Success!

So, after our first failed attempt to have Asher have his first sleep-over at Nana’s, he was successful on the second try.  He spent the whole night at his Nana’s house – even Kiera spent the first half of the night there. 

He and Nana were having so much fun with popcorn and movies that he didn’t even consider the coincidence that his sleepover coincided with his Dad’s birthday – which just happened to fall on the Chinese New Year – and in the year of the Dragon which just happens to also be his Dad’s Chinese Zodiac sign. 

He was having so much fun that he didn’t have time to waste with the regular child paranoia that the parents are having fabulous parties with music and friends and cake that kids tend to have when you so much as leave them alone in their rooms at night. 

Which was a good thing, because of course, we just had a nice quiet evening at home.*

The next day he declared that he had such a great time that he said he wanted to do it again right away!  

And he actually got his wish, two days later I came down so badly with one of Kiera’s daycare viruses that we figured it was just better to have Nana pick Asher up at school for his music class, and then keep him for the night in the hopes that it would be a quick virus (it wasn’t, I was in bed for a WEEK.  I don’t remember the last time that happened) and we could avoid exposing him (we couldn’t, but at least he didn’t get it as bad). 

And he had such a nice time at that sleepover, that he keeps mentioning having more.  We’re going to have to be careful that he doesn’t just decide to move out completely!

*I will admit to feeling a particularly sharp pang of guilt when he came home to find the house covered in Chinese New Year decorations and he said “Mommy, the house looks sooo beautiful!  We should have people over for a party!”