Pretend Play

Ah, the all important pretend play! It's such an important milestone for toddlers and Abby has really been into it lately. It's been really cute. She has two dalmatian puppies that she'll carry around and talk to. Yesterday she had one and was pointing out things to it ("there's a star", "that's a pig", etc) as she watched her nightly Baby Einstein movie. The other day she was carrying the puppy and her sippy around. She was talking away to it and then she'd offer it some water from her sippy, she'd drink, then offer the puppy water again. She was sitting in the corner just babbling away. It was close to lunch so she of course wanted to eat with it too. It's a little puppy so I let her have it on the table. She'd take a bite, then offer the spoon to the puppy and say "Want some?". Luckily she always did this after she took a bite of food so there was nothing on the spoon to get all over the puppy!