What a fun summer we are off to. I am excited to get to spend the year at home with Maddie next year and all of the adventures that we will have. We have already gone swimming, gone on runs in our new jog stroller, played at the park and had music time. We are excited to add another friend to our play group as well. Starting this week I have started watching a friends daughter, Marley, part time. Marley is almost 7 months and the girls are already having a great time.
On our first day together Maddie wanted to show Marley all around the house. We showed her how to play the piano and Daddy's guitar. Miss Marley even gave it a try herself!
Sharing Mommy has been a bit of a challenge, but something that Maddie is learning to do. Since Maddie is so mobile its hard for her to understand that Mommy has to hold Marley and take her places when Maddie can just go. As you can see from the picture above we are creative with how we do things.
The girls are also working on sharing toys. The first day we had a lot of talks about playing nice and being careful when touching each other...(ie not pulling on hair and poking each other in the eyes) I think that Maddie has finally figured out that Marley is real and not a doll. She is being much more gentle and kind and often offers up toys for Marley to play with (however most of the time she takes them right back.....we are still working on that part of sharing).
Here are some pictures of Marley and Maddie trying to figure each other out a little bit.
Doesn't this one look like they are up to no good? I have a feeling that I will be seeing a LOT of this over the next year.
New Best Friends. I can't wait to see what becomes of their friendship and time together as they grow up.
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