{"id":617,"date":"2008-09-16T19:11:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T00:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=617"},"modified":"2008-09-16T19:11:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T00:11:58","slug":"mommy-and-mc-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Mommy and MC time…"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my most favorite times of the day is when I pick up Mary Clare from Ms. Susan’s house. Mary Clare and I have a bit of Mommy & MC time alone before the chaos begins. (Which is when I pick McCanless up from school at 2:30!)<\/p>\n

Mary Clare is growing so fast and learning so much every day. I love watching her explore and discover her world. Today, I was in the kitchen unloading the dishwasher while she was in the playroom. She heard me open it, and came running. For some reason she loves to climb in it! She rounded the corner of the kitchen wearing one of McCanless’ dress-up hats, which she does so often. I laughed and decided to follow her around a bit with my camera. Here is what happened…<\/p>\n

\nShe thought I was chasing her and took off laughing and headed into her bedroom. <\/div>\n

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She loves to play peek-a-boo and was crouching below our “tub-O-babies” and popping up to scare<\/em> me. Notice her two new front teeth. She now has three on the bottom and five on top and one huge tooth coming in the back. (Mel says we have “orally challenged” children. I think it looks like she is going to have that McCanless gap!) He also thinks it is a bit humorous that my most recent obsession, The Twilight Saga, a book series, is all about vampires, something I’ve never read about until my child began to resemble one!<\/p>\n

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\nShe decided to continue playing with Mommy and hide behind the bed.<\/div>\n

\"MC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

We played for a while then I wanted her to show off for me a bit. I know she doesn’t talk much, but she knows a ton of words. She continues to clap and point when she wants something and will even sign a few words like more<\/em> and thank-you<\/em>. Here, I asked her to love her baby. She walked right over to the tub, grabbed a baby, gave her a big hug and one of those wide open Mary Clare smacks right on the face. <\/div>\n

\"MC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

“Mary Clare, where is the baby’s eye?”<\/div>\n

\"MC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

“Where is Emmie?”<\/div>\n

\"MC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\n“Where is the light?” (Apparently, Emmie knows English, too.)<\/div>\n

\"MC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Clare loves her books and wanted me to read to her for a while. After I read this book, she sat down in her chair and flipped through it herself. I asked her to show me the yellow circle and she pointed right to it. I guess she’ll eventually talk when she wants to. I’ve learned that this is how my baby girl likes to do things. Nothing is ever as I expect, it is always her own way and in her own time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my most favorite times of the day is when I pick up Mary Clare from Ms. Susan’s house. Mary Clare and I have a bit of Mommy & MC time alone before the chaos begins. (Which is when I pick McCanless up from school at 2:30!) Mary Clare is growing so fast and […]<\/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-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}