First Sleepover!

Gabby and Rocco were invited to their very first sleepover last Saturday night at their best friend's home (Sofia and Giovanni). They had SO much fun! I told them about it the day before, and by 8am on Saturday morning, they were both packed and ready to go!

It was comical to see what they packed... between the two of them, there were two heavy bags of toys packed that included cars, guns, swords, flashlights, photo books, dolls, dress-up jewelry, color crayons, etc. We basically had to remind them to pack their pajamas, clothes for the next day, toothbrushes and their sleeping bags.

We were slightly worried that we might get a call sometime before 11pm to come and pick them up because one of them was scared or just wanted the comforts of home. But, nope! They did GREAT!

After we dropped the kids off, Dan & I took Giuliana on a date with us. We had some great food and enjoyed the calm & peacefulness associated with only one child joining us for the evening. Giuliana got extra spoiled by her mommy and daddy.... LOTS of love and ice cream after dinner.

I guess it took Rocco a while to get settled/comfortable in sleeping on the floor in his sleeping bag. I was told Sofia and Giovanni fell asleep shortly after 10pm... and Gabby and Rocco finally fell asleep shortly after 11pm. Apparently Rocco was up every 10 mins to get water, which annoyed Gabby... but thankfully, the sleep fairy finally hit both of them. And, I guess all the kids were up by 7am to play again!

My kids are used to sleeping from 8 or 8:15 pm until 7 or 7:30am. So - they got a short night's sleep... which is to be expected with a sleepover, right?! My kids normally sleep HARD and long! Rocco never wakes up in the middle of the night... if he does it is extremely rare. Gabby wakes up from nightmares every once in a while still, but is easily put right back to bed. So, when they got home from the sleepover...they were both abnormally tired and a little fussy. So tired in fact that they next night we put them to bed at 7:40pm and they slept in until 8am!

The kids had SO MUCH FUN and are very excited to do another sleepover or host a sleepover at our house. They played, they read books, they colored, they watched movies and had a popcorn party, they built forts... and so much more.

A definite success!!