Playing Mommy

Annie tied Ellie's booster seat from the kitchen table onto the back of her scooter, rigging up a kind of 'car seat' for her babies to trail behind her on her jaunts across the kitchen and front room. She came up to me, pointed to her 'carseat' and proudly said, "Mom, I have a child and her name is Aurora," then adding in a conspiratorial whisper, "actually, it's totally a Barbie doll of Princess Aurora, but I'm saying it's my child." Then she nodded at me knowingly, and took off across the room again on her scooter, her 'child Aurora' in tow.