Imagination Avenue

Dr. Layla Yacob at your service.

Instead of going to the pool, the entire family went to an indoor play center called Imagination Avenue to beat the heat. The name describes the place very well. The town includes a grocery store, fashion boutique, fire station, home depot, jail house, hospital, bakery...you name it, they built it. Each store is complete with every pretend amenity you could imagine. Shopping carts, grill, baked goods, dress-up cloths, hospital bed, cash registers, food, and strangely an immense amount of baby dolls in almost every building. She loved riding around in a big black truck while mom and dad took turns pushing (Layla: again! pleasssse!). She also got pretty excited picking vegetables from a basket at the grocery store, dropping them in her cart, and putting them right back. Layla isn't exactly at the age where she can really enjoy the art of pretend, but none the less, she had a good time.

In the middle of the town was a place for very young children to play without getting run over by a truck or grocery cart...with a baby doll on board.

A teaching moment with Dad at the School House.

Did Layla make a friend? Hardly. Oh, the lovely stage of a vocabulary consisting of "mine" and "no". She is in her own little world.