Playdates

We have officially entered the glorious world of playdates at Chez Long. Sure, we did a few last year and always have them with Ebba and Susan's kids, but the kids are all asking to have them with their new school friends. I consider this a major success considering all of them need assistance in the "social" arena.

We had Zoe over the other day. Zoe is the daughter of a mom that helped me coordinate the pre-kindergarten playdates. They never really played on any of those for 9 months, but they sit right next to each other at school and are actually quite similar. They play really well together since Parker isn't very "boy" and Zoe isn't too girlie. Then they asked Parker over to their house and it went well too. They live only 5 blocks from us so we can walk to their place. Next Ronan, another neighborhood kid whose parents are both teachers, invited Parker over to his house where they had a great time. The next day, his mom needed some help since she was going on a fieldtrip with her daughter so he came to our house. Another good afternoon.

The girls had a girl named Quinn over a couple weeks ago. Quinn seemed to really take to Miranda, but all got along well. Then Quinn's mom Ashley invited Miranda over on Monday. (They have a small car and small house so two girls was not possible.) So I planed a playdate for Elizabeth and gave her the choice of who to ask. She picked a quiet, smaller girl named Alise and her mom was pleased to hear it.

Then today, a neighborhood preschool boy was walking by our house, Elizabeth saw him and went outside to say hi. He and his mom came in to hang out for a bit and everyone had fun.

Since learning anything in kindergarten (or preschool for that matter) isn't really one of the goals for the kids, I'm quite pleased that they are all making friends. Especially with Parker as this is one of my only goals for him this year.