{"id":12073,"date":"2013-04-02T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T19:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momservations.wordpress.com\/?p=12073"},"modified":"2013-04-02T12:20:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T19:20:38","slug":"mommy-and-baby-girl-poppin-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/02\/mommy-and-baby-girl-poppin-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy and Baby Girl Poppin’ Tags"},"content":{"rendered":"

Momservation: <\/b>There is no sweeter reward for years of exhaustive childrearing than to hear a daughter say, \u201cMom, let\u2019s go shopping!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Scan6_0006\"<\/a>Baby Girl Whitney turns 12 this week. It\u2019s hard to fathom that it\u2019s been a dozen years since I christened her Itty Bitty Whitty Little Girl So Pretty (which though pretty, she was never really itty bitty at 9 lbs 2 ounces and 23 inches long\u2014but Lunker wasn\u2019t very lyrical).<\/p>\n

Now my Itty Bitty Whitty stands only 4 inches shorter than me and is gaining fast to make me the shortest person in the family. Just as we realized she could fit in my shoes, she outgrew them. And if I suddenly developed a taste for Abercrombie<\/a>, American Eagle<\/a>, and Aeropostale <\/a>we could wear the same clothes (taste meaning a size 0 waist).<\/p>\n

\u201cPreteen\u201d just doesn\u2019t seem like an accurate label for Whitney anymore with her looks, maturity, and above average sarcasm (her poor older brother constantly buzzes right into her witty retorts\u2014a pestering fly into her articulate web). Becoming an official teenager next year will just be a formality.\u00a0\"Whit<\/a><\/p>\n

Seeing my Baby Girl maturing so rapidly often brings stinging tears to my eyes and choked back sobs of nostalgia for when she truly was just a baby girl. But when I asked Whitney what she wanted for her 12th<\/sup> birthday I couldn\u2019t hold back the tears any longer:<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s go shopping, Mom. I want a day at the mall, just you and me, shopping,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

I sobbed ugly crying face tears of joy.<\/p>\n

Forget the precious infant years, the adorable toddler years, the precocious school girl years! THIS is why mothers give birth to daughters! For a shopping companion! For an enthusiastic shopping partner who says, \u201cI can\u2019t live without these shoes! You can never have too many cute jeans! Oh my God, you have to buy that, it looks fantastic on you!\u201d<\/p>\n

So Baby Girl and I, in the infamous words of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis,\u00a0are gonna go pop some tags\u00a0(their song\u00a0Thrift Shop<\/i><\/a>\u00a0kills me)! A shopping companion born! And while Baby Girl\u2019s poppin\u2019 tags off clothes from Forever 21<\/a> I\u2019ll be popping tags from their jewelry because that\u2019s all that fits me there! But who cares! We\u2019ll laugh about it over a Cilantro Lime Chicken Salad at the Nordstrom<\/a> Caf\u00e9 before heading to try on ridiculously expensive shoes!<\/p>\n

Ooooo, I can\u2019t wait until next year when she can wear make-up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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