And you would think I would be back on birth control again!

This is a really long post- but I couldn't pass it up. So last weekend I decided to be about the coolest Aunt that ever lived and throw a little girl party for my nieces. Mike decided (with only a little persuasion from me) to throw a little boy party for all the nephews. I started out with a little invitation I sent to all the girls.

Included in the invitation was a checklist of the things that they needed to bring: their favorite lipstick, their favorite fingernail polish color, PJ's, and any other little girl thing that they wanted to. I also included a reminder for them that Girls Rule and Boys Drool!

Mike said that boys are cool and don't need invitations to know that there is a party (a pretty lame excuse so he didn't have to make invitations). I did ask him to at least call the boys, he didn't want to do that either, but I finally just dialed Austin's (Scott and Katie's little boy) number and asked to speak with him. So Mike reluctantly got on the phone with him and told him to bring all of his cars and that there is going to be a boys party Friday night. Well.... lets just say that Austin does not have a very long attention span, but he loves to talk on the phone. He would not be quiet! Mike would tell him something and then he would go off on something else-which you can't really understand. I was crying I was laughing so hard! Mike finally told Austin (in between one of his conversations with himself - or maybe it was with Mike, we aren't really sure who he was talking to) that he was going to hang up and then he just hung up on him before Austin could start another conversation. :) It was great!!! Mike insisted on not calling any of the other boys; for one, he probably wouldn't understand what they were saying (like the Austin incident) and two, they would not understand why Mike was calling and get nothing out of the call (like the Austin incident). So I gave in and it was up to the boys to come themselves.

I set up with the parents to bring all the kids at 6:00 Friday night and gave them VERY SPECIFIC instructions to be there at the very latest 9:00 the next morning. Yes! That is right, you read correctly, the next morning! I decided to do a sleepover party, I must admit, this is one of my braver moments in life.

Friday night rolled around and the kids showed up exactly at 6 (seriously? Would it have really killed them to be late?) and I had pizza and pop (another brave thing) ready for dinner. After we ate, which was a lot faster than I anticipated even with Scottie eating like 6 pieces of pizza.Back to front: Kamdyn, Macie, Brooklyn (a friends little girl) and Scotlyn.Left to right: Kadan, Rye, Nathan, and Austin in the front.

I realized that I had a LONG time before Mike was going to be home. What does one do with 4 pop-filled little girls, 4 pop-filled little boys, a dog (which I'm sure was given pop at some point that night), and 1 1/2 hours? A dance competition of course! :) HA HA HA! Now this is why I invite kids over! They are great!

During this dance competition I realized that one little girl was missing from the couch... this can only mean trouble. My mind quickly goes through the following questions:

1. Which little girl is missing?
2. Where is this little girl?
3. What did she get into?
4. What has she damage?

Now here are the rapidly fired answers in my head:
1. Yes... not suspicious at all- Scotlyn
2. After looking over and seeing little feet dangling off the bed- the guest bedroom

3. Out of all the little girl things that everyone brought, it just had to be- Purple fingernail polish

4. Don't worry, it only took me about 40 hrs to make- my new bedspread (which by the way, this is only ONE of the spots)So, after some tears because she got caught (which, Keri, if you were wondering why she had purple all over her mouth, she started crying and then put her newly purple painted fingernails.... scratch that...her newly purple painted fingers in her mouth) we went back to hanging out with the other kids again.

I walk into the living room and find one little boy teasing the girls, one little boy still break dancing, a little boy upset because he didn't get to choose the song that Austin break dances to, another little boy trying to change the song that is playing on the computer, a little girl yelling at the little boy to stop teasing her, another little girl pulling everything out of her purse, and another little girl trying to pocket a lip gloss for later.....I didn't even know where to start....

Then the heavens opened and an angel appeared....Thanks Mike for saving the night! So Mike got home, FINALLY (I think this is the only day that he didn't get home early...interesting... I will have to investigate that)! So after he was able to officially take over the "Boy Party", the girls were able to have the fun that we had been waiting for. First we all went into the guest bedroom and I gave them all rings and a princess crown.
Then we painted our fingernails with the polishes that they brought.Then we put on lipstick.
While we were doing all of this, the "Boy Party" was racing remote control cars (from the dollar store- so I think only one of them was working and it was just going in circles- oh well, they didn't care). After the lipstick and cars, the girls all rooted for the boys in arm wrestling competitions. Ha ha! Now that was funny!!



Boy was I pooped! My plan was to keep the kids up SUPER late and get them as worn out as much as I possibly could and then turn on a movie and they would all fall asleep and be out for the rest of the night. Well.... it was about 8:45. I was soooooo tired! Seriously? You wouldn't think that watching 8 little kids would be that hard... okay I take that back, most people wouldn't dream about it, let alone willingly take 8 kids for a sleepover, but I didn't think it would be THAT tiring. So we decided that we would turn the movie on early. We rented Horton Hears a Who and got all the kids ready for bed and tucked in so they could fall asleep... every flippin' one of them was wide eyed the ENTIRE movie. Really? Goodness gracious! By now it was about 11:00.

Next feat: BEDTIME

So the kids all brushed their teeth, and got into bed without any problems. Wow! That was not so hard, what are all these moms complaining about? Why was everyone telling me that a little girls slumber party "time to go to bed" time was not going to be fun? Easy as pie! All the boys except Austin were out withing 5 min. The girls weren't asleep yet but they were being good. I gave them all kisses and tucked them in and then Mike and I went to bed.

Are you kidding me? I totally should have knocked on wood.

Then all I hear for about 20 min.:

Austin: "Kaci, the girlz is talkin' and they aren't sleepin'!"
Kaci: "I know honey, it is okay, they will go to sleep in a min."
Austin: "Kaci, but theyrz is still talkin'"
Kaci: "Girls, go to sleep. Austin, you go to sleep too k buddy?"
Austin: "Okay"
Kaci: "Thank you bud"
Austin: "Uh huh."

....

Austin: "Kaci, the girlz is still talkin'- they didn't listen to you"
Kaci: "K- I'll talk to them, thanks bud"
Austin: "Uh huh" (I love the "uh huh" he said it probably 30 times that night whenever I told him thanks- like he knows he did something good).

This went off and on and then Austin finally fell asleep- the girls however were giggling for about 40-45 afterwards. About 6 different trips getting up and telling the girls to go to sleep so they wouldn't wake the boys, they finally were out. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... peace and quiet- ready for a good nights sleep!

Okay, honestly, how do people do this?

We finally got the little early riser back in bed after going potty and we went back to bed, except we couldn't sleep because we knew they would all be getting up soon. This is what it looked like about 20 min later: After rotations for everyone to eat breakfast, had all the kids get dressed and all of their stuff packed up, it was almost 9:00. Parents: You can be early to drop them off, but not pick up? Figures. :) The girls got a princess favor bag full of their rings, pink candy and their crown, and the boys got their car and a little baseball to take home from the party.

Things that I learned:

• Little girls don't sleep very well with other little girls
• Kids eat a lot more pizza than you would ever think possible
• 7 o'clock is not early for children
  
• Little boys like to show off in front of little girls
• Not all little boys are good at standing up when they go potty.
  

All in all, I think it turned out pretty good. It was a lot of fun spending time with the nieces and nephews and to make sure that it is still ingrained in their head that we are the favoritest aunt and uncle! Hopefully they will remember that for the next couple years, I'm not about to do that again any time soon. Hope you guys had fun!! Sorry Carsen and Kenzie couldn't make it- we missed you! LOVE YOU!