Aleece and I try to get together with friends as much as possible. We love getting kids together and watching them play, we even sometimes engage in some adult conversation. On one of the recent get-together Ayris and the rest of her family came over to play with Leif, and probably secondary to play with Kalven and lastly us adults. Ayris and Leif had a great time.
The drew some art,
showed off belly buttons,
and played camp-out.
We had to constantly remind the kids to use their indoor voices because they were screaming so much. The thing that lead to most of the screaming was some cloth flower thingies. It was a lot of fun to tickle each other with them.
It’s great to get together with friends.
Ah, 2year olds have lots and lots of energy, and they love to use it. So much so that when they get tired they try to pretend that they can still keep going. I love to watch Leif play and play and play. Sometimes I can just sit on the floor and Leif will climb all over me like I am a jungle gym, I don’t have to do a thing.
The other night Aleece and I brought the kids of the Chris and Michelle’s house. We had some great chili over there, but the best part of the night was watching Leif and Ayris play together. Both kids are just in the beginning stages of using their imaginations and they were playing off of each others imaginary play things. Sure they would often want to play with the same toy at the same time, but a gentle word from a parent and all was right. At one point Leif got so excited and had so much energy that he started running circles. Not running around anything, he just picked an open spot in the middle of the living room and ran in circles. Round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round. Ayris just sat on the side and watched him, I am not sure if she thought he was crazy or if she was memorized by it.
I really love night like that where we can hang out with good friends and the kids have so much fun playing.
So, on Tuesday a friend of Aleece decided to have a thanksgiving feast for all of her friends. It was a really nice get together and almost all of Aleece’s “girls” made it. We are in that time of life where many of our friends have kids so there was a adult crowd and a kid crowd. The adult crowd has the infants and little babies, many of which were passed around and not held by their respective parents. The kid crowd pretty much gathered where the movie was playing and then in the kids bedroom, where the toys were. Leif found a new girl friend at the party. He followed one little girl around a lot and while the movie was playing he started work perfecting the “yawn and move arm” trick that men are so famous for. You know, the one where we feign a yawn and stretch our arms up high, just to bring an arm down around the shoulders of a girl we like. Yea, that’s the one he was trying out. The thing is that I have not told him about that one yet, that move must be ingrained into male DNA. Well, Leif pulled it off pretty well and got to have his arm around that girl for a while. Man that kid is gonna break hearts when he gets older.
Yesterday Aleece babysat Asher. I was working from home and got to peek in from time to time. Things went well, Leif was a little needy but that’s his normal 2 year old self, he was actually pretty well behaved. We got some pictures of Kalven and Asher sitting on the couch just chillin.
