{"id":1792,"date":"2008-04-20T21:26:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T02:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2008-04-20T21:26:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T02:26:21","slug":"the-orderliness-of-a-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2008\/the-orderliness-of-a-toddler\/","title":{"rendered":"The orderliness of a toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy is pushing two (which she&#8217;ll hit this Friday), and we&#8217;ve always heard about how toddlers get very interested in orderliness around this age  &#8212;  but it&#8217;s fun to see it ourselves. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like she&#8217;s arranging her toys according to the Periodic Table or anything. But she does greatly enjoy such activities as:<\/p>\n<p>* rehearsing our bedtime routines with her stuffed animals to put them down for naps<br \/>\n* moving all her crayons from one box to another (and then back again)<br \/>\n* making sure the flatbed cars are loaded with logs in her Brio train set<br \/>\n* arranging her bath toys in a tidy row on the edge of the tub<\/p>\n<p>She has been lining up her bath toys differently every day, so we decided to document the assemblage on three consecutive evenings. Now you can enjoy the lineup as much as she does!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_2562-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Orderliness 1\" width=\"480\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_2562-crop.jpg 480w, https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_2562-crop-128x48.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_2602-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Orderliness 2\" width=\"480\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_2602-crop.jpg 480w, https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_2602-crop-128x48.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_2604-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Orderliness 3\" width=\"480\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_2604-crop.jpg 480w, https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/img_2604-crop-128x48.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy is pushing two (which she&#8217;ll hit this Friday), and we&#8217;ve always heard about how toddlers get very interested in orderliness around this age &#8212; but it&#8217;s fun to see it ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}