Rhiannon at 13 months; Joaquin's creativity

At 13 months, Rhiannon likes to mimic and likes shoes.  She will bring us her shoes regardless of if we are getting dressed and likes to wear them around everywhere.  With Joaquin only liking to wear shirts and now Rhiannon with shoes, the joke is we need a 3rd that likes to wear pants so that we have one fully dressed child.  She also likes to mimic...blowing your nose, brushing your hair, carrying a purse.  And the other day she brought me a book with 'night night' as the final page so she could show me she could also say night night.


Joaquin is developing his creative side, making up songs and playing voices with his toys.  He has also told us that art is his favorite part of school, which is shocking since he has never had an interest in crafts.  He also identified a best friend at school (Lily and then, although not as strong, JT) and then we had tears when Lily started kinder at another school.  JT is still there, but he is still sad about Lily.  Sometimes he tells us that he doesn't have any friends left at school and we can't talk about Lily without tears.  It is a sad position to be in as a parent...and makes parallel play more and more of a wistful memory.