Sleepover and a 5 year check-up

Last night the girls had their friend, Annabelle, over for a sleepover!  This was Annabelle's first time trying a sleepover, but you never would have guessed it.  She made it all night and all three girls had a blast.  We had lots of fun stuff planned including playing outside, making brownies in the Easy Bake Oven, and playing nail salon.

I let them stay up a little late watching a movie in the hopes of getting everyone really sleepy before bedtime.  It didn't work.  Annabelle had a little fold out mattress that we set up on the floor in Handley's room and my girls slept in Handley's bed.  They were all so excited that they just had a hard time settling down to go to sleep.  Handley was surprisingly the first one to nod off, followed by Harper.  I kept texting back and forth with Carrie, Annabelle's mom, to keep her informed and two hours after we started the bedtime routine Annabelle finally drifted off.  She was totally fine the whole time...just super excited about being over at our house.

No one slept in this morning and they woke up ready to play.  After chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast, they were ready to play another round of nail salon before it was time for Annabelle to head home.

The bed-heads enjoying their breakfast.  

After Annabelle left we got ready to head to Handley's 5 year check-up.  Her stats were:

weight - 40 lbs. - 40th percentile
height - 44.5 inches - 90th percentile

Just as we knew...she's tall and skinny, but healthy as can be and she did great.  Because she didn't shed one tear for the two shots she had to get, we stopped by the bakery for lunch on our way home and she and Harper both picked the biggest possible cookie they could find.

One more quick note about Hudson.  I am trying to get him to drop his morning nap before we head to the beach and today is day 4 of him only taking an afternoon nap.  It seems to be going great and I love this schedule much better.