Week In My Life 2014 - Saturday

I'm sitting here watching my third Barbie movie of the evening - what does that sound like to ya?  If you guessed 7 year old sleepover, you guessed right!  But we'll get to that.

The day started with another birthday party.  Hannah was invited to one of her classmate's birthday party, which was this morning at 10:00 at the bouncy house.  Hannah hasn't really bonded with anyone in her new classroom (at the new daycare we've been at since June).  Hannah is super shy and struggles to make friends.  So I thought we should try to go to this party, and Hannah loves bounce houses.  Well, I'm glad we went, but she really didn't do that much bouncing.  She mostly played chase with one other little girl.  I asked her if it was who she played with mostly at school, and she said that she is.  So maybe she is making a friend.  I want her to make friends, but I worry that she will make friends only for us to pull her away from them again to start kindergarten.  Poor Hannah.  She'll survive, but I hate to see her struggle.

When we got home, it was time to watch the Buckeyes!  They pulled out a win, but it was not pretty.  We were really hoping they would blow out Minnesota.  Not so.  And we were hoping that Nebraska would beat Wiscy big, and that didn't happen either.  But ND lost, so that was fun.

On to the main event - Laura's sleepover.  As I posted before, we told her she wasn't going to have anymore big parties until she's ten.  She could have a few girls over for a sleepover but nothing fancy.  I also wanted her to invite some of her friends from school because I wanted to make sure that she is bonding with them.  Maybe I obsess too much about my kids friends.  Anyway, she invited the neighbor girl over, another friend, and four girls from school.  I figured about half would be able to make it.  We also weren't sure if people would let their kids spend the night since we don't really know any of the parents.  People are little more cautious about their kids staying over anymore.  We ended up with four girls, which was perfect. We played bingo.  That was funny.  I never thought that a game enjoyed by 70 year old would be so loved by 7 year olds!  We fed them mac and cheese and hamburgers and hot dogs.  We did a craft, or I should say Matt did a craft with the kids.  I don't really do crafts.  They were Christmas bulbs and came our really nice.  Laura opened her presents, they watched several movies, and there was lots of running and screeching.  A LOT of high-pitched screeching.  I think it was a success.  Laura is actually laying here watching this latest Barbie movie, and I think she wants to sleep.  She keeps hinting at her friends.  This is rare for Laura.  Laura is usually the last kid to be awake at sleepovers, but this time she is wiped out.  Funny.  Oh my friends would probably giggle about this.  I always fell asleep first at sleepovers, and they always messed with me.  But those are stories for another time!!

                                  The whole lot of them up in Laura's bunk bed.

                                

                                     Crazy faces!

Pancakes in the morning!

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