{"id":1033,"date":"2014-03-22T23:59:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T06:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2014-03-22T23:59:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T06:59:06","slug":"amelia-goes-safari-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/03\/22\/amelia-goes-safari-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Amelia goes safari-style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re at the Boat Playground today (45th &amp; Lincoln) hanging out with Mat, Mary, and Baby Reece. It&#8217;s quite fun to just jaunt around the Sunset with folks. We can pretty much walk anywhere (as long as it&#8217;s a San Francisco crowd) because nothing is more than a mile away.<\/p>\n<p>So off we went to the beach, but all of the babies fell asleep \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We ended up going to Trouble Coffee (cool spot, with a wacky staff), and then headed to the Boat Playground when the babies woke up.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone was doing their thing &#8211; Reece was eating (or maybe the Eltings had just left), Luka was flirting with older women in the sand, and Amelia went off into the grassy bit in the back.<\/p>\n<p>Then all of a sudden, Micky screams, &#8220;What&#8217;s Amelia doing? Quick. Stop her!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was stuck with Luka in a high up place, and off Micky ran. When we all got back together I found out that she&#8217;d pulled her pants down, squatted in the grass, and successfully peed. She then (since there are no bathrooms there) did it again right before we left (but this time in a less obvious spot).<\/p>\n<p>What a rock star she is!<\/p>\n<p>We went and had pizza for dinner, and then took the train home.<\/p>\n<p>Great family (&amp; friends) day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re at the Boat Playground today (45th &amp; Lincoln) hanging out with Mat, Mary, and Baby Reece. It&#8217;s quite fun to just jaunt around the Sunset with folks. We can pretty much walk anywhere (as long as it&#8217;s a San Francisco crowd) because nothing is more than a mile away. So off we went to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[64,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-gF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1084,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/04\/06\/this-week-in-review-13\/","url_meta":{"origin":1033,"position":0},"title":"This week in review","date":"April 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I wanted the \"This week in review\" post to become an opportunity to share a lot of photos, and just call it a day. I was all set for that too, and then the last two days happened. This weekend, my babies grew up before my eyes. 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