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Et Tu-tu, Bailey??

Honestly, friends, I didn’t think my DNA even contained pink.  Some pretty turquoise-ish colors, perhaps, but pink??  And don’t get me started on ballerina stuff.  Yes, I took ballet as a wee child, but my most vivid memory of my dance career is having an exceptionally runny nose during class and repeatedly wiping snot streaks on the long sleeves of my maroon leotard.  Awesome.

It is safe to say that the sparkly princess fairy dust frills of little girl-ness just wasn’t my bag.

So WHY, pray tell, does my daughter insist, through incessant grunts and whines, to wear this dang tu-tu at every given opportunity?  The itchy, stretchy thing was a hand-me-down from a neighbor.  As soon as Bailey sees it, she grabs it with both tiny fists and thrusts it into my lap, her eyebrows knit in urgency.  Yes, the first time I stretched it around her pudgy middle I about died from the cuteness.  But now, I am feeling a twinge concerned.  What’s next??  Dear heavens…am I going to have to learn how to play dolls?  I suppose I need to prepare myself for the very real possibility that Bailey might be girly.

Whoa.

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Hey, she’s chosen to pose with a baseball tee and a dog comb.  At least she’ll be a quirky girly-girl.  :)

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Pamela Telgenhoff, SceneOne PhotographyFebruary 5, 2009 - 9:23 am

This is just too cute…

[...] hand-me-down tu-tu with which Bailey had a brief obsession with about a year ago has been rediscovered.  She now insists that it is called a [...]

Mutts

I know that I don’t give them nearly enough credit, but these two dogs of mine are pretty darn sweet.

So here’s to you, Pearl and St. Arnold.  I know that I don’t say it often, because you are, say, licking my children in the mouth, or chewing up the brand new bed that I bought you, or vomiting on the rug, or running out the front door as I shout obscenities behind you, or pooping on the floor when it is wet outside, or eating the food off of Bailey’s walker tray, or barking like a maniac for no gosh darn reason and always during nap time, or refusing to just get out of my face for one stinking second whenever I sit on the floor, or (my personal fave) depositing multiple, pulpy bird corpses in the middle of the living room….  But in this moment, in this briefest of moments, as you sleep here at my feet, curled up together in a ball of fuzzy cuteness, I will go on the record and say,

“Good dogs”.

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ChrystalFebruary 1, 2009 - 10:57 pm

Our dogs drive me bonkers, as well. Even Tor commented on our dogs being annoying, which is BIG because in his eyes those pups usually can do no wrong.

Glad to see you getting your blog on at Jbo.

Jamie BurnettFebruary 3, 2009 - 11:01 am

Super cute doggies…. They look loved and so content!

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