Play Date

Inga's cousin, Ethan, came over Friday morning for a play date. These two have so much fun together. I have never seen such young toddlers actually play together instead of just next to each other. We spent most of the morning in the basement where they have free reign as opposed to upstairs where there are more rules about what you can and cannot play with.

They watched an episode of Sesame Street while eating morning snacks. Ethan had goldfish and I brought down Inga's bag of freeze dried fruit. After a few minutes, they had already traded snacks. 

Eating morning snacks and watching Sesame Street.

 They were sitting in the play house giggling and chatting away. It was very cute, but I ruined the moment when I tried to take a picture.

Ethan found the stack of outdoor pillows that go on the patio chairs. He thought this was so much fun. Inga came over to see what was so exciting and just looked at Ethan like, "Really? A stack of dirty pillows? I'm going back to the cars." 

They were so well behaved until after lunch when both needed naps. A play date with a 16 month old and 2 year old and there were no tears or screams, pretty successful, wouldn't you say?

Playing Dress Up

Inga loves to play dress up. She tries to put on any clothes she finds in laundry baskets, dressers, or closets. She found her party dress the other night and insisted on wearing it. 

She also loves hats, but she doesn't want to wear them. She wants Mommy and Daddy to wear the hats.  In this picture she is also wearing one of those baby headbands that lets strangers know the newborn is a girl. She never wore them as a baby since she's always had a full head of hair, but she found them the other night and put one on.

Fall Happenings

I am terrible at remembering to take pictures. Here are some pictures from the past month. 

Trick-or-treating with cousin Ethan. He was a lion. Inga was a toddler who outgrew her pumpkin costume too soon.

Inga's newest cousin, Zoey. Ethan's little sister was born a few hours after the above picture was taken. 

We now leave boxes out for Inga to play with. What's not to love about a box?

Guarding the bridge and sorting rocks. Such a multi-tasker.

What do you do after all the clean clothes are folded and put away? Get them back out to play in again.