{"id":11581,"date":"2014-01-08T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T21:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=11581"},"modified":"2014-01-08T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T21:42:03","slug":"unexpected-free-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=11581","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected free time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have two hours to kill this afternoon, unexpectedly.&nbsp; I thought a blog post was in order. :-)<\/p>\n<p>I signed Lex up for a Lego Robotics class that started today. The class is for ages 9-14, so I had to get an age exception for him, but he was excited and I was interested in getting him involved in some extracurricular activities.&nbsp; Eve and I dropped Lex off and he immediately settled in at a desk.&nbsp; There are nine other kids in the class with him.&nbsp; After a few minutes, Eve and I decided to wander around the art gallery and figure out what to do with ourselves for the duration.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>This is a gallery that I took the kids to a few times a <a href=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=320\">long ago<\/a>.&nbsp; Eve and I went for a walk and I was going to show her the art studio. As we walked down the hallway a woman stepped out and asked if we were there for the Pour.Drip.Spin class.&nbsp; I said nope, just visiting.&nbsp; She started talking about the class and Eve got excited.&nbsp; Apparently the class is for 5-8 year olds, so I left her.&nbsp; I went down to the office and registered her for the class while she found herself an apron.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wpid-IMG_20140108_161933.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20140108_161933.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wpid-IMG_20140108_161933.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So here I am with an hour remaining to entertain myself.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sitting outside his classroom and laughing at myself. I have been frustrated with the amount of screen time the kids have had lately, now here I am paying good money to have Lex AIT in a dark room, in front of a computer!&nbsp; I had envisioned more of the group Lego building activities, nor so much the programming activities.&nbsp; Silly me.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be curious to talk to Lex at the end of class, and three days later, about his thoughts. From what I&#8217;m hearing it sounds like they are walking through how to use the program, something Lex has already been doing for years. I was worried he would be too young and therefore behind, but now I&#8217;m wondering if he&#8217;s going to be bored!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Next week I&#8217;ll bring a book, or some UVEI homework!&nbsp; Today I spent the day in kindergarten. It was fun, but definitely different!&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t have to open a single lunch or tie a single shoe in 5th grade. :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two hours to kill this afternoon, unexpectedly.&nbsp; I thought a blog post was in order. :-) I signed Lex up for a Lego Robotics class that started today. The class is for ages 9-14, so I had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=11581\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11582,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions\/11582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}