“I just want to touch him all over.” Speaking of her Elf on a Shelf, Elfie. I guess the rule about not being able to touch him is driving her crazy!<\/p>\n
The girls, Mel and I were at Wendy’s a few nights ago about to order dinner. (Long day, gymnastics, tired children and tired mommy=no cooks in the kitchen that night.) I turned to McCanless and asked her what she would like to eat. “Chicken McNuggets<\/em> made with real white meat, please.”<\/p>\n At that same meal, Mel mentioned to me how tiny the hamburger patties were. I said, “What do you expect? It’s fast food.” McCanless turned to me and said, “It’s not fast food, it’s Wendy’s.”<\/p>\n Needless to say, she’ll not be allowed to watch television over Christmas break. (I swear she doesn’t watch THAT much television at all!)<\/p>\n Also had to mention this…<\/p>\n My pantry door panels are painted with chalkboard paint. McCanless often leaves drawings or scribbles for me. This week, I saw her first and last name written with “5000in8” above it. I asked her what she was trying to spell. She looked at me as if she was completely exasperated with me and said, “MOM, I wrote my name. See you spell it like this, M-C-C-A-N-L-E-S-S-P-E-N-N-I-N-G-T-O-N, and I wrote the date, two thousand IN eight.” (She had the 2 backward.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I just want to touch him all over.” Speaking of her Elf on a Shelf, Elfie. I guess the rule about not being able to touch him is driving her crazy! The girls, Mel and I were at Wendy’s a few nights ago about to order dinner. (Long day, gymnastics, tired children and tired mommy=no […]<\/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-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}