Laine and Eve's magical imaginations

As most of you know, Laine and Eve are incredibly imaginative and make life magical. Lately, they've been really getting carried away. The vast majority of their playing time this week has been spent playing pretending games. Some times they play really cute pretending games like this:

Laine: Hey Eve, let's play with our pretend-girl-cousin-friends Laine Hendricks and Eve Hendricks.

Eve: Okay! Let's all play crazy dance dance.

And they'll wiggle around and sing and dance with their pretend cousins for a while.

Other pretending games are really dumb.

Eve: Laine, let's pretend I'm a witch and I'm going to cast a spell on you to put you to sleep and I need to touch your eyeball to do it.

Laine: Okay!

Eve: Hocus pocus...

Laine: OW! My eye!!!

Other times they turn chairs into motorcycles and footstools into steering wheels for their Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang-esque cars. Other times they play grocery store with their new Christmas toys for a long time. The other day, Eve burst out laughing all of a sudden and when I asked what was so funny, she told me that he pretend frend Grandma had just told her a really funny joke.

This weekend, we drove to Baltimore, which is about an hour away in good traffic, to visit the aquarium. They have a huge aquarium there with dolphin shows, rays and sharks, an australia exhibit, and tons of other fun things. We had a fun time even though Eve got pretty tired toward the end.