{"id":190,"date":"2011-11-29T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dion-mcpherson.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2011-11-29T00:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:06:00","slug":"companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dion-mcpherson.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mfQNyDaaGc8\/TtQiDglM9zI\/AAAAAAAADPs\/G7Z8GWJGsvQ\/s1600\/Pigtailed%2BClare%2Bwith%2Bbaby%2Bin%2Bsling.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mfQNyDaaGc8\/TtQiDglM9zI\/AAAAAAAADPs\/G7Z8GWJGsvQ\/s400\/Pigtailed%2BClare%2Bwith%2Bbaby%2Bin%2Bsling.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680202473701963570\" \/><\/a>Here are a couple of cute Clare stories from the last couple of days:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>For a few weeks now Clare has been requesting that we sing &#8220;the companion song.&#8221;  I had no idea what she was talking about but when I told her I didn&#8217;t know the song she gave me her best two-year-old &#8220;Duh Mom&#8221; look.  I asked Adam and at school if they knew this song, and none of them did.  Finally one night before bed J was singing Sweet Baby James to her as part of their bedtime ritual.  When he got to the line of &#8220;his horse and his cattle are his only companions&#8221; Clare got really excited and cried out &#8220;Companions!&#8221; at the top of her lungs.  So we finally solved the mystery of the &#8220;Companion Song.&#8221;  Now it&#8217;s been in heavy rotation in the McPherson family sing-a-longs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Yesterday I put up Clare&#8217;s play tent in her room and we got into it for a little make-believe play.  I followed her lead entirely and we &#8220;got in the car&#8221; to &#8220;drive to Old MacDonald&#8217;s Farm.&#8221;  While &#8220;driving&#8221; we talked about the chickens, goats and horses we were going to see.  Once we &#8220;got there&#8221; Clare led us out of her room to the living room where we sat on the ottoman and &#8220;rode the horse!&#8221;  This game, and all of the various pieces that went into it, were entirely Clare&#8217;s ideas and I just went along for the ride.  It was so fun to watch her imagination lead us through the different tasks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The other day J was trying to motivate Clare to get out the door in a timely manner by singing &#8220;Fly like an Eagle &#8211; To the Sea&#8221; like Steve Miller.  Now every time we are leaving the house Clare starts &#8220;flying&#8221; around &#8220;to the sea!!&#8221;  It&#8217;s actually served to be a pretty good motivator to get her ready (which can sometimes be a battle).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple of cute Clare stories from the last couple of days: For a few weeks now Clare has been requesting that we sing &#8220;the companion song.&#8221; I had no idea what she was talking about but when I told her I didn&#8217;t know the song she gave me her best two-year-old &#8220;Duh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dion-mcpherson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dion-mcpherson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dion-mcpherson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dion-mcpherson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dion-mcpherson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dion-mcpherson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dion-mcpherson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dion-mcpherson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dion-mcpherson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}