A fun friendship

We have had a really neat family move in our ward recently. They have 5 kids too, so it is fun to get together and have complete pandamonium! The Shahs are a fun family, and my kids really enjoy playing with their kids. Alexis and Lily were playing over at Emma's house yesterday having great fun and pulling out some dress up clothes. Emma asked her mom, Sarah, to pull out the special clothes from the garage, and when that came out, Lily's eyes just lit up with excitement!

Sarah's husband, Alok, is from India, so whenever they attend any sort of Indian function, they need to wear the appropriate clothing. Sarah has beautiful outfits that her kids have worn over the past years, beautiful bangles and necklaces and beautiful little bindis. Sarah helped the girls get all fancy, and then let Lily take her outfit home for a while!

Lily was simply in heaven. On the way home, I was informed that Sarah was the neatest mom Lily has ever met. I said, "what about me?", and she shrugged the question off with a kind of "whatever, sure you are too" sort of response. I thought it was funny. The rest of the evening Lily spent carefully imagining she was doing everything a little girl from India would do. She was making up dances and asking about if it was okay for her to eat a burger for dinner, if little girls from India knelt on the ground, she tried to not miss a detail. (Of course, I don't know the answers!)

I tried to catch a few photos of her, but she wouldn't smile (because she was smiling like an Indian girl), and she wouldn't stop dancing!

Isn't it great to have good, fun friends?