First Play Date

Today being a half day we have set up a play date with a friend from school.  They are having a good time - but I forgot how much work real playdates are at this age.  Clearly I need to network the friend circle better and do more of these more often so that they get easier.  Also clear is that if my guy is having this much trouble with the parrell play of a peer for a 2 hour visit - then he is not ready to go to others houses yet.  Don't get me wrong he is doing just fine, but he is needing some assistance from me to make sure that his friend is eaqually in charge of the play.  Not sure that I know any of the other parents well enough to think that they would or could want to attempt this. So for now we will stick to home play.

Amazing to me is the difference in his personality with a friend play date vs the cousin play dates.  He actually I think is being a bit of a show off at times.  This makes me smile.  Didn't see that coming . . . but given his family genes it shouldn't be that much of a shock. :-)