{"id":278,"date":"2009-05-11T11:41:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/?p=278"},"modified":"2009-05-11T11:42:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T18:42:57","slug":"mk-nature-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/2009\/05\/11\/mk-nature-center\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Nature Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday we went to the MK Nature Center where they had an event for kids on migratory birds. Ava even got to see a live owl and a hawk up close (handled by a guy giving a presentation).<\/p>\n<p>But before we went there we took the dogs (we are dog-sitting) for a walk at the school near our house.<\/p>\n<p>Ava at the playground<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3567\/3522239226_9f5521fa1f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3321\/3522250384_21096aabe9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ava and &#8220;Momma&#8221; &#8211; she has been calling Jenn &#8220;Momma&#8221; a lot lately instead of Mommy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3554\/3522253842_69b678812a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She looks so old to me in this picture.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3577\/3521457275_cb9eb0c972.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ava loved getting a crane painted on her face and showing it off<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3543\/3522283006_fbc56c07f9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lots of wildlife to see.<\/p>\n<p>Fish under the bridge (trout)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3575\/3522287616_617a177944.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And fish viewing windows that Ava loved:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3353\/3521501867_4ca39fbd75.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We even saw a blue heron up close!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3587\/3521552573_2e7e0110a4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ava LOVES bugs, here she is catching ants to hold them<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3412\/3521581239_b1e809ab22.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ava bird watching (yes the binoculars are backwards AND upside-down)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3646\/3521614821_2b7de20bbb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ava holding a real (stuffed) wood pecker.  She wanted to &#8220;fly it&#8221;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3330\/3522922034_55fa47a564.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All in all, a very fun day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday we went to the MK Nature Center where they had an event for kids on migratory birds. Ava even got to see a live owl and a hawk up close (handled by a guy giving a presentation). But before we went there we took the dogs (we are dog-sitting) for a walk at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava","category-day-to-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottandjenn.com\/wordpress_sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}