{"id":97531,"date":"2025-07-29T05:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/what-cute-things-do-your-kids-love-doing\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T05:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:23:16","slug":"what-cute-things-do-your-kids-love-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/what-cute-things-do-your-kids-love-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"What Cute Things Do Your Kids Love Doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-341857\">\n<div class=\"entry-content article-body\">\n<div class=\"hero-image hero-image-main hero-image-main3 \">\n<div class=\"one-one-ratio\">\n<div class=\"hero-retio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8192-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-image-hide=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2025\/07\/28\/what-cute-things-do-your-kids-love-doing\/img_8192\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-341860\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8192-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-341860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8192-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8192-362x483.jpg 362w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8192-680x907.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8192-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8192-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8192-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8192-1272x1696.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I became a mom, one of the most surprising feelings I wasn\u2019t prepared for was\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Feeling super excited about the things <em>my kids<\/em> are excited about. Truly. Growing up, I rarely babysat because the idea of stacking blocks or playing peek-a-boo sounded like a snoozefest. But the first moment I noticed my daughter Ella\u2019s eyes light up, back when she was three weeks old and discovered the ceiling fan in my parents\u2019 dining room, I was hooked. <\/p>\n<p>Now, four years later, I still feel a shiver down my spine when I see my son or daughter fall in a love with a new hobby. Here a few things they find magical these days\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Bubbles<br \/>Singing \u201cDo Re Mi\u201d from The Sound of Music<br \/>Climbing terrifyingly high play structures<br \/>Picking flowers<br \/>High fives<br \/>Mommy playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zeK19ypjknA\" target=\"_blank\">criss-cross applesauce<\/a> on their backs<br \/>Flashlights<br \/>Playing with Daddy\u2019s Allen wrench<br \/>Taking pictures with anyone\u2019s phone<br \/>Singing \u201cHead Shoulders Knees and Toes\u201d REALLY FAST<br \/>Counting the snails in the backyard after it rains<br \/>Making \u201cpotions\u201d<br \/>Playing waiter<br \/>Chocolate chips<\/p>\n<p data-bleed=\"1\" data-article-image=\"1\" data-article-image-position=\"1\" data-article-image-position1=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2025\/07\/28\/what-cute-things-do-your-kids-love-doing\/emiliano-smiling\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-341861\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Emiliano-Smiling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1392\" height=\"1044\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-341861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Emiliano-Smiling.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Emiliano-Smiling-644x483.jpg 644w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Emiliano-Smiling-680x510.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Emiliano-Smiling-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Emiliano-Smiling-1272x954.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Emiliano\u2019s new favorite thing \u2014 saying \u201ccheeeeese\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Re-evaluating the world through your child\u2019s eyes and finding a new sense of wonder in the little things, like jumping off a swing or wearing a pearl necklace to dinner, is intoxicating. It feels like you get a new chance at experiencing life, don\u2019t you think? And I have a feeling that it will get even better as they grow older.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What about you? What funny things are the kids in your life loving, saying or doing these days?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>P.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2024\/06\/17\/a-parenting-hack-i-stumbled-upon-this-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\">A parenting hack for older kids<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2011\/08\/15\/motherhood-mondays-a-babys-10-favorite-things\/\" target=\"_blank\">a baby\u2019s 10 favorite things<\/a>. <\/p>\n<section class=\"article-meta aside-meta\">\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2025\/07\/28\/what-cute-things-do-your-kids-love-doing\/#comments\"><\/p>\n<p><span>122<\/span> COMMENTS<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2025\/07\/28\/what-cute-things-do-your-kids-love-doing\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I became a mom, one of the most surprising feelings I wasn\u2019t prepared for was\u2026 Feeling super excited about the things my kids are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}