The Sleepover

I’m getting ready for a sleepover … my three-year-old granddaughter is coming.  I’m requesting, and getting, helpful hints from her mother to make this an easy and enjoyable experience for us all.

No. 1   She prefers baths over showers and you can kill a good 30-45 minutes if you toss in a few pieces of recycle for her to fill up with H2O and dump out.

No. 2  Do NOT attempt to brush her hair, it will not go well  😉

No. 3   She has been trying to be helpful but it’s still iffy if it will actually BE helpful in the end – I am warned to pick my battles  🙂

No. 4  Bathroom breaks – “I swear she only goes twice a day!”

No. 5   FYI, when she says she needs to go…she needs to go NOW!

No. 6  Encourage her to take a bathroom break but she usually just screams at me, “NOOOOO I WENT YESTERDAY !!!!”

No. 7  She loves to wash her hands but watch out or soap could be all over. I am pretty sure she thinks she is a surgeon and needs to scrub in  😉 

Favourite Foods:

Breakfast:  cereal cereal cereal;  fresh blueberries (I am cautioned that if she thinks the blueberry is purple she will scream and refuse to eat); she also eats oatmeal from time to time but I am supposed to lie and tell her the brown sugar is cinnamon – you would think she’d like the sugar – [sigh]

Lunch:  She will likely ask for cereal cereal cereal; but to her credit this little girl will also eat pita and humus and cucumber.

Dinner:  She might ask for … cereal, cereal, cereal.  I am advised to call all meat chicken, even if it isn’t.  And she’s been eating burgers lately but I am warned it can be disturbing to watch 🙂

Last snack:  One guess … cereal, cereal, cereal.

She has spent a good part of her day “packing” her bag for her sleepover – so far she has markers and a colouring book – apparently the essentials.  And she has told her mother not to call her while she is at Nana and Papa’s – wonder what that’s about – as mother says, “Where’s the love?”

She asked to watch the sunset last night and Daddy and Mummy both said, NO way!!!”  😉 Maybe?? – not too sure about that …

So much fun.  She is bursting with excitement – “Three days! Mummy I stay 3!!!!! SLEEEEEP (arms wide open) OOOOOVERS!!!!!!”

Actually, it’s only two but we won’t tell her that 🙂