{"id":1147,"date":"2009-02-14T21:09:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T12:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-02-14\/1147"},"modified":"2009-02-14T21:09:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T12:09:03","slug":"anthonys-first-solo-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-02-14\/1147","title":{"rendered":"Anthony’s First Solo Outing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 200 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/11, ISO 1100 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nQuick Trip to the Store<\/span>\nfor the first time, all by himself\n<\/div>\n\n
\n\n\nAnthony's Shopping List<\/span>\n\n\nReceipt<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

We ran out of bread this morning, so Anthony ran\nto the store to get some. It was his<\/span> first time to go out all by\nhimself.<\/p>\n\n

Things sort of started yesterday when we were both getting haircuts.\nWhile he was waiting for my cut to finish, I suggested<\/span> that he go to a\nnearby<\/span> bakery to pick out some bread for himself for today's breakfast. He'd never<\/span> gone out like that himself, but it was just a minute<\/span> away, so I\ngave<\/span> him some money and sent him out. He accomplished<\/span> his task well, and\nwas proud.<\/p>\n\n

So, he had his bread this morning, but I didn't<\/span> have any for myself. I thought<\/span> to build on yesterday's achievement, so suggested that he run to\nthe nearby 7-11 to pick some up for me. He was excited<\/span> about the prospect,\nso Fumie and I came<\/span> up with a few<\/span> things he should pick up for us. He drew up<\/span> a list,<\/span> shown at right:<\/p>

    \n\n
  • Bread   × 2<\/li>\n
  • Yogurt   × 1<\/li>\n
  • Drink   × 1<\/li>\n
  • Anthony's bread   1<\/li>\n
  • Small toy   1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

    I told him he could get a small toy, as a celebration<\/span> of his\naccomplishment.<\/p>\n\n

    We gave him money and a key, and as he headed out, Fumie and I moved<\/span> to\nthe veranda to catch a glimpse<\/span> of him.<\/p>\n\n

    We waited for a while, and a few minutes later he came marching back with\nbag in hand.<\/p>\n\n

    When he paid at the cash register, he forgot about the change and\nstarted to walk off, to which the checkout lady called after him with \u300c\u304a\u5ba2\u69d8\uff01\u304a\u5ba2\u69d8\uff01\u300d<\/span> (“Customer! Customer!”). It's lost in<\/span> translation how cute that is, those honorifics being used to a\nsix<\/span>-year-old. It's all the<\/span> more cute to us because we didn't see it, but\nrather, heard him recount it.<\/p>\n\n

    It was also sort of funny that during his short few-minute shopping\ntrip, he used the bathroom. Maybe he was nervous or it was just bad\ntiming... or, maybe he felt it was fun to make those decisions on his own.<\/p>\n\n

    We should have had “milk” on the list, because an hour later we ran out.\n“I'll go get some!”<\/i> he quickly volunteered. So he went<\/span>\nout a second<\/span> time, coming back with two one-liter cartons.<\/p>\n\n

    Our little baby is growing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Things sort of started yesterday when we were both getting haircuts. While he was waiting for my cut to finish, I suggested that he go to a nearby bakery to pick out some bread for himself for today's breakfast. He'd never gone out like that himself, but it was just a minute away, so I gave him some money and sent him out. He accomplished his task well, and was proud.<\/p>

    So, he had his bread this morning, but I didn't have any for myself. I thought to build on yesterday's achievement, so suggested that he run to the nearby [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}