Playing around

My little girl seems to be growing by the nanosecond, so I thought I'd stop this moment in time and, for the record, create a list of her favorite games and free time fun right now:

Playing doctor with Mommy: Sofia is infinitely obsessed with my right hand middle finger that has a callus on it. She is also infinitely obsessed with doctors, medicine and all things boo-boo related. So the game is this: she cures my finger. "Mommy, do you have a boo boo?" to which I respond "Yes, Dr. Sofia, can you help me?" and then she grabs whatever's lying around, rubs it on said finger for a few minutes, gives my callus a kiss and, voila, yo' healed!

I never said she was normal.

Playing doctor with Papa': Papa' doesn't have any special finger like Mommy, so their game is a bit different. His involves his stomach. He lays on the ground, she listens to his stomach with her stethoscope, rubs whatever toy is around on it and, voila, Papa's healed too!

Playing school with her dolls: She lines them up, puts them to sleep, feeds them hearty snacks, changes their diapers and cuddles them. Oh yeah, and yells at them. A lot. For hitting, mostly, or for whatever she herself just got a time out for.

Watching videos on youtube: Remember the days I wished she'd get into videos so I could have a minute or two to myself? Well, in true Sofia style, she took that wish and one-upped it so she could get everything she wanted and I would get nil. Now she loves videos (Sesame Street, mainly) on youtube. But only if she's holding my infamously callused finger. So: videos, without the Mommy break. The horror!

Playing supermarket: Santa brought Sofia a cash register, and she loves playing store. We take turns working the register, adding up all our plastic fruit and vegetable purchases, and then the other one pays. With Sofia, the total is always the same: 2.70. No idea where that came from.

Reading books: I feel so lucky, happy and relieved that Sofia loves reading so much. She has a ton of favorite books and sometimes re-reading Clifford the Big Red Dog for the umpteenth time can get tiring, but we are always happy to comply with this request. My smarty pants.

Playing with her Playmobile farmhouse: Santa also brought her this fantastic house for Xmas and, when I have the patience to take out all the tiny little parts and set them out, we have a grand old time setting up the house and farm for the little included dolls.

Playing with Legos - especially with Papa': This one's a new Sofia find. We've had this box of Legos for almost two years, but only now is she actually enjoying them. She always seems to make lego beds to put the lego dolls in (I'm beginning to sense a theme: sleep, food and doctors...) and she almost always shoos me away because she wants her awesomely creative, mechanically-minded Papa' all to herself. Can't blame her - he made her a lego cash register in little over 3 seconds the other day.


I am seriously loving getting to re-live all these childhood games that I also remember loving. Now if I could just comfortably sit on the floor with her without my big preggo belly getting in the way, we'd be set!