Yesterday while Julia was playing with her toy food in her play kitchen, she started putting the fruit into the refrigerator and organizing the various pieces into rows. She couldn't seem to find her red apple, and asked me repeatedly if I had seen it, then finally located it near the doorway, remarking that it must have dropped when she was carrying her play fruit in from the other room. She then went back to organizing the different pieces of play food in order to find a place for the apple, and announced to me, "Mommy, do you know what this is called? It's called correcting the apple to the other fruit."
Yesterday was also the first time Julia tried to incorporate Madeleine into her pretend play; while they often "play" together (usually consisting of Julia talking in a high squeaky voice and grabbing parts of Madeleine's body a lot less gently than we would like), this was the first time Julia tried to include Madeleine in equal play, rather than taking on the roll of big sister entertaining the little sister. Madeleine was a baby in Julia's game of house, though unfortunately Madeleine would not really cooperate with the game. When Julia put a blanket over her and told her it was time to go night-night, Madeleine continued "crawling" (her odd version of crawling, that is) around to the point where the blanket slowly fell off of her back. Oh, well. It was still fun to see the beginnings of what, somewhere down the line, will be actual pretend play between the two girls.
And speaking of Madeleine, she has recently mastered the ability to sit up from a lying-down position. I love watching how easily she does it, although I don't really appreciate the new skill at 5 in the morning when she is repeatedly sitting up in her crib and then screaming for me. It was a lot easier for her to fall back asleep when she was already lying down...
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