playdate

yesterday morning we went to have a playdate with madelyn's friends jack and claire. their mom was borrowing a cake pan from me so i suggested we plan to play when i dropped it off.

mason loved, loved claire (who is almost one)! he was smiling and laughing at her as soon as he saw her. i think that madelyn is a little too loud and quick moving for mason to appreciate yet, but claire was just his speed. mason has laughed at madelyn before, but i could see that he was happy to see someone quiet and smiley that was his size.

madelyn was happy to play with jack too. it is always fun to play with someone else's toys. and jack has a really cool train table too. i was glad that we were able to get everyone together and it was nice to see their mom, amy, too.

jack and madelyn quickly found some wet outside fun. it was such a nice day outside that we just let them have fun and get wet. after they were adequately soaked, they had a snack before we stripped them down to come inside. since they were only wearing underwear amy suggested that they paint which of course madelyn loved.

we were extra lucky because amy invited us to stay for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - madelyn's favorite. i think it was just about the perfect playdate as far as madelyn was concerned.

i was not prepared for madelyn to get wet and did not have a change of clothes. the funny thing was that i had considered it before leaving - oh well. fortunately jack is in the starting phases of potty training and had an extra pair of underwear for madelyn to borrow. i tried to get a picture of them because it was kind of cute to see her running around in little boy underwear. when she woke up from her nap she was asking me about where they came from because she knew that they weren't hers and hadn't really taken the time to look at what i had put on her at jack's house.

(she is holding a panda bear in the picture because i had shown her the panda cam at the san diego zoo when she was talking to me about pandas and she remembered that she had a panda bear from that zoo in her room.) love.