Layla, meet Leila

So Layla and I had a playdate today with a family we met at our local park. They just moved here last week from Tucson and they have 3 little girls, including a 9 month old. We planned to meet up today at a great park in Arlington (complete with slides built into the hillside). While I was waiting for Danielle and the kids I started chatting with another mom...you know, the usual, feeding and sleeping schedules, playground recommendations, etc. At one point I said something like "Well Layla loves blah blah blah". The woman looked really confused. It took her a minute to realize that I was talking about MY Layla, because her baby is Leila, too. A few weeks ago I met a different Layla at a playground. So much for choosing a semi-unique name!

Tonight I had a soccer game. With Chris in San Diego I decided to bring along a helper for Layla. Often the girlfriends/wives on the sidelines push her around and play with her, but I don't want to take advantage of them. There is a middle school girl, Linae, in our neighborhood and she really wants to start babysitting. Tonight was a perfect first try, since I was there to help if needed (well, I would have been had we had more girls show up and I didn't have to play the entire first half!) Layla was surprisingly good for Linae, and only lost it at around 7:00, which was to be expected as she neared bottle and bed time. On the way home Linae said she'd like do it again and we also talked about having her come over to the house and play with Layla while I get stuff done. Babysitter-in-training at $5/hour....good stuff!

No pics of any of this.....sorry!