Kiki Spends the Night

By now you all know about Sophie's best friend Kiki. This past Saturday, Kiki spent the night with us while Cynthia and Amir went to a wedding shower. It was Kiki's first night away from home without her parents, but she didn't even bat and eyelash as her Abba said goodbye.


The first thing Kiki said (Rhiannon - you'll appreciate this), was "let's play music and dance on the fireplace". For those of you who may not know, the safety of our fireplace is an ongoing discussion between me and Eric. It's a stacked stone raised hearth, and though we've got a rubber safeguard around it, Eric enforces (or at least tries to enforce) a strict no climbing on the fireplace policy. Our babysitter Rhiannon wasn't aware of this, and about 5 months ago she captured a hilarious video of Sophie and Kiki dancing to the "Twist Around" song on the fireplace. Kiki clearly did not forget this and knew exactly where she was headed. So we let them have a little dance on the fireplace until Eric's blood pressure started to escalate.





Dinner is always an adventure with these girls, as Kiki tends to get distracted and not want to eat much, and Sophie is usually a member of the clean plate club. Typically what happens is that Kiki will start feeding her meal to Sophie once Sophie has finished. This time they actually fed each other...



After dinner they played hide and seek, but their rules were a little different from the ones we all know. Once one was done counting to 10, the other one would yell out from her hiding place..."I'm in here!!". Then the rules changed again and whoever was supposed to "seek" would tell the "hider" where she wanted her to hide, before starting to count.









The evening was capped off by The Little Mermaid movie. Kiki decided she and Sophie would sleep on the couch, so she tucked Sophie in, and then had me tuck her in.







Finally, Bedtime! After having a small argument over which side of the bed they wanted to sleep on, they each grabbed a stuffed animal and cuddled up for a story, before receiving my mini lecture on how late is was and that they needed to go right to sleep. Believe it or not, they actually listened and adhered. I stood outside the door for a minute and could have heard a pin drop. Here are the before and after shots (only 25 minutes later).





We really enjoyed the night and morning with Kiki. Eric and I loved watching the girls talk to each other. They speak in complete, articulate sentences, full of logic, negotiation and humor. It's obvious how much they love each other...we look forward to many more sleepovers with Kiki!