Camp

Amelia is enrolled in Cookie Camp right now. This is a camp where a chef teaches children how to make several kinds of cookies. So far, she has brought me oatmeal chocolate chip, sugar cookies, and double chocolate.  This is the perfect camp.  I'm never paying for swimming lessons, ballet, or any other camp again unless it yields me fresh baked goods on a daily basis. The bar has been set high.

Old

So, just when I was saying Amelia is growing up so fast, she let me know how old she thought I was.....

Amelia: Our cots are in a different place every nap time.

Me: I think it's cool you have cots. We didn't.

Amelia: You didn't even go to preschool.

Me: No, but when I was in kindergarten, we took naps.

Amelia: Reeeallly?

Me: Yep...and we didn't have cots to sleep on.

Amelia: Of course you didn't! When you were a kid with the cavemen, they didn't even invent cots yet!

Big Girl

This not so little girl goes to camp tomorrow at big kid school.  In a month or so, she'll begin kindergarten at that same school. I'm guessing in two more blinks, she'll be headed to college.

Why do they wake up so early??

Hosting a sleepover Friday night + going to bed at 1am after a Justin Timberlake concert on Saturday night + hitting the pool on Sunday = two tiiiiiired "old" parents.

"Sleep"over

Amelia is having her first sleepover tonight. Right now, Meggan is up there trying to get them to actually do the sleeping part. So far, her friend has been great at bedtime...and Amelia has had two crying fits, refused to share her stuffed animals, and under no circumstances would stop talking over her mom during storytime. Sooooo, I'd actually say it is going better than I expected.

Stick With What You Like

This picture means two things....1) My man wears his Woody boots so often, we had to buy him a bigger pair for fear he was damaging his growing feet and 2) Meggan brought a sense of reason as I was considering buying the next 10 sizes as well....

Shhhhh

Meggan is at drink wine with other moms away from your kids night book club. So, I had to put the children to bed myself tonight. For Everett, this usually literally means saying "okay, buddy, it is time for night night" and putting him in his crib. He doesn't complain. He doesn't cry. He just lays there until he falls asleep. A few nights ago, he was awake for over 2 hours. Aside from a few times where he started talking to himself, he didn't make a peep. Now, compare that with Amelia.  Getting Amelia to go to bed calmly is about as easy as getting Sophie to sit quietly through a cat beauty pageant.  She is more likely to get out of her room than she is to stay in it. She sometimes throws jabs at us like "Dear Jesus, please help my parents be nicer to me" when she says her prayers. And on occasion, she gets downright belligerent and just tells me that she isn't going to bed because sleeping is for lazy people.

Having said all that, tonight was like the Twilight Zone.  Everett absolutely lost his mind when I wouldn't let him sleep with several plastic toys. It was touch and go for his stuffed animals for a moment. I thought they were about to become fully launchable weapons. I haven't heard the word "NO!" come out so big from a body so small before. However, to compensate for this, Amelia went to bed like a sweet angel. She tried to calm Everett down for me. She said prayers for kids who "aren't nearly as lucky as her". She was wide awake when I left her room and she didn't even ask me to stay longer. So, I figure one of two things has occurred....either she saw I was near the end of my rope with Everett and decided to cut me some slack...orrrrr, the second I came downstairs, she got out of bed and started playing with all those toys Ev couldn't have and was too lame to climb out of his crib and reach. Either way, I'm enjoying it.