Playdates

A little over a week ago we were hanging out after a basketball game when Georgia made a comment to Morgan about it not being much longer before she and Luke could start having sleepovers. That sparked an idea in my head. Yes, they are probably too young for sleepovers, however, they are definitely not too young for an extended playdate. Since this weekend was Valentine's Day I proposed the idea to Georgia that we take turns watching each other's kid so we could both finally have a "date night" with our husband's. We both decided that since the kids go to bed early and probably wouldn't just fall asleep anywhere that we would plan early afternoon dates. David and I took Saturday. We dropped Morgan off around 3 and headed into town for our "date." We spent the majority of our date (like we do most dates nowadays) shopping for Morgan. I had been searching for weeks trying to find her a googlie head band with hearts on them. After searching for a while we decided to give up and head to dinner at the Macaroni Grill. After dinner we headed back to pick up Morgan. She had had a blast hanging out with Lucas and we had enjoyed a nice break.

The next day was our day to stay home with "the kids." I went by to pick up Luke around 1:45 (he was supposed to still be napping). Since he was already awake we headed down to our house to play. Morgan was SO excited to have Luke over. She had been talking about it all morning and had planned lots of activities she wanted to do with him including playing "noodle swords," the water table, and bike riding. Thankfully it was a beautiful 80 degrees so it wasn't a problem to do all Morgan had planned.

David and I were both a little nervous about how soaked Luke might get in the water table, so we stripped him down to his diaper. He had a blast splashing everything, including Morgan. She thought it was hilarious and has definitely found her voice for speaking up. She kept telling Luke, "No, that's mine." Although we had to remind her not to be bossy, it was good to see her asserting herself.

After cleaning up the water table we headed out front to ride bikes.

I love the "pucker" face!

After riding bikes it was time to come in and get some chores done. I was emptying the dishwasher and both kids decided they needed to help. It is never too early to start training them.

Before we knew it Matt and Georgia were here to pick up Luke. It had been a fun afternoon and we all decided this was something we would definitely have to do again. I don't really know why it took us this long to figure out how great this could be.