{"id":6668,"date":"2011-08-08T19:36:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T02:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:39:52","slug":"the-queendom-of-tiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2011\/08\/08\/the-queendom-of-tiny\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queendom of Teeny-Tiny"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past couple of months, Bean has fallen in love with teeny tiny toys. Miniature dolls — Lalaloopsy, Strawberry Shortcake, Squinkies (OMG Squinkies!!!), and miniature accessories are the rage. For example, I came across this flower fairy tea party set up on the sofa in Daddy’s spot this afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Here is Bean playing:<\/p>\n

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This is a close-up of her hand (to show scale) setting the table:<\/p>\n

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And a close-up of the teeny tiny cups:<\/p>\n

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Another party from this morning (notice the buttons — they make handy plates):<\/p>\n

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The other day, Bean created an ocean with a blue scarf and proceeded to have a huge party on the beach next to it. Then baby got in the water and floated away, and then there was a shark attack! She needed saving, so everyone came to her aid:<\/p>\n

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She also has numerous (100+) plastic animals she plays with. Today the barn became a home for the tigers and a lion, plus a cat or two. The hand-knit hat that my Gramma Leola knit for me as a child was their bed, and the mittens were sleeping bags for other friends:<\/p>\n

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One little tiger wandered out and got lost:<\/p>\n

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And when Bean is not busy playing with teeny tiny toys, she practices her back float…<\/p>\n

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…and spends time reading (mostly looking at pictures and telling herself the story):<\/p>\n

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In the past couple of months, Bean has fallen in love with teeny tiny toys. Miniature dolls — Lalaloopsy, Strawberry Shortcake, Squinkies (OMG Squinkies!!!), and miniature accessories are the rage. For example, I came across this flower fairy tea party set up on the sofa in Daddy’s spot this afternoon. Here is Bean playing: This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,34,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13526,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions\/13526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}