{"id":2395,"date":"2010-04-18T20:47:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2010-04-18T20:52:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:52:37","slug":"apple-bringing-families-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2395","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8230;Bringing Families Together."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tease J. about being the poster child for &#8220;all things Apple&#8221; all of the time, so I&#8217;m a little surprised to realize that this is the first glimpse you have all seen of the newest member of our techie-loving family.<\/p>\n<p>I give you &#8211;\u00a0 J.&#8217;s iPad.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0193.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/4533135833\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2713\/4533135833_14f16d8e15_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0193.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There she is, in all her glory. Well, her &#8220;backside&#8221; at least.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0197.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/4533709196\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4010\/4533709196_9b912377dd_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0197.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Em and Daddy are probably farming here. They are a little obsessed with the <em><strong>You Rule<\/strong><\/em> app and are always busy building their kingdom. I think they are constructing a tavern right now, which will be very useful for Mama to visit since Emma has also discovered the <em><strong>Glee<\/strong><\/em> app. Where you sing. Loudly. And off-key. And, hey! You can plug in headphones so the iPad can record you singing! Which doesn&#8217;t even give the rest of us the added benefit of hearing the music, you know, the <em>real song<\/em>. You can totally see where I&#8217;m going here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Addie pretty much likes watching cats, dogs, hamsters&#8230;any sort of featured animal video of the day on YouTube. Our favorite around here right now is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W1NR7oGzcEg\" target=\"_blank\">Standing Cat<\/a>. And if you like that one you have to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gZy2I8csVQU\" target=\"_blank\">Standing Cat (Now in Boots!)<\/a>. Why can&#8217;t our dumb cat ever do anything funny like that?<\/p>\n<p>But, back to the iPad. She has even replaced J.&#8217;s plain ol&#8217; boring <strong>book <\/strong>in our Sunday-reading-in-the-hammock routine. Hmmm&#8230;note how I instinctively called it a &#8220;she&#8221;? Designating gender to a piece of technology isn&#8217;t very odd at all. I guess that just proves that she has found a very happy place in our family. And doesn&#8217;t fear getting kicked out or disowned any time soon. She has become &#8220;one of the girls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0199.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/4533076053\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2702\/4533076053_fb80e72c5f_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0199.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tease J. about being the poster child for &#8220;all things Apple&#8221; all of the time, so I&#8217;m a little surprised to realize that this is the first glimpse you have all seen of the newest member of our techie-loving &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-CD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}