{"id":3465,"date":"2012-07-08T05:07:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T10:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/07\/08\/this-weeks-happenings-72-78\/"},"modified":"2012-07-08T05:07:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T10:07:57","slug":"this-weeks-happenings-72-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/07\/08\/this-weeks-happenings-72-78\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Happenings 7\/2-7\/8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a very uneventful week!&#160; Ben was busy with work stuff and worked a lot of hours this week, which left Mikayla and I to entertain ourselves!&#160; We had a lot of fun studying the Letter S this week and spent a lot of time at the hostel.&#160; The kids were off an on with being out of school (which is a whole different conversation) so we spent a lot of time at the hostel this week.&#160; I also did a mini training with the hostel staff on quick reading and math activities they could do with the kids.&#160; Here are a couple pictures from our week.<\/p>\n<p>Two new birds for Steve &#8211; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter S and birds 024\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 024\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-024.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Two of these were swooping around the sky this week.&#160; They were loud too!<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter S and birds 020\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 020\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-020.jpg\" width=\"366\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Bird from above sitting in the tree at a distance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter S and birds 028\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 028\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-028.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Heard this guy pecking away in a large tree this week!&#160; Obviously this is the bird&#8217;s backside.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter S and birds 031\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 031\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-031.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>I looked out the window while doing dishes last night and just saw Mikayla hanging around!&#160; What a monkey!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have a busy few weeks coming up.&#160; Ben will continue to stay busy with work as a lot of quarterly reports are due.&#160; Katie, who was here when we arrived, will return on Tuesday for a two month stint.&#160; Joe has some friends coming in the middle of July for two weeks and then his mom will be here in August.&#160; We are also trying to finalize our plans while in the states.&#160; Speaking of, anyone have fun ideas of things to do with Mikayla while we are in NYC, specifically Manhattan?&#160; Or London?&#160; Thanks for the help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a very uneventful week!&#160; Ben was busy with work stuff and worked a lot of hours this week, which left Mikayla and I to entertain ourselves!&#160; We had a lot of fun studying the Letter S this week and spent a lot of time at the hostel.&#160; The kids were off an on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[121,116],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-birds","tag-weeks-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}