First Sleepover…
Sep 24th, 2008 by jcchickles
Theresa’s 9 years old! Doesn’t seem like it could be possible. Didn’t she just look like this?!!!
Now she’s almost as tall as me already, in the 4th grade, sending e-mails between friends and asking for her first sleepover birthday party – sheesh!
So, sleepover birthday it was, and I have to say it was a lot of fun. Theresa kept it to a small group of girls AND I made a deal with a good friend to take James for the night so we didn’t have to deal with any “Mommmmm! James won’t leave us aloooooooone!!” all night. 🙂 That was a really good call….and Derek and I will be doing the same for them for their daughter’s sleepover party this Saturday! Perfect!
Theresa helped me make her cake this year. She picked a seahorse for her theme and this is what we came up with. We made the sea grass and star fish out of sugar cookies and the fins out of melted lifesavers.
For evening fun, Derek and I created a treasure hunt with riddles the girls had to solve to find the next treasure and the next clue. We made them work pretty hard, but they had a blast.
Then after some yummy chocolate cake,the girls headed to their room and got on their PJs and each decorated their own set of slippers. I found these really neat kits on-line and thankfully it was a huge hit (sometimes you just don’t know how well a craft will go over). The slippers turned out great and the girls had fun coming out and modeling them for me and Derek when they finished.
Ahhhh….but the night was still very, very young. Only 9pm don’t you know…FAR too early to call it a night when having a sleepover. I did manage to get a token photo of the girls set up with their sleep bags before more fun began.
….then we were off on some serious Guitar Hero battles, webkinz visiting and more Wii games.
Finally, around 11:45pm I got the girls to retire to the room and try to call it a night. I finally stopped hearing giggles around 12:30am…although I found out the next morning that 2 of the girls stayed up whispering until 3:00am! Hard to believe, but they were all up and at em by 7:30am and ready to finish off the morning with a fun breakfast of build your own crepes before heading home. Needless to say, by around 3pm in the afternoon, Theresa was completely wiped out and could barely stay awake. 🙂 Happy Birthday Theresa!
