Baby's First Play Date

Lana had her first official play date over the weekend when Kim, Michael, and their four-month old daughter Alexandra came to visit. Kim and I were both journalism majors at UGA and we had one class together our senior year. We didn’t get to know each other then, though – Kim was an advertising major and I was in public relations. In the small world of the J-school, that’s like the Bloods and the Crips, except we battled with Photoshop and annoying perkiness instead of guns and intimidation. Kim and I later became friends when we worked together after college, and we kept in touch after Kim and Michael moved to California several years ago. Through email, we shared our pregnancy complaints and the joy of the birth of our daughters just one month apart.

When Kim and Michael moved back to Georgia last month, we jumped at the chance to see them again and get our two girls together. I didn’t expect much in terms of interaction between the girls because they are still so young, but Lana and Alex seemed genuinely interested in each other and even reached out to hold hands at one point.

As cute as that was, it was even cuter to see how our guys have come into their own as dads. John couldn’t wait to hold Alex and was genuinely disappointed when she cried as he held her. “If babies don’t want to be held, they shouldn’t be so cute,” he told me. Later on when Lana grabbed the sleeve of Alex’s hoodie, Michael captured the moment perfectly when he used a baby voice to ask, “Is that velour? Where did you get it?” These are two very cute and very lucky Daddy’s girls.