Playing with Isabella

On Saturday, Kris, Olexa, Jade and Isabella came over for playdate and dinner.
I was curious how the playday with Isabella would turn out, whether they'd recognize each other from daycare and whether they would play.

Well, they had a blast. They didn't skip a beat but dove right into play. Ivan showed her his Thomas the Train set. Of course Mariposa was right there in the thick of action, sitting in the middle of the train tracks.

When we sat down to eat dinner, they kept giggling at each other. Ivan saw Isabella eat quiche, so he actually ate a huge piece of quiche I had made, which he had never wanted to touch before. After dinner, they proceeded to chase each other around the kitchen-dining-living room loop. By the time they were done, Ivan was all sweaty and super exhausted that a bath was out of the question.

Seeing him play with Isabella like that made me realize that it would really be good for him to start inviting individual kids over to play with instead of a group of kids. In group situations, Ivan tends to retreat into the background to observe the action instead of taking part in it.