The First of Many

The Girl is, as I type this, being initiated into a whole new world. A world of little sleep, junk food, nail polish, girl talk, and chick flicks. It's the world of sleepovers.

She's slept over at both of her grandma's houses before, and once she slept over at her cousin's house, but never has she hosted someone at her house before. I will say, I am a bit hesitant about the whole sleep over thing, both sleeping over, and having other children sleep over. So tonight, we started slow, and had her cousin over. I know, even as I typed that out, it sounded lame, but to the The Girl, it's the whole world. She has counted down the days for a week leading up to tonight. All day we talked about what the sleep over would be like, and how much fun she was going to have.

She has talked about what they will talk about and what they will do. They might watch movies, they may just sit around and talk (her mother's daughter for sure), they might to an art project, they might play games. It's hard to tell all that is possible when your cousin comes to spend the night.

So far they have:

1. Closed the doors behind them to every room they have gone into.
2. Ate chocolate chip cookies.
3. Watched Camp Rock (which I would probably not recommend).
4. Squealed and giggled at the part in the movie where it looked like the boy and girl characters were falling for each other.
5. Not stopped whispering (even though there is no one else to hear them).
6. Chatted about jewelry.
7. Painted toe nails and finger nails.

It should be fun to see how "late" they stay up tonight and listen to more giggles and whispers. Tomorrow, it'll be a french toast breakfast and maybe some more whispering and giggling, another movie, and maybe some talk about clothing.

Right now, they are looking at their elementary school year book.

I didn't even know they had such a thing.

And there's more giggling.

And tons of whispering.

Because no one else is in the room.

Some things just don't have to be taught. Sleepover behaviors are innate for little girls.