Playing Pretend

Skylar: "Momma, should we pretend to go bye-bye?"

Mom: "No, Skylar, lets actually get in the car and go to the YMCA."

Skylar: "But... I want to PRETEND to go the YMCA."

Oh the world of a 2 year old and her imagination is incredible. Skylar got a kitchen for christmas and has been pretending to make meals in it day in and day out. Its been well worth the money already! If you come over for a visit, plan on having a meal of a hotdog sandwich with fries, a vat of soup, and coffee thats really hot. Yum.

My aunt Janelle sent Skylar a snow white costume, which she loves. She immediately had to put it on and dig out 7 baby dolls to be her dwarfs. They were lined up on our couch for 3 days! Shes never seen the movie (damn those disney people and their silly special releases... grrr.) but I've told her the story so shes invented a game of pretend. Thanks, Janelle, for the costume. She will also be wearing it to Disney on Ice this weekend. Woo Hoo!

My favorite game of pretend is "going to the beach!" We were out at the cabin for new years, and she was playing with her beach stuff inside. She knew she couldn't actually go down to the lake and go swimming, so she was sitting in her blow up boat, pretending to be down at the beach. Of course, she had to bring Bianca with her. B was a good sport to sit inside a blow up boat! This photo just cracked me up!