Sleepover Fun

Oh how fun 7 year old boys are. If you haven't had one around you in a while, they are a funny breed. And you kinda think your's is the only dorky one, until you get them together and see the symphony of fun and dorky all put together. They laugh at the littlest of things, bodily noises, dumb jokes, funny sounds, physical comedy. And they seem to be trying to one up each other in everything, especially in the realm of laughs. Thus started our night, our first sleepover with 2 other wonderful dorky little boys (and I do say dorky with all the love in my heart). On the way back to our house from picking them up, they filled the back seat with loud squeels and the aforementioned dumb jokes. Parker especially was crazy, bouncing around trying to make his friends laugh with any little comment. Thankfully he sort of chilled out by the time he got home. It was interesting watching the dynamics. You could definitely tell the other two had older siblings, they were much wiser in the ways of the world, well in the ways of their christian school world. Parker was singing some rhymig song and would stumble upon a bad word on accident, like when he was rhyming something to Ritch. He had no idea it was a bad word but the other too were quick to point it out. It was kinda cute though, they begged him not to say that word anymore, that is wasn't a good word. They were the cuss police. And funny thing the next song was them quoting all the books of the Bible they had learned at school. I was cracking up from the front seat. Listening to them debate what came after 1 Corinthians was comical as I'm pretty sure this was the first time in the history of 2nd grade boy sleepovers this had been done. Anyhoo. I digress. We went home had pizza, rootbeer and cheese puffs. (have you ever tried to have just one handful of cheesepuffs, impossible). They played some Wii NBA basketball. Another opportunity for the other boys to show their higher level of maturity. They knew every player, team, and move and smack talking. At one point one little boy yelled out after a slam dunk, "That's how I roll, suckas, Lebron's the man". parker had no idea what they were talking about or even how to play the game, he had always been content playing 1990's version of double dribble with his dad. And as he shied away from playing, readily confessing he didn't know how, they were so sweet to encourage him to try and that they would show him what to do. They really were sweet boys. Not one bit of fighting, bickering, gossip, drama, malice and so forth, quite different from my sleepover days. After video games we went outside to build a fire and roast marshmallows. They were hysterical out there too, in typical 7 year old boy fashion. And another highlight of the evening was that one boy (while I ran inside) peed on the fire to help it go out. Priceless.  A huge wrestling fest took place at jammy time, that was my favorite part. I see my boys wrestle with Ritchey all the time, but this was way better. No fake daddy moves, no letting the other guy win, even Cooper jumped on the dog pile. They were giggling like little girls. One boy had no modesty in changing clothes (same kid who peed on the fire), another brought along cologne so he could smell better, and Parker got dressed behind his chair. We popped in a movie and finally turned out the lights on 3 tired boys at a 11 p.m. And of course everyone was up by 7 a.m. I put myself thru the torture of making star wars pancakes again, served up with chocolate milk. And after breakfast, more wii, more outside play and after a  lego building contest, the boys were gone. And it was a ton of fun. Such sweet, fun loving, innocent little boys. I loved it and so did Parker, and Cooper for that matter since they were kind enough to include him on almost everything. We will definitely do a sleepover again, maybe not too soon, since it left in its wake 2 very tired and crabby boys. And actually Cooper 2 days later has been in bed all day with a 102 degree temp. Probably not related, but the lack of sleep probably didn't help his immune system. Yay for little boys, frogs and snails and puppy dog tails. Enjoy the pics and brief clip of the future of WWF.