My best friend Tara and I have known each other since our parents moved onto the same street at the beginning of 1981. So we grew up together and all that and now that I’m writing this I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned her in the past but I’m way too exhausted from not working all day to go find it in my archives. Anyway. We always dreamed about our kids growing up and being best friends just like us.
Tara’s oldest daughter Reilly is 2 1/2 and she’s at the stage where she loves babies. Well, I don’t know if she loves ALL babies, because I don’t really know how she feels about her baby brother Georgie, but she loves Maddie. Georgie is six months old and, like every other baby on earth, already bigger than Maddie. All three of the kids have met several times in the past, but they are finally at the point where they take an interest in each other.
Before Maddie was crawling and Georgie was rolling, Tara and I put them on a blanket so they could look at each other. Not wanting to be left out, Reilly jumped down on the blanket with them. Tara and I grabbed our cameras and couldn’t believe when we got a shot with all of them looking at the camera.
Or, you know, in the general direction of the camera.
Since that day, Tara and I have tried to grab time here and there, which has been hard. Tara and I both had jobs (well, Tara still has one) so our schedules were tight. We managed to get some time together for Maddie and Georgie to get to know each other even better.
First they got some quality time on a blanket. I only managed a couple pictures before I had to put the camera down. Maddie and Georgie were more interested in grabbing noses, cheeks, lips, and eyes. And you know what they say about fun and games and eyes. The mommies had to intervene.
After that, we decided to get them out of reach of each other, so we put them on the swings.
They were uncertain at first, but as soon as they realized they weren’t going to fall, they both loved swinging.
These pictures are totally going in their wedding video.
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Oh how cute. I always tell my friends not to worry I am just taking future prom date pictures.
These pictures are priceless!
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Precious kiddos. Makes me want one so bad!!! I love how happy Maddie looks to be in that swing. She might now do pumpkins, but it looks like you’ve got a little daredevil on your hands!
Love the pictures – I am all for arranged weddings . The wedding video will be great.
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I only hope they’re as happy on their wedding day as they were that day on the swings. What a great pictorial you’ve got there!
Loves it.
You and Tara make some BEEYOOOOTIFUL babies!
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I agree, those are some CUTE KIDS!!!!
Baby Brother is going to be born within a week or so of a friend’s twin girls, then another baby next month (probably a girl). I can’t wait to take ridiculous “YOU ARE SO GETTING MARRIED” pictures. Hundreds of them.
Maddie, as always, is SUCH a dollface.
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great pictures.
So cute! I love the little clip in Maddie’s hair! Isn’t it great to have friends that had kids at about the same time you did.
We haven’t heard anything about Jackie! in a long time. How is she?
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I’m lame like that too (whoops, did I just call you lame?) I think of how things will look in a wedding video twenty years from now.
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we have several friends that had boys around the same time as our littlest, cora. we are claiming that they can all date now…but we’ll figure out which one will get to be her husband after we see them in high school. that’s all telling for boys.
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And don’t think that wedding can’t happen – My friend and I had babies 6 weeks apart back in 1980. In 2004 they got married – my son and her daughter. We totally have pictures of them together as babies! Cool story, so if you want the full details someday, I’ll give it to you!
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That little Georgie is a charmer like Maddie. They are so meant to be together!
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Way to be the older woman Maddie…I’m in full support of this new pair of luvahs. Can’t wait to see the flirting in full swing when they’re in costume.
I think there’s something to be said for arranged marriage. Would make the teenage years much less angst ridden! I’m in the early stages of negotiations to marry off my Boy Z to the daughter of another blogger. He’ll thank me for it one day.
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No one does “Surprise! What, me?! In a picture?” better than Maddie.
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Adorable! The last photo of Maddie on the swing is especially cute!
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Aww.. what a bunch of cuties! My bff and I are the same way- friends since we were 4
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I thought that was a sweet story, until that last caption.
Now I’m just pissed on Zach’s behalf. You’d better warn Georgie that he’s got some serious competition for Maddie’s affection.
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