The Friendly Pirate Ship

Today we had our good friends Abby and Phoebe (and their baby brother Jude) come over to play.  I observe Petra play and bond with her own brother Jude daily and am sometimes completely awed by the closeness between twins I see.  They are so close.  I have also written about Petra's special friend Caleb whom she adores and she smiles at so much when they play together.  Today I totally delighted in watching Petra play with Abby. They both piled onto the hammock and asked me to swing them. I started to sing "the Friendly Pirate Ship" wiggle song and they were soon singing along.  Abby was wearing her sunglasses so Petra asked for hers and for the first time actually wore them! They just sang, smiled, and giggled at each other.  I've never seen her do that with another friend and it made me so happy.