Nicholas' First Sleepover

Friday night we invited Nicholas' friend, Silas, over for the boys' first official sleepover.  They've both spent the night with grandparents and cousins visiting from out of town, but as any parent knows - this was totally different.  Both of them were giddy with excitement, and I have to admit I was too!  I spent the entire week planning fun things for them to do and I ended up  having the whole evening perfectly mapped out in my head.  We started with some delicious pepperoni pizza for dinner then hopped outside to play for about 15 minutes before approaching thunder and lightning sent us inside for cover.  (Just before we went in, Nicholas very seriously announced he was going to get some quick exercise and ran some laps around the backyard.  You gotta do what you gotta do, right?) Greg got home from work about that time and put up his deer blind so they could have a cool fort to play in.  Soon after that, Nicholas started to get pretty tired and his evil, cranky twin decided to come out to play.  With both of them getting sleepy, I decided it was a good time to break out the movies and pallets on the couch.  So, we popped a little popcorn and snuggled under our blankies to watch Puss in Boots.  They were so exhausted once bedtime finally rolled around that there were only a couple of minutes of talking, giggling, and humming before they were both sound asleep.  It was so much fun having Silas spend the night with us and both boys are dying for the next time!

 Silly boys.