baby "play date"

A friend of mine and I wanted to do a play date, the catch...our babies!  She has a four month old baby named Alice and Greta is now 2.5 months old.  I was really looking forward to seeing her because it would be nice to have someone over that wouldn't care if my kid was crying, pooped out of her diaper, or needed a nap.  The day started at about 8:45am with texts trying to figure out what the girls schedules looked like for the morning.  Because of naps/feedings/waketimes we decided noon is would do.  Heather (my friend/Alice's mom) and Alice arrived and we were off to a rough start, Alice was not having any part of the visit.  So, reluctantly, Heather decided to take Alice back home for a nap and we would re-try later in the afternoon.  That worked out perfect because it wasn't 5 minutes after they left that Greta starting fussing for a nap too.  Both of the girls took 2+ hour naps and at about 5pm we decided to give it another go.  They came over and both babies were in good spirits.  We put them next to each other and watched their reactions.  It was all smiles at first but we quickly picked them up as they realized they were looking at another baby and it freaked them out!  They stayed for over an hour and Heather and I had a lot of time to chat.  By the end we were both walking around the living room, babies in our arms bouncing them to keep them quiet.  Who knows how long we had been doing that and talking over them.  That action is second nature now.  Like I said at the beginning of the post, it was good to have someone over that didn't care that my kid was crying because hers was crying too and I didn't mind that either!  It was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to watching the girls grow and become more familiar with each other.

-Suzie