Imaginative Play

The creativity and problem solving in Maggie's play seems to have increased tremendously since we moved to Moscow. I'm amazed watching her each day with the play themes she comes up with, the tools she uses to make it happen, and the way she communicates to those she's playing with. Most of the time her play is centered around babies. She is usually the mommy or the teacher. She will write daily sheets for each of her babies when she's the teacher commenting on what they did at school that day. She takes her babies to the park to swing them. And on, and on...

Here Maggie is "swinging" her babies at the park. She used Daddy's lunch box, and asked me to put it on the staircase railing for her. She brought in the white stool because it's the buggy that the babies rode in to go to the park. She's the teacher and she's swinging baby Emma and Maggie. Baby Riley is waiting to swing in the buggy.