{"id":219,"date":"2010-05-10T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/kenga-visits-shedd\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:22:34","slug":"kenga-visits-shedd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/kenga-visits-shedd\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenga visits the Shedd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most important person in Charlie’s life is her Pepto Bismol pink penguin, “Kenga.” For those of you who are regular blog readers, I’m sure you’ve seen her: Pink feet sticking out from the dentist’s chair; Sharing a place at the dining room table; Wings flying through the air on a Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

We’ve been having a major discussion in our household this week: Could Kenga survive a trip through the wash? To say that the penguin is “weathered” is a great understatement. I can<\/em> appreciate her current state (I’m not heartless!), but when pieces of (what I like to call) Emergency Costco Lollipop got stuck in her fur, I knew it was time for an intervention.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to Mother’s Day and our decision to hit the Shedd<\/a> for one last weekend family day before both Charlie and Ella head off to Texas. The very first time Charlie laid eyes on Kenga at the Shedd Aquarium gift shop, I knew it was love at first sight. She was 18 months old at the time and had yet to attach herself to a “lovie.” Since that time, Kenga has become the most important “person” in her young life.<\/p>\n

You might ask what would happen if some tragedy befell our dear Kenga? Well, the last chance I had to buy a back-up Kenga, I decided to pass — thinking that Charlie’s interest in Kenga would run its course. Needless to say, Charlie now takes that stuffed animal everywhere she goes — and to my great dismay, the Shedd has now replaced all those<\/em> Kengas with updated ones that have more cartoonish faces and longer wings. Plan foiled. I walked around yesterday with a pang in my stomach, wondering how we would survive a loss so great. After taking a spin with Charlie in the gift shop, new Kenga (NK) came home with us — we’re going to keep her for emergencies.<\/p>\n

The good news is that I snaked old Kenga (OK) out of Charlie’s crib for a quick spin through the gentle cycle, and am happy to report that a certain penguin still has all of her flippers and toes.<\/p>\n

I guess for now I will just have to rest in the knowledge that “OK” is no longer sticky from lollipop juice. And if we do have a need for “NK,” she is waiting, willing and able.<\/p>\n

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