Fun while it lasted

Handley and Avery have had a sleep-over before, but it was at the lake house where both sets of parents were there.  Today was our first attempt at having a real sleep-over, and it was fun while it lasted.  We picked Avery up on the golf cart this evening and were ready for an evening of fun.

The girls loved playing, singing, make-believing.  They ate dinner at the little table I recently moved from the playroom to the kitchen.

After dinner it was time for one of Hadley's favorite games, Elefun.  It consists of an elephant trunk filled with little butterflies.  When you turn on the game a fan blows the butterflies up through the trunk and into the air.  The object of the game is to catch as many butterflies in your net as you can.  We probably played it at least 10-15 times.

After all 3 girls helped clean-up all of the toys downstairs and in the playroom we got baths, and got ready for a movie.

Harper was unhappy when it was time for her to leave the party and head to bed.  She kept repeating Handley's name (she calls her De-da, or something like that) and pointing towards the door.  Next, it was time for the big girls to get to bed.  All was going well until about 9:30 when Avery decided she wasn't quite ready to stay for the entire night.  I told her it was more than OK for her to call her mom and go home and she decided that was what she wanted to do.

Handley was pretty upset when Avery left, but Avery gave her a huge hug and assured her, "it will be OK Handley.  I just miss my mom too much."  We promised we would try it again soon.