Last week Elem and I actually headed to Rossville, GA to visit my sis and her hubby and my nephew Wyatt! He was turning 1 and we wouldnt have missed that for the world. Unfortunately on the last day of the 5 day trip I somehow misplaced my camera and it is gone forever I believe. For me that is such a huge loss and probably one of my most prized possessions, because I am a crazy picture taker, and feel there is always a need to capture the moment no matter what it is. And now I cant take a picture of anything and I am for sure sad about it! So today I am going to blog on something that happened in the beginning of March that I already have pictures of. I have been meaning to blog on it for a while and just never had the time, so today is the day.
During the first week of March, Elem had his very first SLEEPOVER! I had been tossing the idea around in my head for about a month before, but was never really sure if we could handle it (meaning me and Seth) or if Elem would really have fun, or if he would rather his friends come over to play and then go home. So we started off small and decided to only invite over 2 boys from Elem's school, who he loves dearly. Luckily both of the boys are 4 years old so they dont need as much babying, and I work with them every day at school so I already knew all about them! The two lucky friends invited were Canaan and Robert! Ands we really wanted it to be special, so I started out the event making home made invitations to let them know they were invited and that it was a real slumber PARTY! And not to mention I LOVE making stuff like this and very rarely have the chance to sit down and actually do it. I was super pumped once the invitations were made and Elem handed them out to his 2 little friends.
Finally Friday arrived and we headed out of school a little early to enjoy the afternoon sun. The boys each had a backpack full of clothes, we threw them in the car, buckled everyone in and off we went. They were so excited and kept saying, "Miss Mindy, I'm goin over your house". It was so cute. First off we headed to Mills Park over by my house to let them burn off some energy, and play on all the great toys. Elem and Robert=BFF
Everybody loves a huge slide, right?
After the park we went on home to meet Seth who had already ordered pizza for the group. Immediately the boys tore through all of Elem's toys, examining each and every one and taking full advantage of being in a new house with lots of new toys(to them anyways)and played and played and played. Canaan brought a huge frog tent with him and we put it up for all the boys to play in, and they loved it! Even Seth got in on the action. :) I was so happy he was there to enjoy the fun, he was great, and rough housed with all three of the, and did everything they needed! He was so wonderful. And I think he had a lot of fun too.
Elem particularly loved the tent. I believe we will be purchasing one very soon.
All the boys chillin in the tent-havin fun without me-the girl.
Some bubble time, which everyone seems to always enjoy. I dont think bubbles ever get old.
After bubbles, pizza, the tent, riding toys, and lots of running wild, we qickly noticed it was already 9:30pm and Elem Zane was still up. Which is way past his bed time, so we called for everyone to calm down and head into the tent for popcorn and a cartoon while Elem quietened down for bedtime. We actually thought everyone would be getting tired and ready for bed, but no way. Canaan and Robert stayed up until 11pm! Geez. Seth and I dont even stay up that late-very rarely anyways. FInally they headed off to bed and I laid with them for literally 3 minutes and they were both fast asleep. The next morning everyone woke up in a great mood and we had cinnamon roles and basketball fun for at least an hour.
By that time Seth and I were really tired and pretty much ready for everyone to go home. But it was only like 10am so I didnt want to end it that early. I mean I work with kids every single day, you would think I could handle a little sleepover. So we packed up, left Seth at home to get a little rest and off to Chick Fil A for a little more play time. We finally ate, and headed out to drop the boys off around noon.
Overall it was a great first slumber party, and boy am I glad there were only 3 total. I seriously dont think I could have done any more than that, simply for the fact that they all wanted to play with the same toy at once. And Elem being an only child we dont have duplicates of any toys around here so first come first serve on what you get to play with. It worked out though, and everyone had so much fun. Elem really loved the boys being at his house and playing with his toys, he shared so great and he really didnt try to take any of his toys away from them like they couldnt play with them or something. We finally were back at the house around 2pm and were soooo tired from the whole day! I can say that we will not be having any more sleepovers for a while, and when we do we will mostly likely just be inviting 1 child over at a time, until Elem is a little bit older. Mommy and Daddy were so worn out and I think 1 every 6 months would be fine with me! Whew-what a night.
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Wow Mindy! You are so brave to take on 3 boys at once! I'm glad you survived. I cannot believe how fast time has flown by, Elem is such a big boy, it seems like yesterday I was reading about you not being able to tie your shoes when you were pregnant with him, and now he's almost two. Where does it go?
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