{"id":21,"date":"2009-03-10T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/10\/125-happy-things\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T22:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T22:52:00","slug":"125-happy-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/10\/125-happy-things\/","title":{"rendered":"125 Happy Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

My kids and I like to take part in Unplug Your kids<\/a> challenges and we’ve missed them lately.  I was busy being miserably sick all last week but I saw today that the theme was happy and I thought that seemed too good of a theme to pass up!  So I’ve gathered my gang and asked them all to compile a list of things that make them happy.<\/p>\n

Here’s 125 ways to be happy, a few from each of us….
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From Victoria (age 10)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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  1. Sledding<\/li>\n
  2. Ice skating<\/li>\n
  3. Skateboarding<\/li>\n
  4. Playing on the computer<\/li>\n
  5. Bike riding<\/li>\n
  6. Riding a scooter<\/li>\n
  7. Making jewelry<\/li>\n
  8. Reading funny books<\/li>\n
  9. Climbing trees<\/li>\n
  10. Hanging upside down<\/li>\n
  11. Hanging right side up too<\/li>\n
  12. Playing soccer<\/li>\n
  13. Playing baseball in the yard<\/li>\n
  14. Playing football (at least what we think is football) in the yard<\/li>\n
  15. Swimming<\/li>\n
  16. Going to the ocean<\/li>\n
  17. Being with friends<\/li>\n
  18. Volunteering at the animal shelter<\/li>\n
  19. Laughing<\/li>\n
  20. Dessert<\/li>\n
  21. Programming on Scratch<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. Dogs<\/li>\n
  23. Doing crafts<\/li>\n
  24. Running<\/li>\n
  25. Jumping<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    From Anna (9)…<\/span><\/div>\n
      \n
    1. Painting<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Building snowmen<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Doing art<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. Shopping<\/span><\/li>\n
    5. Catching tadpoles<\/span><\/li>\n
    6. Playing in the mud<\/span><\/li>\n
    7. Using mom’s computer<\/span><\/li>\n
    8. Playing Webkinz<\/span><\/li>\n
    9. Choosing earrings<\/span><\/li>\n
    10. Designing clothes<\/span><\/li>\n
    11. Chewing bubble gum<\/span><\/li>\n
    12. Playing with beads<\/span><\/li>\n
    13. Playing with Barbies<\/span><\/li>\n
    14. Playing with Littlest Pet Shop<\/span><\/li>\n
    15. Reading Encyclopedia Brown<\/span><\/li>\n
    16. Collecting bottle caps<\/span><\/li>\n
    17. Playing with friends<\/span><\/li>\n
    18. Snuggling with Mama<\/span><\/li>\n
    19. Chatting with Dad<\/span><\/li>\n
    20. Gmail<\/span><\/li>\n
    21. Painting my nails<\/span><\/li>\n
    22. Doing makeup<\/span><\/li>\n
    23. Singing and dancing<\/span><\/li>\n
    24. Songwriting<\/span><\/li>\n
    25. Taking pictures<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      By Jack (age 5)….<\/span><\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Getting <\/span>presents<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. Drinking tea with Mom<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. Doing good deeds<\/span><\/li>\n
      4. Playing mini golf<\/span><\/li>\n
      5. Building with blocks<\/span><\/li>\n
      6. Doing crafts with Mom<\/span><\/li>\n
      7. Making necklaces<\/span><\/li>\n
      8. Play on the swingset<\/span><\/li>\n
      9. Playing with marbles<\/span><\/li>\n
      10. Walking on a balance beam<\/span><\/li>\n
      11. Using silly putty<\/span><\/li>\n
      12. Cooking<\/span><\/li>\n
      13. Growing flowers<\/span><\/li>\n
      14. Going on walks<\/span><\/li>\n
      15. Collecting nature<\/span><\/li>\n
      16. Playing video games with friends<\/span><\/li>\n
      17. Holding rats<\/span><\/li>\n
      18. Bird watching<\/span><\/li>\n
      19. Reading picture books<\/span><\/li>\n
      20. Playing at the park<\/span><\/li>\n
      21. Using little people at Grandma & Grandpa’s<\/span><\/li>\n
      22. Eating macaroni and cheese<\/span><\/li>\n
      23. Doing flipsy-doodles (flipping upside down holding Daddy)<\/span><\/li>\n
      24. Sitting on Mama’s lap<\/span><\/li>\n
      25. Flint knapping<\/span>
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        I’ll answer for Alex (22 months)…
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        1. Dancing<\/span><\/li>\n
        2. Blowing bubbles<\/span><\/li>\n
        3. Hammering things<\/span><\/li>\n
        4. Playing "find the phone"<\/span><\/li>\n
        5. Making music<\/span><\/li>\n
        6. Climbing<\/span><\/li>\n
        7. Doing whatever his big brother and sisters are doing<\/span><\/li>\n
        8. Playing hide and seek<\/span><\/li>\n
        9. Eating snow<\/span><\/li>\n
        10. Throwing balls<\/span><\/li>\n
        11. Watching toddler videos on you-tube<\/span><\/li>\n
        12. Nursing<\/span><\/li>\n
        13. Drinking with a straw<\/span><\/li>\n
        14. Looking at picture books with Mom or Dad<\/span><\/li>\n
        15. Getting tickled<\/span><\/li>\n
        16. Tickling<\/span><\/li>\n
        17. Cuddling with Mama<\/span><\/li>\n
        18. Singing made up songs<\/span><\/li>\n
        19. Jumping while Victoria swings him<\/span><\/li>\n
        20. Riding on toy cars<\/span><\/li>\n
        21. Drawing <\/span><\/li>\n
        22. Doing the "ladies go to market" ride with Victoria<\/span><\/li>\n
        23. Going down slides<\/span><\/li>\n
        24. Taking baths<\/span><\/li>\n
        25. Getting kisses to make owies better<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          And from me…
          Things that make me happy to do with my kids….
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          1. Getting\/giving pedicures <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
          2. Reading really fun read-alouds<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
          3. Exploring new places<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
          4. Beach combing<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
          5. Doing altered books<\/span><\/li>\n
          6. Learning new things together<\/span><\/li>\n
          7. Road trips<\/span><\/li>\n
          8. Playing in the sprinkler<\/span><\/li>\n
          9. Puddle stomping<\/span><\/li>\n
          10. Gardening<\/span><\/li>\n
          11. Going to the zoo<\/span><\/li>\n
          12. Making home videos<\/span><\/li>\n
          13. Going to small town museums<\/span><\/li>\n
          14. Having picnics<\/span><\/li>\n
          15. Running in the rain<\/span><\/li>\n
          16. Whistling with blades of grass<\/span><\/li>\n
          17. Going on neighborhood treasure hunts<\/span><\/li>\n
          18. Bringing treats to neighbors<\/span><\/li>\n
          19. Playing whiffle ball with friends<\/span><\/li>\n
          20. Hiking<\/span><\/li>\n
          21. Feeding apples to the elk and bison in Redwood Falls<\/span><\/li>\n
          22. Watching them act in community theater<\/span><\/li>\n
          23. Having wacky fun like eating dessert without our hands<\/span><\/li>\n
          24. Learning new things from them<\/span><\/li>\n
          25. Hugs and kisses, all I want   \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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            My kids and I like to take part in Unplug Your kids challenges and we’ve missed them lately.  I was busy being miserably sick all last week but I saw today that the theme was happy and I thought that seemed too good of a theme to pass up!  So I’ve gathered my gang and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[103,120,243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}