Saturday, June 20, 2009

Violet's First Playdate with Alex

Friday, June 12th we babysat my nephew Alex for a short while. He's about 5 months younger than Violet. They actually played together really well. And by playing together, I mean sitting beside each other playing.

At first, Alex was just playing with his giraffe and Violet was eating her veggie-cheeto thingies. Funny thing, when I set Alex down on his blanket, V crawled over to the edge and sat up there, almost like she wasn't sure if she was allowed on his blanket or not!

Take notice that while Alex is 5 months younger than Violet, he's almost the same size! Long baby!

Here she is with the veggie-cheeto thingy hanging out her mouth. She likes to leave it half in and half out of her mouth and sit there like that. Then she pushes the rest of it in after the first half has dissolved.


One day, if she ever looks at this when she's older, she may hate me for putting up these pictures. I know I wouldn't want pictures of me eating posted, but I'm her mom and that's what moms do, post embarrassing pictures! Hehehe.


Okay, so back to playing with Alex...here they are again, Violet still eating and Alex still playing with his giraffe.


Once V was done eating, she wanted to play with some toys. So I got a couple out, and Alex wanted to play as well.


At first they were both content playing with their own toys...


Then Alex got curious as to what Violet was playing with. "Hey, what toy you got? Looks fun."


"Excuse me, I would like your toy!" I really like how she's just seeming to ignore him. I believe she has learned this from being at daycare and having to share with other babies all day long.

They always want the toy the other baby has! =)

Not terribly long after this, Violet got bored of her train and started playing with her ball toy. Alex was very interested in this toy and kept trying to get it from her and I actually had to move her b/c I didn't want her to hurt him (the ball has colored panels that she could have accidentally snapped his finger between). Then it was dinner time for Violet, and Alex's parents (Kristen & Ryan) came to pick him up. So I didn't get any more pictures.

Overall, their playdate went really good. They are both such laid-back babies and got along really well. She's so lucky to have so many cousins close to her, age-wise. Noah is 5 months older, Alex is 5 months younger, and Josslyn is 7 months younger. Slightly further apart include Kate (14 months older) and one on the way (Tiff & Wade's 2nd), who'll be about 17 months younger. What a crazy bunch of grandkids from John's side, and that doesn't even include Natalia (4 1/2) and Anthony (9)! Holy cow! =) We're lucky we all live in the same town so she'll get to grow up with all her family nearby.

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