Ivy's imagination and pretend play has EXPLODED over the past few weeks. She has always been good at pretending but it was usually very real things like cooking in her play kitchen or putting her doll to bed. Things like that but now she is always pretending to do something fake or be someone that she comes up with. Her favorite thing seems to be pretending to be a "Little Baby". She'll tell us what to ask: "Say, Do you want a snack Little Baby?" or something like that. She pretends her drinks are bottles, she crawls around. And when we ask her what she's doing, she says, "I'm a little baby..." and continues on with her fun. I know this has a lot to do with the preparations going on around the house for the REAL little baby coming in two months. She wants to use all the baby stuff (car seat, bouncy seat, play mat, etc.) in her pretend play - that makes it so real for her...
Today, she wanted to "freeze" a lot. You know, where you are walking around and someone says, "FREEZE!!" and you can't move. There were even a couple of times where she said, "Guys, I'm frozen here..." and we'd have to say "Un-freeze" to get her to move again.
She's been having birthday parties, going to the grocery store, taking stuffed toys to the vet, etc. She's been telling stories to us. They usually go something like, "One time, we went to the park. It was hot outside. I went down the slide. Another boy was there." Very simple stories, but very correct in her recollection of the events and most of all they are fun to listen to. She's growing up so fast!!
