Role Playing

A day in our life lately consists of LOTS of doll play. 

It's hard work to keep up with FIVE frequent diaper changes, potty breaks, naptimes, book sessions, and feedings. Rhya's five babies are very well taken care of, though. She told me that two of her babies are daycare kids, so at least she only has them during the day. :-)

 

She takes her mommy role very seriously and has even asked me to babysit while she puts away the kitchen dishes. I sat in the bathroom on the stool and held the armful of babies while I heard her attempting to climb the cupboard and put a glass on the shelf!

I attribute the onset of the baby play to the arrival of a certain special little niece: 

She's sat in the rocking chair with Rayna for close to an hour on a few different occasions. She's not afraid of crying either. At one point last week Kristina and I were each busy with our tired one year olds, so Rhya filled in the gap and calmly attempted to soothe Rayna in the rocking chair. All three of us were on different rocking chairs, rocking away!  

sidenote: ***She has her limit, though! The other day Rayna started to get squirmy and Rhya decided to be done. She called out, "Rayna's getting wacko on me! I just can't have this right now."

HA!!! Where does she hear these things? :-)

                                       Oh how we love our little sugar plums:

Sometimes I look at my girls and think, "Wow, this is the REAL thing! I am not just 'playing dolls'. They are real, live, human beings, growing incredibly fast."