Oh, To Be 5 Again...

and have your best friend stay overnight! Meggan and Sara have had a ball tonight! We will definitely have to let them do this more often - they are absolutely on Cloud 9! It was kind of thrown together as a last-minute idea so Sara didn't even get here until close to 7:00, but they've made the most of it (as evidenced by the appearance of Meggan's bedroom floor). Not that it was necessarily clean to begin with...



As some may know, Sara's mom used to baby-sit Meggan. Back when Meggan was 2 years old and going to "school" at Little Wings, she got REALLY sick in the months of February-March. She was so sick and looked skinny and super weak (not that she's not skinny anyway, but you know what I mean). She just had this bug that kept attacking her little body, and she couldn't fight it off - I think we kept her home from "school" maybe 2-3 days out of a week and then kept having to do that about every two weeks during those months because she would be back down and out. It was a vicious cycle!



Wendy saw us walking one afternoon and I think her heart just broke for her. We would chat with them off and on as we would walk the neighborhood, but we didn't really know them all that well back then. She offered to baby-sit Meggan, in all of our hopes that it would get her better and back on her feet without all those germs to have to fight off!

Well, I've often used the saying that God puts us in the right place with the right people when we need it, and she was it! She was the sweetest, kindest person, and Meggan loved it there from day one! When Jordan was born, Wendy (after many hours of thought and prayer, I'm certain) decided that the baby-sitting thing all day every day just wasn't really going to be for her and we all went about our ways in that regard - and we've missed that daily contact with them ever since! Since then she has returned to working a full-time job as well, not just giving up the daycare thing. So again, God put us where we needed to be then too .......... we LOVE being at Nancy's house and the love that she shows our kids while we can't be there!

Anyway, now that Meggan and Sara are both in kindergarten, they are back together again. And I truly believe they are loving every minute of it! They are in the same kindergarten class and get to see each other again all day every day - it's perfect! I love how things just fall into place sometimes...

Dancing to the songs!

Apparently, their gym teacher told them that if they're at home and don't have a partner to hold their ankles down for them that they can use the couch to stick their feet under and work on doing their sit-ups that way!

Snuggling in for a little calm-down time watching Barbie and the Three Musketeers movie that Grandma and Papa got for Meggan!

And what do we do with Jordan to keep him out of their hair? Why, we played some trains (I'm sure that's a surprise to all) and some cars and trucks, and then we mixed up some brownies to surprise the girls with! He had a few licks of the spoon and then wanted a banana instead. Who is this kid? He can't be mine! Must be Jason's... :) He ate the whole thing and then played a while longer and got his jammies on, brushed his teeth, and off to bed at 8:30.

Cheese - messy face and all!

One of the combinations he came downstairs wearing. He went to Meggan's room to play for just a minute before he went to bed (they said it was okay) and came down like this. Meggan's hat, two necklaces, a bracelet, his police car, and a little bouncy ball in his hand. WHAT?!?! Oh, well, at least HE knew the idea behind it!

So we're wrapping up the night here and going to have the girls lay down in just a minute. They are going to "camp out" in the loft instead of sleeping in Meggan's bed. We only have one railing on her bed, and I don't want to be responsible if the one sleeping on the other side happens to fall out and crack her head on the toybox or the wooden doll crib on the floor! Actually, they had that idea to camp out and I told them it was fine!

Here's to being 5 years old again and spending time with your best friend!