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<\/a><\/p>\nMy beautiful princesses.<\/p>\n
…and speaking of, this is not Mary Clare’s Halloween costume.\u00a0 She wore this dress to school today.\u00a0 For a couple of months now, she has only wanted to be “pink” for Halloween, so we decided on Pinkalicious, a character from her favorite book.\u00a0 Gone are the days of my grand plans of coordinated baby girls.\u00a0 They are way too strong willed for that.\u00a0 This year, I tried desperately to get them to be a pirate and mermaid, and for a few weeks when McCanless insisted on being Miley Cyrus, I even thought about dressing Mary Clare as Hannah Montanna!\u00a0 Finally, McCanless suggested a princess.\u00a0 At first, I thought it wasn’t extrememly creative or exciting. \u00a0 They wear their dress-up Princess clothes on a daily basis. But you know what?\u00a0 How much longer are my baby girls going to want to twirl in pouffy dresses and wear crowns for Halloween?\u00a0 I knew Mary Clare would probably not appreciate a coordinating frog costume when big sister got to twirl in her pink dress anyway, so Princess and Pinkalicious it is!\u00a0 McCanless and I found a gorgeous pink sequin dress, fancy shoes , a real crown and jewels for her costume, and I have yet to show Miss Pinkalicious her equally as twirly and new pinkalicious attire!\u00a0 I knew she would wear it out before Halloween! <\/em> Two twirly, whirly, pinkalicious dresses for my two pinkalicious princesses!<\/p>\nOn a different subject, after calling week after week every doctor’s office in SC including MUSC, I was finally able to make appointments for their H1N1 Vaccinations at our local Health Department!!\u00a0 No lines!\u00a0 Hooray!! I am thrilled! We are all now protected against regular seasonal flu and<\/em> H1N1 Flu!!\u00a0 (Well, Mel and I have to wait for the H1N1 Vaccination, but at least the girls have it!)\u00a0 Mel was busy, as usual, so I took the girls myself.\u00a0 Mary Clare took her stick like a champ, only cried for a second, grabbed her Dora sticker and jumped out of my lap.\u00a0 McCanless immediately stopped smiling when the nurse said, “You’re next.”\u00a0 She had no clue.\u00a0 Mary Clare began repeating exactly what McCanless had been preaching to her.\u00a0 “It won’t hurt.\u00a0 It will only be a minute.\u00a0 Don’t cry.”<\/p>\nMcCanless screamed, begged, pleaded and screamed more.\u00a0 She begged me, the nurse, and Mary Clare to take her home.\u00a0 “I saw the needle!\u00a0 You can’t do this!” \u00a0 The nurse asked me if I had a drama queen on my hands.\u00a0\u00a0 I had to pull her pants down, which was horrific to McCanless, and hold her wrists tight while she screamed bloody murder.\u00a0 When I called Mel about an hour and a half later after dinner, after baths, she was still screaming.\u00a0 She is furious with me, but she is protected!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
McCanless asked me what Jack’s middle name was.\u00a0 When I asked, “Jack Who?”\u00a0 She replied, “You know!\u00a0 Jack O.\u00a0 What does the O. stand for?” Pouting because she “wanted a turn!” …then she certainly wasn’t a fan of the squishy insides of Mr. Jack. Later that night, Mary Clare was amazed at the candle inside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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