Going To The Park With a Few Friends

We needed to get out of the house this afternoon so I told Brianna we were going to go for a walk and then play on the apartment playground. Once we got to the play area Bree proceeded to get a few stuffed animals out of her diaper bag and boss them around the playground. (She feels the urge to be the boss of someone whether it's the cat, her little toddler friends, or her stuffed animals. However, we prefer to refer to this as her "leadership skills.") The stuffed kitty went down the slide repeatedly, apparently, he loves sliding. Then the purple bear, Tigger, and the kitty all shared some swinging time together. They're really quite close friends you see. Although she does like to boss, I mean lead, her stuffed friends, she also tried to take their personal feelings into consideration. After she pushed them in the swing once she let it stop and looked at purple bear. "Bear, citing? (exciting?) she asked him, "Again? Okay!" (Exciting is her newest adjective. She likes to throw it around as fancy vocabulary.) While all this was going on, I had been standing a short distance away, watching with some amusement, the diaper bag over my shoulder. This must have made Brianna think I seemed ready to leave and she felt I was rushing her. She "lead" me over to the side, pointed and said "Sit down Mommy," she patted the ground, "Sit down Mom, wait."