What a difference a few years makes!

When the girls were younger (like in the pic above) I had countless moms that would stop me and tell me, "Your life may be hard now, but just wait until they're a little bit older and they start to play together. It will get so much easier, I promise!" I swear I heard this a million different times and never really believed it.

I remember one day when Larkin and Willa were both crying hysterically, the dog was following me around and begging for a walk, I hadn't showered in days, and the fish were swimming around the top of the tank wanting to be fed. I couldn't take being pulled in so many directions and started crying myself!

I'm happy to say though that now the hard days are definitely over and the moms in the supermarket were right--they really do play together, and my life is so much easier now. They play so well actually that they often leave me alone for well over an hour, and sometimes it's hard to get them to leave the house--they get so wrapped up in their play that they don't want to leave!

The girls putting on a ballet performance, complete with flying placemats and boas

Yesterday our day started out with the girls wanting to make a princess hat (??), so I got out the fabric, clothespins, yarn, and scissors so that they could try to make one. Larkin eagerly started snipping, pinning, and trying to create something, while Willa sat on the floor for close to an hour just cutting tiny cuts all over the fabric. While creating, they spent the whole time talking about who would be at the ball, what they would wear, etc.

After much trial and error, Larkin decided to ditch the hat idea and go with a fabric "dress" with clothespins clipped all over it. Then she said that the ball of yarn was really a leash for her cat (Willa), and Willa started meowing, crawling and following Larkin. They then went to Willa's room with all the clothespins and clipped them all over Willa's blanket, stuffed animals, etc. The ball of yarn later became a soccer ball that everyone pretended was a present for a neighbor who loves soccer, and pretend cupcakes were made to celebrate her birthday. All of this took well over an hour, and I was only involved in gathering the sewing materials and supervising the scissor use!

Willa snipping away