I’ve often mentioned here on the blog that I wonder what in the world we did before having children. I imagine we slept through the night in our own bed, never stepped barefoot on a passy, Barbie shoe, used gum, juice box, etc., never been “pottied” on in the bed, tub or swimming pool.<\/p>\n
We had quiet dinners out with no drinks spilled, tantrums over ketchup touching something, or the need to leave quickly because of one or more of the following: vomit, no diapers, no milk, ruined outfits, “fits” or sleeping child. We didn’t have to juggle our life with swimming lessons, dance classes, grandparents, birthday parties, cardiology apts, playgroups, well-checks at doctors offices that take 3 hours. It probably only took me about 30 minutes to get out of the house, now that I mention it. We even had time to devote to our two dogs. I think they are still alive.<\/p>\n
I was thinking about all of this last night as we ate dinner at the local Mexican restaurant in town. We met Mel there after swimming lessons that I thought I was late for but proudly sent McCanless in at just 5 after 5 on the dot! I made it…almost on time! Until I realized that she was the only one not in a swim diaper! Wrong class. UGGH! So, we waited until 5:30, when her real class actually began. Mary Clare was soaked after crawling around on the side of the pool for half an hour, but we decided to go eat anyway. First Mistake.<\/p>\n
After McCanless decided to be a big girl and not use the top to her drink, she spilled it all over Mary Clare which led to a massive scream and bawling for quite some time…both girls. As Mel cleaned the mess, and I grabbed Mary Clare to comfort her, she pulled my drink all over me and her. Again, scream and bawl. McCanless then decided to stand on Mary Clare’s high chair and sing at the top of her lungs, “Gonna tell you….what you can do to my love, My LOVE…Alllllllll night.” What? How does she know that<\/em> song!<\/p>\n …and we hadn’t even ordered yet! Mel and I just looked at each other and laughed. What else can<\/em> you do? We managed to order, eat quickly and get home just in time for a bath, in which Mary Clare went poo. Can it get any better than this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve often mentioned here on the blog that I wonder what in the world we did before having children. I imagine we slept through the night in our own bed, never stepped barefoot on a passy, Barbie shoe, used gum, juice box, etc., never been “pottied” on in the bed, tub or swimming pool. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}