Aaron's first sleep over

Aaron and his buddies, Connor & Asher, had their first sleep over this past weekend! They were very excited for this and it went very well!

First, a little Fireman Sam....



On to a few pictures, capturing the magic of the first sleep over!





Then, a few favorite books.....



Time for bed!



Finally..... a little over an hour later, they are all sleeping!


They got in bed at about 8 and were all sleep by a little after 9. (First Asher, then Connor, and lastly, Aaron! After the other 2 boys fell asleep, Aaron claimed that he was too hot in his footy pajamas, so we changed his pj's and then he went to sleep.)

The boys slept downstairs, all 3 of them fit horizontally across the queen sized bed. Asher came upstairs at about 5 in the morning whimpering and asking for his mom. I very excitedly reminded him that we were having a sleep over and he had almost made it to the morning, when we would be getting up to play, make breakfast, and even watch cartoons! He was easily reassured. I then asked if he wanted to go back down to sleep with Aaron and Connor or come up to sleep with Tim & I. He quickly said that he'd like to sleep upstairs. When we got upstairs, I asked if he would like to lay on the floor with a blanket or lay in the bed with Tim & I. Again, he very quickly decided that he'd like to sleep in our bed! He was adorable and snuggled up beside me and went back to sleep in a matter of minutes!

At that point (about 5:15), Maggie woke up.... so I was off to her room for a little rock in the chair.

About 5 minutes later, I heard Aaron & Connor talking downstairs! I went down to tell them that it wasn't time to get up yet and that they needed to lay down and go back to sleep. (I definitely wasn't convinced that would be happening.)

I came upstairs and laid down on the couch, so I would be closer to Aaron and Connor if they got too loud. Maggie woke up again at about 5:45, so I went up to her room to see if I could get her back to sleep. I sat in the rocking chair with her while she slept until about 6:30.

She and I headed downstairs after that to see what Aaron & Connor were up to. They had piled all of the pillows and blankets up on the bed to make a fort and were dragging tools and other toys into the bed to play with! Silly boys. We played, watched some cartoons, and I made french toast bites for breakfast. Asher slept until almost 8!

So, the day started at 5 am for this Mommy, but the boys sure did have fun! Aaron is already talking about when we can have a sleep over again!