Neighborhood Friends

William, Ashley, and Everett hit the friend jackpot this past year: they each have a best friend who lives on our street.

I think I hit the jackpot, too.  I rarely hear that anyone is bored, and I don't have to drive anyone to their best friend's houses!

William is best friends with the five-year-old girl next door.  She started kindergarten (full day) this school year and they miss each other during the day.  William can't wait for her to get home in the afternoons and she has talked about going back to preschool so they can play more often.

He even got her interested in dinosaurs, and so they play some sort of game revolving around dinos often.

William always likes to walk her home when they are done playing.  Even though she lives right next door,  they like to go all the way down the driveways and use the sidewalks.

Ashley's best friend just so happens to be William's friend's sister.  Ashley and her best friend Maia are together so much that Maia's mom and I were joking about building a walkway connecting the second stories of our houses.

They have a lot of fun together.  I think Ashley loves how smart and exciting Maia is.  They also like doing many of the same things, such as wearing each other's clothes, running around outside and playing elaborate make-believe games.  In this picture they are dressed as Ninjas, which I think just proves my point about all three of those things.

Everett's big love right now is Pokemon.  I had no idea how many books and shows have been made and how much merchandise there is.  Crazy stuff.  Everett's best friend is not interested in Pokemon, but happened to have a lot of pokemon stuff.  This worked out well for Everett because his friend just gave it to him!

Everett and his friend love to build with legos together.  That is what they spend most of their time doing.  There have been a few fights about how to finish a lego creation (high stakes stuff, man), but they always resolve it in no time.