Play-dates

The girls had a lot of play-dates this week, which was fun for them, and, on the occasions where the moms came along as well, nice for me too. Here is a synopsis of the highlights of this week's get-togethers:

*Monday's play-date with Baby Anja: watching the two babies standing in the middle of the living room, staring at each other in fascination, both bobbling around back and forth trying to keep their balance while still staring intently at each other.

*Wednesday's play date with Julia's school friend, Arianna: seeing two kids with gaping mouths watching Dora Saves the Snow Princess, yelling out the answers together. Especially funny was the point in which Dora asked (yelled) "DO YOU SEE THE PURPLE BERRIES?" and Julia pointed and said, "There!" followed by Arianna believing her pointing aim was better by correcting Julia: "No, right there!" I also discovered during this play-date that Julia is not the only one with irrational fears:
ME: Why don't you girls go play up in Julia's room for a little while?
ARIANNA: Uh, no, because there might be a werewolf up there.
JULIA: Yeah, and I'm scared of the blue tarantula up there.

So they stayed downstairs to play, where there were no werewolves OR blue tarantulas.

*Friday's play-date with Ben and Adriana: every time Adriana (who is a year and a half) and Madeleine crossed paths, they felt the need to have this exchange:

ADRIANA: (pointing at Madeleine) Baby.
MADELEINE: (pointing at Adriana) Baby.

Then they would crawl/toddle off on their separate ways.

Julia and Ben had a lot of fun doing imaginary play together. First they did "Shoe By Shoe" to the beach, wearing their high heels, fancy lace hats, and carrying their purses over their arms. Following their trip to the beach was a trip up into space, on which two of Julia's babies (Baby Julia and Baby Dashiell) accompanied them. Baby Julia and Baby Dashiell are really good floaters in space, according to Julia. She "floated" them around as if she were in slow motion, and at one point Baby Julia fell to the ground head-first. It was okay, though. She just fell onto the moon. (I guess the moon's gravity must have drawn her down out of her floating state.) They finished the imaginary play off by pretending to be two mommies having a play-date with their babies, which, given the fact that my friend Emily and I were two mommies having a play-date with our kids, made for four mommies and a whole slew of babies having a grand old time together.