"telling stories"

madelyn doesn't just "play pretend" - she tells "stories".  what is even better is that mason has gotten the hang of it too.  madelyn pretends to be princesses and other figurines and mason pretends to be cars and trucks.  but they all interact together.  we might build a block house and cinderella might have lightening mcqueen over for tea.

i would say that madelyn spends around 50% of her day "telling stories" (some days much more and some (very few) days not at all).  here is a forced version for the camera.

and mason's version...

and mason was sad that i didn't let him say "bye" too.  love.