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Toddler sleepover party.

Well, to be honest, the three year old girls were relatively easy to handle but all the crazy antics were set to the background of 500 decibel frantic screaming of a sixth month old that hadn’t pooped all day and was clearly the worse for wear because of it.  K2′s little sister, AKA ”Squishy”, and big bro were also at our house for a few hours while the parents took a short and much needed break to celebrate their anniversary.  If I were them, I would have headed straight back home and gone right to sleep in the peace and quiet of a house with no little people (K2 and Squishy) and one teenager (big bro) underfoot!

Anyway, the girls had their first taste of sleepover party a few weeks ago, when K went to their house for the night.  They reported that everything went pretty well, except our kiddo decided to come down with a cold the very day of the sleepover and so went to their house, trailing snot and a bad mood.  She did pretty well at bedtime even, but woke up in the course of the night pretty upset by being in a strange bed.  She ended up watching Noggin (yes, thank you Noggin for even providing middle-of-the-night brainwashing sessions) for a bit and then crashing on the couch for the rest of the night.  One  morning emotional breakdown later (over being dosed with Mucinex, no less) and she was home none the worse for wear. 

But karma says, if you send your kid out to her cousin’s house for a sleepover party, then the cousin will be coming to your house sooner or later.  And fortunately my younger brother and Mom were here to help with the mayhem…the house was definitely full to capacity! 

The girls were excited and noisy and super hyperactive.  Of course that could have had something to do with the fruit snacks, multiple juice boxes, and Easter peeps consumed during the evening.  Put all that hyperactivity in the same general locale as a screaming, poo-challenged infant, and I guarantee you will have an instant urge to drink heavily.  Or at least that was what it triggered in my mind.

They played.  And they scattered toys everywhere.  And they kept bringing handfuls of grass inside and sprinkling them all over the house.  And they bounced.  And they climbed.  And they ate pizza while the harried adults snatched a few bites in shifts.  And then–

We made cookies.  Well, not really.  OK I admit, when it comes to toddler sleepover parties, even though the girls love to help with baking, it’s just so much more time effective to use those lovely tubes of pre made sugar cookie dough.  With the heat in the kitchen, it made it pretty hard to work with the sticky dough but we persevered (thanks FF) and had some crazy cookie cutter / nuclear flour explosion times. 

The real challenge came when it was time to frost the cooled cookies.  (pre made frosting too of course; I was a cluelessmom on a time effectiveness mission.)  Now, I didn’t expect the girls would have difficulty with this stage because they’ve frosted and decorated cupcakes a few times in the past.   But as usual with kids, NEVER MAKE ASSUMPTIONS.  I’m pretty sure that if I hadn’t intervened, (even though they had a two-cookie-per-kid-allotment), it would have taken approximately 6.5 hours to finish smearing half a centimeter of frosting on each cookie.  My patience was totally shot by the time we got to sprinkle territory.  I’m going to make really sure that FF understands it is his duty to shoot me if I ever suggest sleepover cookies again.

Bath time was merely an excuse to have a couple minutes of cookie recovery time.  Shampooing or actual scrubbing? Hah!  All the dirt, grass, sugar, juice, poo, and frosting comes off while just playing in the tub anyway, right?

Squishy finally pooed, fell asleep, and got collected again by her parents.

The girls finally got clean-ish, dressed, brushed, and tucked into their sleeping bags.

But the rest of the cookies?  Might just stay unfrosted.