Ella turns 9 this year and it seems it is the age that they start attending sleep over’s! Ella is a confident child when it comes to staying away from home. I think this has come from having Grandparents that lived in Norfolk when she was very young so she would go and spend half term breaks with them. Last night she attended her first Sleep Over Birthday Party. She was very excited and went off happily. The Mum had the girls phone home to say good night around 8pm which I thought was a nice thing to do. They all sounded rather hyper when she phoned. Ella said they had been painting their nails and had pizza and were now getting their pyjamas on and going to settle down to watch a DVD. Knowing Ella is a child who does everything she possibly can to avoid sleep I didn’t hold out much hope of her being asleep before midnight. I think it is quite a big responsibility looking after a group of 8/9 year olds over night and have to say I am not looking forward to May when it is Ella’s Birthday and she asks to have a sleep over. I never had, or went, to sleep overs until I was at least 13, but then everything seems to take hold a lot earlier in life these days – man I sound old!
I picked Ella up at 10.30, she was happy but uncharacteristicly quiet. The Mum said they had been chatting until past midnight and in the end she had, had to join them and sleep on the sofa downstairs. Apparently the more tiered they got the more they scared each other about people trying to break into the house! They had finally settled around 1am! The main thing is they all had a good time, but the aftermath of tiredness is trying to say the least. Thankfully it is the school holidays and Ella is good at laying in so I am sure tomorrow she will be back to her normal self, but really I do think maybe they are still a little bit too young for sleepovers and I may try to gently persuade her to have a different kind of party! I can hear it now – “Mum that’s so unfair!”
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