Last night was Magda’s first sleepover here. She’s gone to sleep here before, but her parents have always come to pick her up at the end of their evening. I was mildly apprehensive given that she didn’t display 100% enthusiasm for the idea, and after having read Rita’s description of her desolation the night that Jennifer bore Simone, but everything has gone off without a hitch.
Stepan very kindly came by to pick up Kayleigh in the morning and took her to Barnes & Noble with Magda for storytime (I didn’t realize that their “lunch” would be a chocolate chip cookie, but now I’ll know for next time!), and then mid-afternoon he dropped the girls off here. Around 4 p.m. we left to take Jonathan to his sleepover at a friend’s house around the corner, and then we went to the movie store. I had entertained thoughts of feeding the geese down at the Arboretum first, but frankly it was hot and I couldn’t face the thought. So the girls picked out two movies, one for that night and one for after CAPS one day next week.
We went home and had dinner, and then we ate cookies on the way down the street to get the mail. But it was so lovely outside (by now about 6:30 p.m.), with a cooling breeze, that we just went all the way to the park and played there for a bit. It was a great time; the girls played on both the playsets and then went really high on the swings while I chatted with my uncle Tim.
Eventually we headed home (Dale met us along the way), washed feet and hands, and got ready for bed. Dale took off to go to a movie with our friend Shannon (Burn After Reading, which he described as “dreadful”), and I put Thumbelina on for the girls. When the movie was over, they went to bed. Voila! It was just about as easy as that. Both were fully sound asleep by 9:30 p.m.
Right now on Sunday morning, they are just finishing up breakfast. I got out my shapes that I used to use all the time when I just had Jonathan, so each girl got an animal for her first pancake. They had their own little pitchers of syrup, real little teacups with milk, and pretty plates. To share they had some cantaloupe. They must be good pancakes because each girl has had four. (They are good made from scratch—last week I had to do “regular” pancakes rather than buttermilk, and I was woefully disappointed with the results, which resembled crepes a lot more than they looked like fluffy pancakes.) And they are giggling as they watch Looney Tunes. What better way to spend a Sunday morning?
I had fun hosting my first little girl sleepover.
Posted by elizabeth at October 5, 2008 09:48 AMPity about your heat problem, we have the opposite problem here. We saw the sun quite a bit the first two weeks or so, but since then itīs been mainly rain and cold. Weīre happy when the temp reaches 55 or so.
Good to hear about your yoga class. Glad Magdaīs sleepover was so erfolgreich. (This internet cafe wouldnīt allow our entry without the mod. Or maybe itīs your site.)
Hugs to everybody. We should be seeing Stepanīs parents in a couple of days.