Sleepover Fun

Last night, Julia had a friend sleep over here at our house, complete with a pizza dinner, ice cream, and a viewing of "Ever After High." Madeleine was thrilled to be a part of the gang, even though she had to go to bed a good hour or so before the big kids.

Julia was less thrilled with Madeleine's joining in, although she did her best to tolerate things like Madeleine deciding to be a dragon instead of a Hogwart's student during a pretend-play game of "Harry Potter."

Julia's advice to her sister pretty much sums up what was tough about Madeleine's inclusion in the sleepover activities:

JULIA: I'll give you a tip.  If you want to play with people at a sleepover, then you shouldn't be going in their face, and, like, putting your FEET in their face when they're trying to watch something they've never seen before.  AND you shouldn't be pulling peoples' PANTS down.

Julia made it through most of the sleepover before "kicking" Madeleine out of the game around 9am today.

JULIA: Madeleine, now can we have a little time to play by ourselves?
MADELEINE: (bursting into hysterical tears and running to my embrace)

Despite the tears, Madeleine had a blast at Julia's sleepover.  In fact, the fun that Madeleine had experienced prompted yet more tears later in the day.  Ethan and I were sitting down to have some brunch and coffee when we heard sobbing coming from the play-room.  Madeleine, who had gone down to watch a show, was suddenly in full melt-down mode.  Ethan went and retrieved her and brought her upstairs to tell us about her problem.

ME: What's wrong, honey?
MADELEINE: (through tears) I wish we were still having the sleeeeep-oveeeeer!
ME: You had so much fun, huh?
MADELEINE: Yeeeeeeeah!  And...I can't even watch a shooooooow 'cause I'm toooo saaaaaaaaaaad!

Man.  Those are some really tough first-world problems.

Julia was sad about the fun ending as well, although she was able to entertain herself by galloping, doing her math homework, and reading about Greek gods.  Madeleine was finally able to move past her tears and got started on a brand new book.  I guess her sorrow helped fuel her artistic creativity more than ever, because this book looks like it's going to be her best yet:

I truly can't wait to find out what happens with May and the Atlantic orca!!  Stay tuned!