I would meet them there. “Have fun walking to Israel!” she called.<\/p>\n
Apparently, after getting to pretend Israel, they had a dance party. Because, I guess, that’s what you do when the bears aren’t around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Earlier tonight, I was sitting at my computer, and SteelyKid came running over. “Let’s go to Israel. Pretend Israel.” she said in a conspiratorial whisper. “Why are you whispering?” I asked. “Do we have to whisper in pretend Israel?” “Yes,” she replied immediately. “Because there are bears.” The origin of this odd conversation was today’s… Continue reading Thursday Holy Land Blogging 051911<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}