Little Friends

The hardest part about moving to a new place is leaving all the friends behind, particularly for the kids. All of our kids (even Mollie) has friends here that they absolutely love and are going to miss so much.
Just today, Lukas is over at the little neighbor girl's house. He was invited over and he always talks about going over and what they do together. According to her mom, the first thing Lukas asks to do when they are over is watch a show, but then something else is suggested and they go and do that.

Mollie loves to go too, so our neighbor is so nice and invites Mollie to come over and play too. Every so once in a while a friend will come over and ask Nikki or Lukas to play, and Mollie automatically thinks that they are asking for her too. One particular day a friend came by and Mollie was at the door when I answered it. She saw the friend and ran to go get her shoes so that she could go. The only problem was that it was only Nikki going to play. So Nikki went, the door closed just as Mollie returned with her shoes. She stood there devastated... and started to cry.  Time for diversions. I can't remember what we did, but I think it involved food (Mollie's first love).

The friends will be missed, especially over the summer when all they do is bounce from house to house. One minute they'll be at our house jumping on the trampoline, the next they're at another house getting otter pops, then back to each house to change into swim suits, then back to us for water tramp (sprinkler under the tramp). It was not uncommon for all the kids in the neighborhood to play from 8 am til 9 pm and later (with some breaks, but that's what summer is all about). I just hope that wherever  we end up that we can find as good of neighbors and friends as we have had here.