best friends

These two girls are best friends. They spend hours each day playing, laughing, and generally being together. They draw together, read together, play dolls together, and are usually happy to be around the other one. Very rarely can one get that involved in a game before the other is there, begging to join in.

But no best friends were meant to spend all day together, so I've recently learned that a little time apart is exactly what they need to stay friends. So while I nap each day, they have their alone time.

Don't get me wrong, there is fighting. They often don't quite agree on who should be "running" the game. It about drives Kiddo batty when Babs grabs her clothes and pulls at her ("time for a check-up!" the little one yells). And Babs can't resist the opportunity to steal that golden bear out of Kiddo's hands. And even though Babs insists on wearing pants even to church (she has "special church pants" she wears under her dress), while Kiddo is in a skirt every day, they both want to be the princess when they dance.

But as they play on the hill, running up and down, I can't help being so grateful they're both mine.