Karalee's first slumber party

We let Kara have a slumber party the weekend of the 18th. She has been begging to have one forever, and was even keeping a little journal with all the details of who was invited, what they would eat, and what they would do. She invited 9 girls from school, and 6 of them were able to come. 

Kiersten had one friend sleep over. they were so cute, trying to make sure they were separate from kara's group at first. As the night went on, they found that they did want to be part of the group after all. I was so busy trying to get Kiersten and Teagan to get closer to the other girls, that I didn't even notice all of the creative poses happening. 

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After dinner, they had a cookie decorating contest. I set out 4 bottles of sprinkles we've had for at least 2 years, and was shocked that every last sprinkle was gone within 5 minutes. 

The winning cookie! I was the judge, and Kara kept acting like she would obviously win, so she was quite surprised when she didn't. this little girl ended up saying she had a tummy ache after just 2 bites. 

I thought Kara had it all pretty well planned out in her little slumber party book, but she actually hadn't planned any games, so I helped her come up with a few simple ones. they played " I never..." but instead of being a drinking game it was a candy game. If they had done the thing that someone else said they never had, they were supposed to take a candy. I wasn't supervising too close, but noticed after a minute that they were taking a candy for pretty much everything. ( I can't believe 5 out of 7 girls have kissed a boy in their class) And one of them actually said, "I've never drowned and died." All 6 of the others took a piece of candy. 

After games, dress up, and some barbie play time, they all put on jammies, and had a dance party to Kara's new kidz bop cd. 

Ben arranged the family room so everyone would have a place to sleep. 2 of the girls were only staying for the party, and their parents picked them up around 11, so that made for some extra space. They all picked out a movie to watch. Kara had asked Ben to make himself scarce during the party, and he did for the most part. But 2 little girls took a liking to him and decided to sit and watch basketball with him while the others watched the movie. Then one by one they all made their way upstairs, so we just let them sleep in the livingroom, and put a different movie on up there. 

Kiersten and Teagan said they were going to sleep in kiersten's room, but they were out within 20 minutes, to sleep by everyone else. 

In the morning the girls played twister while Ben and I made breakfast. Some of them had never played it or even heard of it before. 

Then we took them down to play in the basement while they waited for their parents. Some of them colored on the windows with window crayons. 

The rest played WiiU.

I was a little surprised how loud and crazy they got. I always think of boys as being rowdy, and girls being more reserved and timid. But our house was insane. Kids were running everywhere, screaming at times, a few little spats, and one girl even got stuck to one of our mousetraps. but it was fun, and everyone calmed down when they were asked to. 

Ben spotted a box turtle in the back yard, so he picked it up to show to them. Everyone was very excited, and they all wanted to touch it, but he didn't let them.

hopefully the little guy isn't too traumatized by all that attention. 

I'm glad she finally got to have her sleepover. Now we can stop hearing about it for a while until she decided she wants another one. It was a little more intense than I expected, but something I'd definitely let her do again. Maybe next year.