Queen of Rambles

My baby! Where’s my baby! It’s so quiet here!

Erik had his first ever sleep over last night. I think 3 1/2 is a little young for that, but we are going to be taking care of his little friend Irish Lad towards the end of October while Welsh Lass is born. Dr. Saturn is planning a home birth and Irish lad will need to be out of the house, lest he jumps in the birthing pool and starts swimming while his mom is popping out a baby.

Dr. Saturn wants to make sure everything goes smoothly, so she suggested that we have a few practice overnighters when parents are all available to jump in the car at 2 am and rescue the boy if things go south. Hopefully the practice will lead to a smooth birthing night/day/whatever.

She wanted to make sure it was fair to us, just not us having their son over multiple times, so Erik had his first taste of a sleepover last night.

We talked about it all day and he was excited, but at one point he told me “Mommy, I was just kidding. I’m not sleeping at Irish Lad’s house.” He quickly changed his tune when we arrived and informed us that he was staying there forever. The good Doctors didn’t quite agree.

Anyway, we stayed through bedtime and Mike helped settle him down at one point. We thought for sure Irish Lad would be down first because he was exhausted, but Erik beat him by a few minutes. They were finally both asleep at 9:30, but we hung around until 10:30 watching Coupling and chatting.

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We just got back from picking Erik up at his sleep over. Apparently it went great. He was up in middle of the night, wanting my friend to sit with him but he didn’t cry or anything. The only great drama we had was getting him home. He really meant the “forever” part of wanting to stay forever. Success! I can’t believe my little baby was away from me all night. That’s the first time he’s ever been away. We don’t have family near by so he has never had occasion to go on an all-nighter.

And now I have to go off to the dollar store to buy crap for a pool party this afternoon. I also have to figure out what to take as a side dish. It’s so damn hot I don’t want to turn my oven on, so this should be interesting.

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