Murphy Turns Magnificent
Posted in Familial Frolic by: KaterCameron and Jackson have been invited to Hadley’s birthday party today at 1pm. As soon as received the invitation and saw the time of the event, we started hatching plans. A lot of kids Cameron’s age don’t nap anymore, but Cameron still does and thank goodness because I can use the time to knit do chores.
So, plan hatch #1 involved skipping the nap altogether. The vision of consequences to #1 were too brutal to bear so we moved on. Plan hatch #2 involved putting the kids down early the night before so they would get up early the next morning so they could nap earlier and be ready for the party. Methinks the ‘getting up early’ part was too much for some us to bear so we moved on. Plan hatch #3 involved putting the kids down an hour LATER than real bedtime, in the hopes they would sleep in, and so could some of us, and we would still have steam to get through the party. We settled on this one. Some of us reluctantly.
Funny story. We put the kids to bed an hour later last night, feeling horrible that they were practically ZOMBIES by the time we mercifully let them go, and then this morning rolled around. Ah beautiful sleep in…
NO FREAKING WAY.
5:44am I woke up in a pool of my own where-is-my-AC? sweat.
5:48m Jax woke up, chatting away, then getting a bit more serious about getting out of bed.
6am Cameron woke up, all kids were changed and put back to bed…
6:20am or so we were ALL downstairs, ready to move on with Plan Hatch #2, the discarded plan.
What to do with kids who HAVE to sleep before a 1pm party? Feed them carbs for breakfast, pack a picnic and hit the water park.
8am and shady temperatures found this:
All kids are in bed now…we’ll let you know how the rest of the afternoon goes….
UPDATE:
Total success. Both kids were a bit cry-y just before leaving the house, and once Cameron arrived he was a bit shy and slow to warm up, but then? Both kids the JOY of the party, not just the life, AND the most well-behaved, and socially cool kids I have ever seen. What up with the adults though?
And we didn’t get lootbags, we got lootbooks – how great an idea is that? A Backyardigans book for Cameron (how did they know?) and a beautiful board book for Jackson.
