Reunion, and Bedtime at Our House

Okay, I had to wait to post this until one of the subjects of the post put up her photos, which I've stolen since we still do not have a functioning camera, aside from the one on my iPhone 3, and that one is kind of pathetic. ANYHOW...on Saturday, I took the kiddos and headed over to Christina's house to hang out for a few hours with her and Emily, a friend/former coworker who moved out of state a few years ago. At the time of that move, Christina (who is the friend/former coworker who was also Ava's babysitter extraordinaire for a year and a half) only had one child, Emily and I had none...now we have six between the three of us! Anyhow, Emily was in town for a few days so we did a little former FA employee reunion and chatted while the kids played. It was so nice to catch up...we met Emily's sweet Sophia and I met Christina's baby girl, Anna, who is ten days younger than CJ. Ava had a BLAST with Will and Adeline, who are like siblings to her--she also enjoyed entertaining Sophia. It was a great morning and I wish we all lived closer to one another!

 Former FA Girls! Emily, Christina (with Sophia), Melissa

My sweet little boy

 

Ava and Will entertaining Sophia

Ava playing with Will and Adeline...she loves them and talks about them frequently even though we don't get to see them much.

 Adeline playing with Sophia

Bedtime at Our House

Ava can be very difficult at bedtime...for awhile, we had major issues with her where we had to sit in her room until she fell asleep, and then at some point during the night she'd end up in our room anyhow (we made her sleep on the love seat in the sitting area, but it was still not cool). I managed to work with her and FINALLY get her to fall asleep on her own and mostly stay in her room, although she has frequent nightmares and will cry out and occasionally still come to our room. More recently she's taken to getting up and running around after I've put her to bed. Sometimes she goes right back down, sometimes it requires a spanking or at least the threat of one. Tonight, I was feeding CJ when she decided to get up...Mom was hanging out in my bedroom and had already confronted her once (Ava said she thought she saw a ghost and heard a strange noise, and was searching for "clues." What a character...!) so we decided to ignore her. We heard her for awhile, saw her peek in once, and then silence. When I went to put CJ in his crib awhile later, this is what I saw upon exiting my room:

Kid was PASSED OUT in the hallway, even with the hallway lights blazing. She didn't even wake up when I carried her to bed! Wondering if maybe ignoring her is the way to go from now on, maybe this is just a passing phase...aren't they all?

Aaaaaaand on that note, guess who just showed up at my bedroom door. Good grief. I better go....