{"id":7487,"date":"2018-11-11T10:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T17:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2018\/11\/11\/mikey-turns-one\/"},"modified":"2018-11-11T21:54:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T04:54:54","slug":"mikey-turns-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2018\/11\/11\/mikey-turns-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Turns One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mikey-one-year.jpg' title='Boys and the Alphabet Train'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mikey-one-year.jpg' alt='Boys and the Alphabet Train' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our youngest great grandchild, Mikey, had his first birthday yesterday. We sent him a birthday package via USPS and our granddaughter took this picture of him playing with his new toy set. It is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00ZCZU71U\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&#038;psc=1\">V-Tech Sit to Stand Alphabet Train<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the detail on the educational toy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Push toy is designed to grow with your child; the toy train can be used as a floor toy, a ride on that also transforms into a baby walker or a pull toy wagon they can fill with toys<\/li>\n<li>Learning toy comes with 10 activities including a storybook, clock, gears; 13 double-sided alphabet blocks build fine motor skills and introduce letters, numbers, colors and more<\/li>\n<li>For toddler role-play toy fun, the included Walkie-Talkie and number pad encourage role-play and introduce numbers and animals; counting toy plays more than 100 songs, melodies, sounds and phrases<\/li>\n<li>Toy train counts the alphabet blocks when they&#8217;re dropped down the chute; kids story book teaches sing-along songs and plays melodies<\/li>\n<li>Educational toy is intended for toddlers ages 1 to 3 years old<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anna, our eldest granddaughter and mother of the boys, sent us the above photo of Mikey and older brother Alex with the train toy. She also sent a video of Mikey putting blocks in the top of the toy and it responds by playing sounds and music. Damsel and I both got a kick out of that.<\/p>\n<p>Thank God for our being able to see the kids as they grow up via electronic media. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our youngest great grandchild, Mikey, had his first birthday yesterday. We sent him a birthday package via USPS and our granddaughter took this picture of him&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}