Another sleepover with the angels - lucky me! Erin & G were heading to an "Adult Party", as Jasmine informed me, so I picked up the girls Friday night and we headed to Nana & Grampie's. Nana was at her own function, so I got the girls mostly to myself! It started off a little rocky for Zoe. As we were leaving, she suddenly began crying and holding on to Erin. She just didn't want to leave her Mom. We finally convinced her to come with Jasmine and I, but Erin promised to call and if Zoe was still upset, she could come home. The ride to Quarry Point was teary for Zoe - despite my distraction efforts of spotting halloween decorations. We went in the house and I gave the girls some juice and a cookie. I then sat with Zoe and asked her to tell me about school and ballet and her friends. After about 5 minutes, she suddenly touched her cheeks and said "Auntie Sandra - I stopped crying!!" and threw her arms around my neck yelling "I missed you so much". I told her I missed her too and how happy I was she stopped crying! Erin called and was happy to hear Zoe had gotten over her spell. The girls and I played the Dora bingo game...twice...and then we gathered some books and headed up to bed. With Jasmine on one side of me and Zoe on the other, I went through about 4 books. Somewhere on book 2, Jasmine fell asleep. About halfway through book 4, Zoe was out. I left the two of them snuggled together and Dad and I watched the last game of the World Series - which I had no idea was happening. Who knew? Mom arrived home around 10 and we moved Jasmine into her bed and left Zoe in the same room. Knowing Zoe would wake up, I decided to crawl in next to her so she wouldn't be scared.
Sometime in the middle of the night, I heard "Fandra". A pause. "Fandra??". I sat up and saw Jasmine standing in her pack'n'play. "My tummy 'uz itchy, so I scwatched it". She then turned around, and snuggled back into her bed. I lay in bed thinking 'I'm not sure I needd that information at 2am, but ok' and got up myself just to make sure she had covers on her.
Sometime later, she called me again and this time decided she wanted to crawl in with Zoe and I. So she did. But she as a squirmy woormy. She settled down evetually, only to crawl out of bed and back into her own space.
Sometime later, she again crawled into bed with us, this time talking non-stop. I could not tell you what she was saying, different things, mostly animal related. Zoe sat up, looked at me and said "Auntie Sandra - I think I'm going to sleep with Nana". I told her that was a great idea -and she got up and headed to a quieter room. I envied her. Jasmine continued to regale me with stories until she finally settled down - and headed back to her own little bed.
This time she stayed asleep through the night and woke up in the morning, fully awake as always, and determined to drag me down to get Tiger and Sootie. As we fed the cats, she told me all about their routines. How Sootie sleeps up high because Tiger can't jump that high, how Tiger like his food, how he sometimes bops her...but she bops him right back. It was quite comical!
We all had breakfast and then the girls and I headed down Green Lane with the dogs. We stayed there most of the morning drawing on the pavement and playing hopscotch. Before you knew it, Erin had arrived to take them to meet the new addition to the Metcalfe family - Charlie the dog! It all went by far too quickly! :)
These two have perfected snuggling!!
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