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Navigation<\/strong><\/p>\n Pumpkin loves to be a navigator when we’re in the car, and often provides us with directions based on what she sees the indicator lights do!\u00a0 As always, I try to encourage her efforts whenever possible…<\/p>\n One day, as my wife was backing the car into our parking slot, Pumpkin started voicing helpful directions asking her to come a little more, little more, little more, stop!\u00a0 Here’s what happened next:<\/p>\n Papa: Pumpkin, you’ve become an excellent navigator.\u00a0 Good job!<\/p>\n Pumpkin: That’s because I practice, Papa.\u00a0 You should also do that!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now, you know.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Ulta Pulta<\/strong><\/p>\n One Thursday, Pumpkin had a holiday in school on account of their Annual Day celebrations, and ended up waking up early anyway.\u00a0 Here’s what I overheard during a telephonic conversation between Pumpkin and her grandma, that morning…<\/p>\n Pumpkin: Grandma, you know it’s all “ulta pulta” (topsy turvy)?<\/p>\n Pumpkin:\u00a0When it’s a school day, and I’m supposed to wake up early, I wake up late.<\/p>\n Pumpkin: And, when it’s a holiday, and I don’t have to get up early, I get up early!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n How do you deal with that?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Navigation Pumpkin loves to be a navigator when we’re in the car, and often provides us with directions based on what she sees the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wonder-years"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}