{"id":8033,"date":"2012-10-09T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/09\/clowning-around"},"modified":"2012-10-09T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T17:31:00","slug":"clowning-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2012\/10\/09\/clowning-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Clowning Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

One Sunday after church I decided to use the leftover pancakes to bring a new tradition into our family from my childhood: the clown pancake. Now, when I was young the clown pancake was eaten only on special occasions at “Carousel” restaurant where my uncle worked. I remember the excitement of the clown pancake in all it’s sugary goodness and presentation and hoped to bring such joy to my children. So I introduced the clown pancake one Sunday for lunch:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Look how thrilled she was!!!\u00a0<\/div>\n
I promise it was a hit (just a 3 y\/o picture moment). <\/div>\n
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\u00a0I told her to say “clown pancakes!!!” We all giggled about the varied translations of that phrase.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Giddy.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0And this one makes faces too. hehe.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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So with the success of the clown pancake, I decided to repeat the affair the next day, but offer personalized decorating. I put on the whipped creme for the facial features and the girls decorated accordingly. This time I offered more fruit and made the rule that all the decorations needed to be consumed. No one complained. \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Still giddy.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Another face. hehe.\u00a0<\/div>\n
(sigh) My three year old and her personality. =)<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Some ingredients never made it to the decorating part.\u00a0 <\/div>\n
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\u00a0The extent of Abi’s decorating.\u00a0<\/div>\n
And the banana nose only lasted on the clown’s face for .5 seconds.\u00a0<\/div>\n
My little girl loves her some bananas!<\/div>\n
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Scary face, but proud of her decorating.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Thus has begun our tradition of clown pancakes to be brought out on fun family nights and as rewards for good behavior. <\/div>\n
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Mmmmmmmmm.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One Sunday after church I decided to use the leftover pancakes to bring a new tradition into our family from my childhood: the clown pancake. Now, when I was young the clown pancake was eaten only on special occasions at “Carousel” restaurant where my uncle worked. I remember the excitement of the clown pancake in… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,42,2,22,32,37,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-a-mom","category-cooking-er-something","category-enjoying-life","category-joy","category-the-middlest","category-the-oldest","category-tricks-of-the-trade","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}