On Saturday, we brought the girls to a first birthday party for our friends' son at a local indoor play gym. Among the guests was another set of twin sisters, a few months older than our girls. The four of them ended up playing together a bit, started up a spontaneous, non-adult-prompted game of Ring-Around-the-Rosy (led by future head cheerleader and premature all-fall-down-er Elsa), and we managed to take what may be one of the world's cutest kids-at-play videos ever.
I debated whether or not to post it here, because I didn't really have any kind of story or commentary to go along with it (and you know how I do like to go on...) Then, tonight, I was catching up with the news and finally saw some of the images from that horrible video of Neda Soltani dying in the street in Tehran, and I realized that that video was being taken at almost exactly the same time we were taking ours, to the hour. Maybe to the minute.
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