1am Birthday Party

So Mary and Amanda arrived right around 12:30am on Saturday, and about half an hour later I decided to wake the baby up for a little birthday celebration. Because this is what responsible and smart moms do. They wake their 2 year olds up in the middle of the night for singing and chocolate cake. I couldn't help myself, I was so excited for Sylvie to see Mary and Amanda, and I knew she'd be relatively okay with the interruption. She was groggy at first but then suddenly woke right up and was ready to party. We got out the cake and a candle and sang the birthday song, and then Mary showed Sylvie the best way to eat some cake, with her fingers!


Sylvie loved it! And of course kept eating as much cake as she could get in her mouth. At 1am.

So here's the part where Mommy learned her lesson. Sometime around 1:30am John decided he was too tired to stay up anymore, and retired to bed. A few minutes later Mary and Amanda decided they needed to get to bed, having just been through the exhaustion of a plane ride, a very long car ride from the airport, and just the hassles and exhaustion of traveling. Which left me with a sugary and excited bouncy baby girl. I have to say, she was a real angel and went into her bed without a peep. I was sleeping in her room anyway (small apartment, 4 adults, I was on an air mattress in her room), so she ended up crawling into bed with me. She tossed and turned for the next TWO HOURS, but very quietly, so as not to disturb our guests of course. She's nothing if not polite! We finally fell asleep around 4am, and slept pretty well for the next few hours. Sylvie woke up happy and wide eyed at 8:30am, and proceeded to climb all over me and play in her room for 2 hours while the rest of us snoozed. I finally got up around 10:30am, because by this point Sylvie was dumping every piece of clothing she owned out of her dresser right onto my head, while saying "lake up mommy, lake up!"

I totally deserved it.