About ten minutes after I put Avery to bed the other night she called me back in her room. “Mommy,” she asked in serious voice, “how do you become a princess or queen?” Somewhat stumped at how to answer, I said that\u00c2\u00a0 one way is to be born into a royal family. “But how does that happen?” she responded. It’s sort of hard to explain, I told her, before we had the following exchange:<\/p>\n
M: “Take Elsa and Anna. They were princesses because their mom and dad were the queen and king. They’re not real, but -” -M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About ten minutes after I put Avery to bed the other night she called me back in her room. “Mommy,” she asked in serious voice, “how do you become a princess or queen?” Somewhat stumped at how to answer, I said that\u00c2\u00a0 one way is to be born into a royal family. “But how does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-86-two-kids-oct-dec-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21208"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21232,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208\/revisions\/21232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA, interrupting me: “Yes, they are. They’re at Disneyland, and Disneyland is real.”
\nM: “Oh, yes… You’re right. I had forgotten that.”
\nA: “And Elsa and Kristof came to my birthday party. So they’re definitely<\/em> real.”<\/p>\n