Adele's Big Sleepover

My sister and her family are in town this weekend. Adele had her first sleepover at her cousin's house on Saturday night. I hoped to be able to have her sleep over at my house too.

Prior to her visit, she asked her mom questions like, "Does aunt Dee-Dee have a swimmin' pool in her backyard?" Nope, but Dee-Dee had a river.

Adele has several food allergies, so I worked hard to prepare a menu that would be suitable to her taste, my preference for local, non-processed foods, and her allergies. I came up with organic yogurt with home-made jam/honey/maple syrup stirred in, homemade bread (without egg, oatmeal, or peanut. The peanuts were easy. I had to try harder to find a recipe without the eggs - and then forgot to add yeast, as I previously posted) with jam, cheese and sausage, and popcorn. Oh, right, and, whatever vegetables her little heart might desire.

Michael and I worked hard to remove breakable/hazardous items from Adele-level. I've never had a two year old sleep over at my house before! I washed all of Oliver's blankets (and gave Oliver a bath) because I know Adele loves to lay in Gizzy's dog bed at MeMaw and Bapa's house.

They arrived to Madison late, had a dip in the pool, and Adele declared she still wanted to have a sleepover at Dee-Dee and Mital's house. (She didn't yet know that we don't have an art desk.)

We got to Portage around 10:15 or 10:30. I had to try three times, but Adele was in bed and nearly asleep by about 11:15 - that's 12:15 her time! In the process of going to bed, she learned where Untal Mital's desk is, and discovered that while Dee Dee has markers (not monsters), she does not have an art desk. Also, Adele noticed that Aunt Dee Dee did not have a little table for Adele, and only had one table in the kitchen (none in the dining room).

Undeterred by a short night's sleep, she woke up ready to go at 6:50 Sunday morning.

Here's a taste of what we did before leaving for Madison around 11:15:

We ate breakfast. Adele really likes MeMaw's raspberry freezer jam!

After breakfast we took Ol'ver for a walk down to the river. We put our feet right in the river by the "fishes"! And we got to pet Milton (our neighbor's dog) on the way. (No pictures.)

After our walk, she put her pajamas back on. Then she wanted to help make dinner. So we shelled a few peas.

Adele found Oliver's bed. Oliver wasn't quite sure what to think about a little girl in his bed.
He tried to snuggle with her.
Then Adele made a princess dress out of Oliver's blanket.

While she had her own toys at Dee Dee and Mital's house, she thought it was a lot of fun to play with grown-up toys, like Great-Aunt Mary Jo's elephants.
Adele could line the elephants up by size.
She also really liked Untal Mital's seashell. Who lives in there?
Can you hear the sea?
It's not workin'.
She gave Oliver a lot of hugs
and kisses
and snuggles.

We took a ride on a ferry to get to MeMaw and Bapa's house, but Aunt Dee Dee doesn't know how to get the pictures from her cell phone to Blogger.

Tomorrow we're going to the Circus!