{"id":520,"date":"2006-10-04T09:51:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T14:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/10\/04\/wherein-eli-learns-one-of-the-most-satisfying-experiences-known-to-man\/"},"modified":"2006-10-04T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T14:51:39","slug":"wherein-eli-learns-one-of-the-most-satisfying-experiences-known-to-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Wherein Eli Learns One of the Most Satisfying Experiences known to Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday there was a box on our front step. I brought it in and as soon as Eli saw it he said,<\/p>\n

“We got a package!”<\/p>\n

As if this were the holy grail just shipped from Amazon.<\/p>\n

When I opened it, hundreds of peanuts escaped and like a maniacal monkey Eli started scooping them up off the floor. He had not yet seen the true wonder of what else the box contained.<\/p>\n

Side note: Last Christmas we got a box just like this. It contained, what I thought was a gift for me and Stephen, a couple gift if you will, and a gift for Eli. The peanuts went straight to the garbage because there were many of them and I didn’t want to have to vacuum them up. A few days later we got a phone call from Sean in Arizona. He asked Stephen how he liked his new Playstation 2 game. Stephen’s reply, “What game?” Seems I had thrown the<\/em> Gran Turismo 3 out with the bath water.<\/em><\/p>\n

So this box, once opened and excavated, I left sitting in the floor of the office so Stephen could also paw through it and verify it contained no elusive Playstation loot. Fast forward to this morning…<\/p>\n

Eli comes in from his morning diaper summit with Stephen and spies the box. In the box was a piece of bubble rap. This was the first view I had of my child this morning.
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\nSee the look of intense concentration. Once Stephen had shown him how to pop the bubbles he knew genetically<\/em> to systematically go down the rows of bubbles checking for unpopped ones. Now see the look of sheer joy at finishing the project.
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\nP.S. Kat and Sean, we loved our gifts. Thanks especially from Eli for the bubble rap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday there was a box on our front step. I brought it in and as soon as Eli saw it he said, “We got a package!” As if this were the holy grail just shipped from Amazon. When I opened it, hundreds of peanuts escaped and like a maniacal monkey Eli started scooping them up … Continue reading Wherein Eli Learns One of the Most Satisfying Experiences known to Man<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t