I have two little girls with tons of energy and wild imaginations. I absolutely love watching them play and am so excited and happy that they've reached a stage where they can actually play together, rather than just fight over toys and drive each other crazy. They especially love to play outside. So I cuddle AngelBaby, sitting in the porch swing, enjoying the sunshine, while my two crazy girls run around together.
One favorite is the way they do laps around our large yard, pretending to be Rapunzel and singing from the movie, "I could go running, and racing..." In the movie, the song continues, listing several other verbs but they don't know what they are. So they just repeat those two until they get to the last line where they stop, throwing their arms out wide and shout, "that's where my life... be...gins!!!!" My neighbors probably don't appreciate the volume, but they are so dang cute.
Another favorite, which probably causes more concern among my neighbors, in when they take turns being Abinadi. Abinadi is a prophet from the Book of Mormon who became a martyr when he refused to recant and deny God. So the girls take turns pretending to lock each other up, tying them to the pillar and setting them on fire. I'm not sure why they latched onto this story as a favorite, especially because I feel like martyrdom is a little sophisticated for their understanding. But at least they know he's the good guy and that God will "get the bad guys".
And then there's the spur-of-the-moment, evolving-as-they-think-of-it kind of pretending that we do all day long. Like tonight, when I was the beautiful mermaid being forced to sing for the dancing pirates and be in their show. Why pirates? "because we're on a boat. and you have long hair." said Butterfly. obviously.
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