Aidan had her first friend sleep over last Saturday. Our friends Emily and Mark invited her to stay the night with their son Tristan. We didn't hesitate of course. We dropped her off at dinner time, they took a bath, watched a movie, and played- they even took her to church in the morning. We totally thought about going out for breakfast, but I chose to sleep in which I never get to do and it was AWESOME!
Because we haven't been on a date forever Brad and I went out to dinner at Outback because we used to love the steak, good not great this time! I always think about this episode of Will & Grace where they are out to dinner with the couple they met in college who they have game night with and this couple is complaining about the trendy restaraunt food and the fact that they wanted to go to Olive Garden because the food is always good, so W&G hook up with this sheik couple who are totally trendy and wild. Yeah we're the married couple eating at Outback, we love the Olive Garden too (even though they rip you off on the olives in the salad)! Side note (Cathy's totally going to laugh) I love Olive Garden's "SuperSalad" (long story short: my sister Cathy watched me order "SuperSalad" for a to go order and she just let me go on and on when they asked me "soup or salad" I thought they were asking if I wanted their "SuperSalad" and I would answer "yes". The baby sister torture doesn't end as a kid, it's for life!) OK- back to my story... after dinner we went to see "New in Town" with Renee Zelwiger and Harry Connick Jr.. I think for the average person it was a shmoopie cute chick flick, but for Brad and I it was more hysterical. It's set in small town Minnesota and the women scrapbook- yikes! Brad and I just about peed our pants when this lady was showing RZ's character a scrapbook about her dead dog and cat... I was crying a little inside- that's ME! I have a scrapbook about my dead dog Raleigh and I have shown it to people! And our dead cat BooBoo peed on our couch so then we called him Poppy (from Seinfeld). Oooh Yeah-that's me, don'tcha know!
When we got home though it was weird without Aidan. Brad, the poor sap, got his laptop out to watch her song video!
When Emily dropped Aidan off in the morning she gave us a cd with some cute pics of their evening. Aidan was totally fine, which we expected. She did however do something odd. When Mark and Emily went upstairs to go to bed they 'checked the children' and Aidan wasn't in bed with Tristan anymore. They would have heard her if she came down the stairs, so they started searching upstairs for her. They found her in their closet with her blankie and all her animals she brought from home. I am so glad they got a picture of it before they scooped her up and out her back to bed! It's too cute. Emily thinks it's a girl thing, she wanted to feel safe and secure so she surrounded herself with shoes! It makes sense to me! When the party was over Tristan didn't want her to go, but Aidan just wanted to 'come say hi' to us. I like that she is secure enough to go off with her friends, but after a reasonable time away she wants to check in with us.
Aidan has been talking all week about her sleep over and asks everyday when Tristan is going to sleep over at our house, soon I'm sure. It's such a great thing to have someone to swap with now.
