{"id":3584,"date":"2010-03-23T13:14:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2010-03-23T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:16:17","slug":"oh-my-sweet-mary-clare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=3584","title":{"rendered":"Oh, My Sweet Mary Clare…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where are you?\u00a0 Maybe I have been oblivious to the baby girl who morphed into a toddler over night, but for some reason it smacked me in the face yesterday afternoon.\u00a0 Quite literally.\u00a0 Mary Clare is a full-blown 2 1\/2 year old.\u00a0 Wow, do I remember saying to so many other “rookie” mothers, “Age three was WAY more difficult than age two for McCanless and me.”\u00a0 (As if I had turned into a pro after living through McCanless’ third year.)\u00a0 I don’t know if it is a girl thing or what, but they just gain so much independence and want to do everything “all by myself” and want their needs met immediately. \u00a0 I thought it was an “only” child\/first born\/strong willed thing with McCanless.\u00a0 Maybe it is just a three year old thing.\u00a0 Nevertheless, it is here. Once again.\u00a0 To say that Mary Clare is defiant right now would be a huge understatement.\u00a0 She\u00a0 wrinkles her face and nose, she grabs and shouts and throws, hits, bites,\u00a0 and scratches when things don’t go her way.\u00a0 Which happens to be quite often.\u00a0 Up until last night, it was a bit comical, cute even.\u00a0 I would laugh and pick her up proclaiming her my cute “little bossy one.”\u00a0 Now, I realize the damage that that <\/em>caused.\u00a0 Yikes…<\/p>\n

I guess I just better suck it up, put on my big girl panties and deal with her little “bossiness,” cute chubby cheeks and whispy, golden, flyaway locks and all.\u00a0 It is high-time she started wearing her own<\/em> big girl panties!\u00a0 Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where are you?\u00a0 Maybe I have been oblivious to the baby girl who morphed into a toddler over night, but for some reason it smacked me in the face yesterday afternoon.\u00a0 Quite literally.\u00a0 Mary Clare is a full-blown 2 1\/2 year old.\u00a0 Wow, do I remember saying to so many other “rookie” mothers, “Age three […]<\/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-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","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=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}