Pretend City

FIRST OF ALL, this is so cute... right? Marilyn as a dentist? love it!

Ok, seriously, Pretend City is the most amazing place on earth.  If, of course, you are 2-4 years old (or their mother). When I heard about this place, my first thought was "that sounds a little weird, would it really be fun to play dentist or librarian" Then I thought about Marilyn, and how she loves loves loves to pretend.  We dress up almost everyday and she has one baby going night-night and another one eating dinner while her puppies are playing in the kitchen all day long.  And my thoughts changed to "We MUST go, she will love this".  And it didn't disappoint, Marilyn and Camille loved fishing in the marina, brushing and putting braces on the teeth at the dentist, shopping at the grocery store, and sending out the police at the dispatch center.  Not to mention the stage they danced on for 20 minutes or the picking apples and strawberries and planting other vege's at the farm.  Check these pics...and go to pretend city. 

ALERT: These pictures are mostly terrible because the girls literally would not stop moving...sorry...

Marilyn planted lettuce and carrots in this pretend garden.  She loved sitting in the dirt and not getting dirty. 

Marilyn and I made a Turkey/Jelly/Tomato/Lettuce/Olive sandwich at the pretend subway...sick but awesome right?

This is the stage, which had crazy amounts of dress up...it had a lights and music board and the kids could change the lighting and the music anytime they wanted.  Marilyn didn't love that...but she did love DANCING like a maniac for 20 minutes straight, of course, in true Marilyn style dressed up as a lady bug. 

These are REAL chicks... the girls love love loved looking at them and saying "Silly Chick" every time they moved...so cute!

This is the pretend apple tree that Marilyn loved picking and putting back apples.  Pretty clever right?

This is the construction zone, where Missy loved banging everything with the hammer and the screwdriver. 

This is a pretend house, for some reason (even though we have our own house) Linny loved it...maybe it was the fact it was her size? or that she could moved the furniture around? or that the vacuum was small? or that she could open the fridge anytime she wanted? I don't know...

Grocery shopping...she bought all bananas



This is the art studio, where they have little craft projects to do...our girls just colored and taped stuff to their paper...



The kids got to drive these cars to all the different places...there were parking spots and everything...so cute!

Of course, since her dad is a fishing maniac, Missy loved fishing at the marina...I couldn't figure out if it was the fishing or the water...but she love it

Marilyn at the dispatch center...she got to push buttons to send the police over to the library or whatever...she LOVED it...

Basically it was a perfect afternoon.  I got to see Marilyn's little imagination working and her deliriously happy.  We are definitely going to go back so Dad can see how rad this place is.  Ok, GO...it rocks!