Sara has been dying to have her first sleep over for about 6 months now. Marci offered to have a sleep over at her house with Sara's cousins Malina and Sophie. Sara was so excited. We thought 4 years old was perfectly the right age for her first over night trip and since she's never had anxiety about being away from us, we didn't think she'd have any trouble and we were right.
She packed up her suit case and didn't even forget her tooth brush. Also she took her sleeping bag and pillow. I was a little worried she might wet the bed because she's still be having accidents here but luckily that didn't happen. However it turns out she had a really bad nose bleed that got all over her clothes and on some of Marci's pillows.
It sounds like everyone had lots of fun though. They all brought swim suits and went for a bath in Marci's over sized tub. Malina has a bunk bed but Sara slept on a futon on the floor. We were worried she would need to go to the bathroom at night and fall out of the bunk bed. I thought maybe Sara would want to call us to tell us good night but I think she was totally fine where she was and didn't miss us too bad.
Dan and I were struck by how quiet around our house it was without her here. We really thought we'd enjoy it more than we did but we ended up missing Sara, probably more than she missed us.
The next day at Marci's they played and they went to a small carnival. Then Daddy drove up to get Sara. I stayed home and got to sell some stuff at the garage sale without Sara complaining too much, because she wasn't here to see it go. We mostly just sold old toys she doesn't play with and books that we really disliked.
She is already looking forward to her next sleep over. She is a super social child and I think it's actually been good for her to get away from us for a while.
She has also been playing with her neighbor friends non-stop since school got out. I assume that will continue all summer. They are pretty good kids, so we are lucky in that respect.
Her sand box in the back yard has taken a beating over the last few weeks. Other kids really seem to want to dig all the sand out or fill the sand box with water. We've managed to preserve some of the sand and dry it back out from being water logged but it's funny how difficult it is to keep a simple sand box. Sara has done a good job of keeping the top on it otherwise so the yard sprinklers don't soak it.
We will be getting out her back yard pool any day now as soon as I make another stopper for it. Then the real summer fun can begin. Brennan has his own little 1 ring pool to play in that I'm sure he will like splashing too. Both the kids are getting tans.
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