Play Date

Last Tuesday I helped out some friends of ours and watched their little boy Harrison for a couple hours. So he and Will had a little play date. (Well, sort of. They're both old enough to play but they don't really play with each other. They just play next to each other. But I think that counts for now.) 

Here's how the play date went...

They got off to a rough start--it turns out Will is a bit of a bully. It's not really his fault though. Harrison, who is a few months older than Will, is starting to learn what "Be gentle" means. He kept looking at me every time Will was by him as if to ask, "Is this okay?" and he mostly just played with his toys and looked at Will. On the other hand, Will is an eager, curious, somewhat aggressive 8-month-old with absolutely no concept of personal boundaries at all (again, not his fault, just a different developmental stage).

First they just looked at each other. Then they got up the guts to sit closer together. Then Will made the first move. He reached for the shirt...

Then the face...

And then he pushed Harrison over.

Then, after reassuring Harrison, distracting both boys with different toys, and putting a little safer distance between them, Will crawled over (much to Harrison's dismay)...

And took Harrison's toy.

"He did it! He's the thief!"

But eventually Will gave him his space (he figured out that mom's camera was much more interesting than beating up other babies) and they just played. So I just took pictures of them.

It was fun for me to take pictures of another baby. My goal was to get some cute pictures of the two boys together, but instead I just ended up documenting my boy's little reign of terror, taking a bunch of blurry pictures of Will where he tried to crawl on me or grab the camera, and getting a few really cute ones of Harrison. He was such a good sport with Will, but I could not get him to smile for the camera. Still, he's a cutie right? 

Hopefully Will will learn to be nicer to him in the future.