{"id":617,"date":"2013-09-06T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/?p=617"},"modified":"2013-09-09T12:16:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T16:16:37","slug":"three-is-the-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Three is the charm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I am back in the Detroit area this week&#8230; This time, instead of catching the sites in the evenings, I&#8217;m just trying to satiate the needs of three amazing younglings&#8230; The children of my old friends Hallie and James as they work their evenings together at <a href=\"http:\/\/ www.tippingpointtheatre.com\">Tipping Point Theater<\/a>&#8230;\u00a0 The kids are great. Aiden, who just started 4th grade and LOVES it, Vera, who is a VERY vocal 3 and a half, and little Gavin, who at just over a year, is already\u00a0so cool and incidentally asleep on my lap as I write this&#8230; We had a nice first evening of hanging in the back yard, checking out a rock collection, playing with some play-doh, dancing to some reggae, eating some tacos, and figuring out cloth diapers&#8230; Good times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0009.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0009.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0009.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0007.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0007.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0007.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Day 2<br \/>\nI had a wonderful evening of pasta, playing candy mountain, teaching Aidan how to play C and G on guitar, and made some killer curried chickpea, kale, roasted garlic, red chili, and veggie deliciousness&#8230; None of the kids wanted any, but the big kids sure did! Met my goal of getting little Gavin in the crib and not holding him for the entire time&#8230; Not too bad, I figure, for a single, childless, niece and nephewless, nomad&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0011.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0011.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0015.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0015.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Day 3<\/p>\n<p>Another good day of working through the day<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0017.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0017.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0017.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>and having fun with the three fireballs at night. Today we hung out in the back yard and played with rocks,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0029.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0029.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0029.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> balls, and&#8230; A bow and arrow? Maybe&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0018.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0018.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0018.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It was a great time and we even got a visit from dad, who missed hanging with his favorite little people!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0028_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0028_1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0028_1.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It was a great day and an excellent few days of hanging with a wonderful family and one of my oldest buddies&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0030_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0030_1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0030_1.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This walk of mine seems to be filled with wonderful little situations that are simply meant to be.<br \/>\nI love you all!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0020.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0020.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0020.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0036.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMAG0036.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMAG0036.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I am back in the Detroit area this week&#8230; This time, instead of catching the sites in the evenings, I&#8217;m just trying to satiate the needs of three amazing younglings&#8230; The children of my old friends Hallie and James as they work their evenings together at Tipping Point Theater&#8230;\u00a0 The kids are great. Aiden, who just started 4th grade&#8230;<span class=\"path-read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/?p=617\" title=\"Three is the charm\">  Read more &rarr; <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michigan","category-office","category-places","category-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trail.walkofirresponsibility.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}