Our first Slumber Party

Today Becca is 7!  That is so unbelievable to me!  My little girl is growing up so fast.  For her birthday this year she wanted to have a slumber party.  This sounded like a good idea and then we started deciding how many friends to invite. She had trouble narrowing it down to a couple friends. "Mom, I want ALL my friends to come." And just how do you say no to that? I think we also had a hard time saying no because this was a goodbye party of sorts.  So, we had a slumber party on Friday night with 8 GIRLS (6 friends, Becca and Tori)!  Josh spent the night at a friend's house (do I even need to say why this was a good idea?), so Andy was the solo male in the house.  The girls arrived shortly before dinner and we started off making pizzas.  We then tie-dyed T-shirts.  While I was tie-dying with a couple girls at a time, Andy read books to the other girls.  Now not just one or two books but because each girl brought her favorite book to share he read 7 books in a row (and as he will attest, some were not short)!  You go, super Dad!  After ice cream cake and presents, we watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the original one).  This is one of Becca's favorite books (we read it recently again on our road trip to Hershey) and she was excited to see the movie.  Amazingly, all the girls were asleep by 11:30! Recently, I was reading a friend's blog and she was commenting on how loud her son's sleepover was (with just 3 boys).  We were amazed at how QUIET the girls were!  Granted at one point all 8 of them were changing in one room together and it sounded like a henhouse with all their giggling.  Becca summed up the evening:

 "My party was better than I thought it would be!  It was the best party I ever had!"

All the girls in their tie-dye

Eating chocolate chip pancakes Saturday morning.  I told the girls I could make animals and they then gave me the challenge of making horses, a giraffe, a frog, poodles, and lions 

(just to name a few)

GAME: Each girl had to find their two animals by touch.