Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Playing with the big kids


Fishing
Originally uploaded by Temmerling.
Sunday Kristin, Julia, and I took dinner over to our friends who just had their second little one. Their daughter, Big Sis, is getting closer to three years old. She is so excited to be a big sister, and I can see a difference in her self presentation already. She's helpful and bossy and paternalistic. It's so cute.

Anyway, she wanted to play a game and asked me to play this fishing game with her. Julia was sitting on the floor and when she showed an intersest in the game Big Sis handed her a fishing pole and we all sat and tried to play it together. Julia had such a great time. She really loves playing with older kids. We think it's because she's got older kids surrounding her at her care-provider's place. All those older kids playing with her and talking to her and singing to her and just generally loving her company. They're helping our little girl grow up a bit faster than she would on her own. And she loves them for it.

Posted by Trista @ 1:22 PM