The One with the Baby Maned Wolf

My children are on a Go Diego Go (as in Dora the Explorer's cousin Diego) watching stint. They have shows they periodically only want to watch and since we don't have cable they can only watch shows we have on DVD. Well Diego is one of those shows and my kids just love it. I mean they sit on the couch and yell the answers to Diego's questions at the TV (in English and sometimes Spanish mind you)... it is pretty funny to witness.

So today's episode was titled Baby Maned Wolf and it was all about how the littlest baby wolf left its mommy and oh no Diego had to rescue it. When all was said and done the wolf pup is safe back home with its mommy and siblings. Great job animal rescuers!

It is now time for us to get ready to go... as I turn off the TV Eliann asks me, "Mommy can I pretend to be the baby maned wolf?" Let me tell you what this really means in Eliann's world of pretend: Mommy can I pick an outfit to wear that most resembles a manned wolf as we get ready to go? So I say, "Sure but what does a baby maned wolf look like?" She responds, "Well its kind of brown and furry." So I let her go show me what she thinks would best resemble a baby maned wolf. She pulls out a heavy and somewhat furry looking winter coat which is of course totally inappropriate as its like 80 degrees outside and we are heading to the park to run around.

"Eliann it is too hot outside to wear that."

"Oh... but mommy I really want to look like a baby maned wolf."

"Well you said that a maned wolf is brown (as I start looking through the brown section of her hanged closet clothes for a brown outfit mommy would approve). How about this? It is brown and has a sparkly necklace (I through in the sparkle comment to distract her because she likes sparkles on her clothes)."

"Mommy (in a totally frustrated voice) Do you think a baby maned wolf would have a sparkly necklace on?"

"Well it might if I adopted it and bought it a sparkly collar to wear."

"So the necklace is really a collar?"

"Yes!"

"Okay Mommy! I will need to put white leggings on underneath it because maned wolfs have white fur that comes up their legs."

"Okay Eliann."

The conversations I have to have with my little lady daily just crack me up. Oh and when she was all done getting dressed she hands me this black cord looking thing and she says "Can you help me put this on?" I was like "What is this?" She says "Its to put on my collar so you can take me for a walk." A quick veto of that idea and we were off to our play date at the park.


This is the outfit she agreed to wear. Haha... all that talk about a baby maned wolf for this outfit?! Yes that is how I have to talk to my daughter on a daily basis in order to get her to comply quickly. Here comes David right behind her too... he is wearing buzz pajama pants, a buzz shirt and a Super Why cape... no he did not go to that park wearing that.