When I picked the girls up from school on Thursday they were filled with so much excitement! Little did I know they were also filled with big plans!! They had been planning with their friends to have a "late night" over at our house. Now a "late night" is basically what I would call an old fashion sleepover but you don't sleep over you just stay at your friends house really late. I have found that a lot of parents don't let their kids sleep over at friends houses these days but they have invented this new thing of late night parties. Any way the girls asked me if they could have a "late night" with their friends Maddie and Kaitlyn Andersen on Friday night. I didn't care but made them ask Josh, since he is so not the night person. Josh has a bed time and feels that everyone should leave him alone after that time has been reached...that time is like 9pm! But Josh said sure and the girls were jumping with anticipation. We called up Amy Andersen to make sure Maddie and Kaitlyn could come and it was set. Elizabeth and Abby were so excited and off on their party planning. They had a schedule of things that they wanted to do which included games, a movie with popcorn, treats, getting their nails done, to mention a few. They are becoming the party planners already.
Friday after school came and I picked up all four girls from school. They get in the car and Elizabeth says, "Ok there are rules..." I'm thinking what? She is laying down the rules...this is so my kid, because of course in every civilized society there are always rules! By that point I couldn't wait to hear what these rules were, because I hadn't set any yet and I wanted to know how well I have trained this kid....She went on "...Rule #1 NO FIGHTING...", and while she is saying this she is looking at Maddie and Kaitlyn! "...Rule #2 No cheating on the games...", this one automatically ruled out Josh on getting to play any games with them, because he ALWAYS cheats! She only got to 2 rules before she got sidetracked by talking about all the activity they had planned to do.
We go home and of course it was snack time. They picked out snacks and then were off. Kaitlyn and Abby decided they needed to be in their PJ's right off, and changed. The older girls were off outside to play fairies! They played inside and outside then decided they wanted to go swimming. I watched them swim until Josh came home from work with the pizza.
We ate pizza and the girls declared they didn't need manners and proceeded to try to gross each other out. After dinner they wanted dessert but I hadn't made it yet so I quickly started cookie/brownies. Once that was in the oven we got started on their nails. They picked out their paint colors for their fingers and toes. After girly painting was done they were off to play a game, remembering that they couldn't cheat of course.
After the game we started the movie, Mirror Mirror. The girls popped popcorn and got their drinks and were set. We stopped the movie for a little bit when the cookie/brownies were done and Josh got back with the ice cream to put on top. Once they were completely filled with sugar we sent them down stairs to finish the movie. By this time is was getting dangerously close to Josh's bed time and he was getting tired. We planned to have the Andersen girls home by no later then 10pm but the movie took longer then planned and it was more like 10:30pm before the movie was over and the pillow fighting began, apparently pillow fighting doesn't fall under the rule #1 of no fighting. When we went into the theater the girls were all running around not looking tired at all except for Abby who was asleep on the cushions.
We gathered up everyone's stuff and put our girls to bed and were off to take the Andersen girls home. We get into the car and Josh is trying to help these girls out by giving them advise, it went something like this..."Girls I know your dad pretty well and I know that if you guys are at all grumpy or smart mouth for the next few day because of staying up late that you will NEVER get to do something like this again..." Which in my opinion is pretty good advise, but to an 8 and 6 year old they didn't want to listen and just proceeded to pretend that they couldn't hear Josh, which made me laugh a little. Finally he gave up and said oh well I tried!
I think the girls all had fun for their first "late night" party! Maybe there is a future in party planning for these girls after all...
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