Let's Pretend

There probably is a post with this title already!  It is Emma's favorite game to play. We pretend to be the Frances family (like the Bread and Jam for Frances characters) quite often- daily actually. And sometimes hourly. She has added Lily as a character and sometimes Annika is just the new baby Annika while Baby Katie scrubs in as Gloria.
On the way home from the nature center this afternoon Emma says, "Let's pretend that this is a bus and you are Lily the bus driver. I'm Frances, Annika is Gloria, and Daddy is Albert." OK I say, "Stay in your seats and keep quiet! you're on my bus now!"  Said with a smile of course.  Then Emma replies, "You're Lily and you live with us." OK but then that was that. The game ended without any warning.

Yesterday we played Barbies in the basement. She wanted me to talk for some of the girls so I did. But then she would ask, "who said that?"  So I would tell her. As I listened to her she talks but also narrates as if we are enacting the pages right from a book.  "Let's go to the beach, said Mia. So they all got dressed and went to the beach. Let's pretend that Ariel climbed up the cliff and dove into the water and swam and swam."  It is really fascinating to witness but a little hard to follow along. (It's hard to narrate!)