When Lily has a sleep over it is only considered fair, in a certain little sisters eyes, that she gets to have a play date.
I might not necessarily agree with her idea of "play". It was a bit chilly today.
Playing lasso with the hosepipe. Sadly the windows reflected my hands. I wasn't going anywhere near that cold cold water.
The water lasso really got going
Hmmm, washing her friends feet after her friend washed her everything.
dry clothes and a quick spin down the road
Cami pulling a really weird face. She's concentrating on some patterns they were making each other do.
Lily and Paula stayed in the house, they were rather low key. Turns out it was yet another unsleepover. Lily was asleep tonight at 7.30 bwa ha ha ha. We didn't get home until 7.19. I think she had a great time.
I do not make plans for the girls in earshot of them because on so many occasions the plans have to get scratched and I am left with one or two very disappointed little kids. Life is full of disappointments that actually mean something and that are worth getting upset over, cancelled play dates, in my eyes, are not. Last Friday evening as we left swimming Mari, Paula's Mum, invited Lily to her house on Monday to sleep over. Lily and Paula remembered, Mari didn't. It all turned out okay as Paula and Lily took matters into their own hands.
Lily did sleep over last night and today we met at the zoo for an afternoon of fun. We have a fabulous zoo that now boosts a water play area as one of it's attractions. We really didn't even bother looking for any of the animals as it was 91 degrees we just headed straight for the wet stuff.
Rosie and Camilla
The 3 amigos, Nico, Lily and Paula
Adjacent to the water park is this really lovely play area so the kids bebopped between the two
double trouble....and they are
Silly girl
Paula and Lily having a whale of a time
I loved this statue
Surfer girl
Rosie spent absolutely ages manning this water gun. She loved it.
As is typical with an unsleepover not much sleep was had so by 8pm both girls were goneso! Rosie really misses Lily when she isn't here and so do I. I know it's a rite of passage and all but I'm a much happier Mama when all my little chickadees are home in the nest. I don't mind how many others join them here just as long as mine are here, where they belong.
Last night as we were leaving swimming we stopped in the car park to talk with Paula and her family and I don't have any idea how it came up but it became apparent that Paula had a full change of clothes in the car. This then made me realise that we could do an unsleepover, so we did.
I always think that spur of the moment ideas are so much more fun and this one didn't disappoint. The girls just had a ball together. BY the time they had showered and eaten dinner it was already after 9pm and they were only just getting started. The Miami Heat were playing a make or break game for the NBA championship at home and we were all watching that while they did all sorts of crafts and before we knew it was midnight. (and the Heat had won...woot woot.)
I really don't know exactly what time the 2 of them went to sleep but I do know that it was after 1.15 A.M. and somehow Rosie managed to keep the pace with them. My dearest oldest child then thought it would be a wonderful idea to wake everyone up at 7.37 this morning, I didn't agree but not much could be done as they were awake. I drank a cup of coffee and was soon just as hyper and mental as them.
Paula's Mum is a gourmet chef and since I know there is no way I can compete with that I decided to do something utterly nuts for them for breakfast in hopes that Paula wouldn't focus so much on the food but more on the fun. I blindfolded them and led them to a table full of food and let them eat "blind". It was hilarious and they loved it. I highly recommend it. But I will warn you, things get messy, very messy.
We had planned to meet Paula's family at the zoo but the weather didn't co-operate at all so we spent the day at home. I finally had to call an end to the fun as it was time to head back to the pool for swimming. I didn't mind at all, I had those lovely legs to stare at again.
Playing games last night.
Making origami whilst watching the Heat game
Rosie watching the Heat game
Very early this morning
After I watched the video for the millionth time with Rosie I realised that I was duped by Paula. She could see! At one point she is eating egg and she pushes her fork into it and naturally just uses her finger to "pop" into on to her fork. Hello you can't do that if you can't see it. Lily is the only one who kept her blindfold down the whole time. They loved it though and had fun with it.
I had to laugh at swimming tonight because all the kids in Lily's level had stayed up really late to watch the game and all of them were exhausted but because it was pouring not to many people showed up so the the head coach married the classes together and sent 2 coaches home early. The kids had a different coach, from a higher level and he pushed them hard. REALLY HARD. I kept a close eye on Lily and Paula in case they drowned as they were swimming as if they were pulling an anchor. When Mari arrived to pick up Paula she was laughing too.
We came straight home tonight and both of them went directly from the shower to their beds and it was their idea. Sweet dreams tired little girls. Tomorrow will be another adventure.
