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A Summer Afternoon of Play at Home

·San Francisco, California·#summer#bay area#at-home#kids#playtime
Two smiling children, one in a Hello Kitty dress touching the face of another child in a Dora the Explorer dress.

Just a regular summer afternoon at home in the Bay Area, back in July of 2011. The girls were in that phase of constant motion, turning any piece of furniture into a stage or a mountain to be climbed. There was a lot of undirected, chaotic energy that could be fun to capture.

This day's set pieces were these woven poufs. They immediately became pedestals for performance. Decked out in their favorite cartoon dresses—Hello Kitty for the older one, Dora the Explorer for the younger—they took turns balancing, holding hands, and negotiating their shared space. It was a whole little world they created right there in the living room.

There was so much laughter. The light from the window was bright and they just kept going, striking poses with arms outstretched, then collapsing into giggles. It wasn't anything special, just one of those simple, unscripted moments that fill the quiet hours of a day at home.

Two young children stand barefoot on patterned woven poufs, holding hands and looking down at their hands.Two young children in colorful dresses hold hands, one standing on a woven patterned object.Two smiling young children, one in a Hello Kitty dress, stand against a light wall near a window.A child in a pink and blue Hello Kitty dress stands with outstretched arms indoors, next to a bright window.Two children stand with outstretched arms against a light wall; one laughs wearing a pink Hello Kitty shirt.Two children with raised arms, one on a woven stool in a Hello Kitty dress, the other in a Dora dress.

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