Cousins - Part 2

Jake was supposed to attend an event at church on Friday night called "The Late-Nighter" for which he has been anxiously counting down the days. We were not all that keen on him going, seeing as how he's only 6 and we really felt like there was absolutely no need for him to be with a group of 6-10 year olds without us until midnight. I'm not certain who decided that would be a good idea, but I did not think that it was. He talked about it for so long though and was so excited about it that we weren't certain how to break it to him that he would not be attending. We finally told him that he could go for the first few hours and that we would pick him up at 9, which, we assured him, was still a "Late-Nighter!"

We were saved, however, when we discovered that my nieces and nephews would be spending the night with us on Saturday night. My sister and brother-in-law were coming down for an event and so their four kids were going to spend the night with us. As I've mentioned, Jake and Addi love their cousins and were SO excited when they found out about the sleepover. We told Jake though that he could not do both the church event on Friday night and the sleepover with his cousins on Saturday night, and that he would have to choose. It was a huge relief when my plan did not backfire and he chose the sleepover (seeing as how the sleepover would be happening regardless of what he chose!). So, we had 6 kids here for the afternoon and night, and they all had a great time. Jake got to miss out on the sleep that he so desperately wanted to miss out on with the late-nighter, and a fun time was had by all. No, he did not get the pizza and bouncehouse that he was looking forward to, but they rode bikes and scooters and skateboards, and played guns and cops and robbers and dress-up, and had a blast. Have I mentioned that we miss having our cousins near???