Sleepover

Some friends of ours who haven’t had a night away from their daughter since bringing her home, took us up on our offer to have a sleepover. Now, even though we live quite a ways apart, we have managed to keep Elly and Jo Jo in contact frequently over the last couple of years, so the girls are close, and talk about each other all the time. But sharing a room, toys, and everything else is new territory, so we didn’t know what to expect. We figured it wouldn’t be too difficult though... Ahhh…. I hear everyone out there (or at least the four faithful followers) sighing and shaking your heads right now, waiting for the “How wrong we were” story. Not so.

The girls played at home for awhile, then we went to the park where they ran around like crazy with Jo Jo leading the charge and Elly at her back. Anyone who knows the two of them can picture this I’m sure. We only had one very brief spat over toy ownership/use the whole time.

Elly, being the recent camping expert, showed JoJo how to make Smores over the firepit in our yard.

As we expected, it took them a long time to go to sleep though. Jo Jo had a short but very manageable melt because she missed mommy and daddy, and the hour leading up to the melt was very humorous.

Quote “Tina… Elly’s not talking to me!!!” (Because she was exhausted and falling asleep).

The next morning we headed north, to a bouncy house we know. The girls again ran around like mad and had a grand time. We met Jo Jo’s mom and dad there, had a good lunch, and agreed to do it all again sometime. All Elly wanted to know on the way home was when she could stay with Jo Jo, and what we were going to do while she did.