{"id":1489,"date":"2010-12-31T11:53:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T19:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:53:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T19:53:47","slug":"siahs-gifts-for-the-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/siahs-gifts-for-the-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Siah&#8217;s Gifts for the Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josiah received a bit of help with his gifts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, honestly, I wanted to be able to give these to the babies and Jon and I worked on them together and in an effort to make things as easy as possible &#8211; we gave them to Siah to give to the babies.<\/p>\n<p>He helped to play with them before hand and also to wrap them up and well&#8230;&#8230;that counts doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>This year, it counts!  It just does.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/5310442284\/\" title=\"DSC_0055 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5281\/5310442284_c5285e9e31.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_0055\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I bought a wooden teething toy for Josiah when he was a baby.  I loved that it was all natural.  These are made from Maple  and are finished with Flaxseed Oil. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/5310443426\/\" title=\"DSC_0067 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5125\/5310443426_c03b13eca0.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_0067\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There are tons of these wooden teethers available for purchase on the internet and I wondered if we would be able to re-create some for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/5310444090\/\" title=\"DSC_0070 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5125\/5310444090_c535b3ef6a.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_0070\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We purchased a piece of hardwood and decided which designs that we wanted to  create and Jon started cutting.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/5309854633\/\" title=\"DSC_0077 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5090\/5309854633_8f6d39e910.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_0077\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I love this hippo.  I think he&#8217;s absolutely adorable.  I have been trying to come up with an elephant design as I LOVE elephants and I&#8217;d love to be able to design the cutest elephant.  I just don&#8217;t want it to have too many small pointy or sharp(ish) edges.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/5310445070\/\" title=\"DSC_0079 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5129\/5310445070_67c5c1b2a0.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_0079\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I also love these guitar&#8217;s.  <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/5310446328\/\" title=\"DSC_0089 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5121\/5310446328_98d0ab3c71.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_0089\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Which design is your favorite?  They were so much fun to make and I will definitely be giving these out as gifts in the future.<\/p>\n<p>I love that the babies get a kick out of sucking and chewing on these, but a bonus surprise has been that Xandra and her cousins have enjoyed playing with the camera &#038; keys; and that Josiah has loved playing with these also.  I love the fact that they are using their imaginations to play with these.  I also love that they are being used my children from infancy through to 12 years old.  I&#8217;m wanting to make more wooden toys to encourage them in creative and imaginative play.<\/p>\n<p>This gift was a lot of fun to create and even more fun to give. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josiah received a bit of help with his gifts&#8230; Well, honestly, I wanted to be able to give these to the babies and Jon and I worked on them together and in an effort to make things as easy as possible &#8211; we gave them to Siah to give to the babies. He helped to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/siahs-gifts-for-the-babies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Siah&#8217;s Gifts for the Babies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-crafty-goodness","category-siah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}