First Sleepover

A weekend of firsts for Lux, confirming that she is growing up...terrible, terrible that Huxley will too someday be 4, I love having a baby in the house, in fact if it was my way we would ALWAYS have a baby in the house.

Weekend kicked off with taking Lux to buy her first pair of tap shoes and second pair of ballet shoes, black tap shoes and she decided on pink ballet shoes (although was torn over the black ones). We then drove her to Deb's for her first sleepover to celebrate her bestfriend Emma's 5th birthday. I sort of expected her to bail on the idea when we dropped her off, NOPE, she didn't bail. So off she went, and when I spoke to Deb last night her and Em were tucked into Em's bed after multiple "go to sleep" warnings they fell asleep (only to wake up in the middle of the night to chat and visit and again be warned to go to sleep! They were up at 6 am, roaring around the house.

She went off for her FIRST manicure and pedicure after breakfast (hot pink for her, purple for emma) and when we picked her up and she saw me standing at the glass doors she crumpled to her knees crying (and my dog barked and growled at me), what a welcome! Guess she was certainly ready for her FIRST sleep over.

Geoffrey and I sort of felt like happy empty nesters. Geoff went "tailgating" at the U's first footy game of the season and Huxley and I had a glass of wine with my friend Bryndis and her daughter Ella (also Lux's good friend) and we wandered down for some tailgating with kids in tow in strollers amid drunk, loud, crazy uni students and they noise made Huxley cry and a drunk uni student yelled "you made the baby fucking cry". Geoffrey enjoyed meeting more of our new Laurelhurst neighbors, what a small town feel the neighborhood has...

Both my kids are sleeping, Geoff is off to a Trivia night at the local pub (2 nights in a row, and he hasn't enjoyed a social night out maybe since we were married...).

One more day at home and then I'm back in the office, I'm ready. Will update my blog then - tomorrow Lux and I have a blackberry pie to make with blackberries we picked today!

nite nite.