On Tuesday, Willie was going to come to our house for a sleepover. Willie's mom called me in the morning and invited the boys over to their house for a few hours. I dropped them off and ran some errands. I picked the boys and Willie up around 3:00 and we drove back to our house. They had a great time at Willie's house.
The boys started playing as soon as they got in the house. They were in the house playing video games and then outside playing soccer or basketball. We had hamburgers for dinner, which Willie and SJ loved! Bob was not in the mood for hamburgers, so I made him and myself chicken fries.
After dinner, the boys continued to play until it was movie time. We had rented Madagascar 3 from the Redbox. Although Willie had seen it the night before, he kindly sat through it again. I could hear lots of laughter coming from the basement. Three boys and one man's laughter. What a great sound! After the movie was over, it was time for the boys to go to bed.
SJ started coughing that evening pretty badly and I was worried it was going to keep Willie up. Fortunately, it didn't. Willie slept right through the noisy coughing fits.
The next morning, I ran to the store to get the boys donuts. Willie requested Boston cream donuts. I got his request and the boys' favorites too. They gobbled up their breakfast and were off to play. They played until lunch time. Shortly after lunch, SJ had another friend coming over. Lincoln is a friend of SJ's. He is not in his class, but he was last year. They play very nicely together. They played video games for a little while and then I took all four boys bowling.
Bob was a little crabby on the way to the bowling alley. He said he wasn't going to bowl. I said that was fine, but the rest of the boys were going to bowl. He changed his tune as soon as we arrived at the bowling alley. When I asked the other boys what their shoe sizes were, Bob piped up with his shoe size as well. I knew he would change his mind as soon as we got there, but I kept that thought to myself.
The boys had a great time bowling. They bowled two games each. Lincoln won the first game and SJ won the second. Bob lost both games. Bowling is definitely not his best sport, but you can't be good at everything. We drove back to our house after bowling. Lincoln still had about an hour until I had to take him home. Lincoln and SJ went upstairs to play Wii and Bob and Willie were on the XBox.
When it was time to take Lincoln home, I asked SJ to go with me. He didn't want to go, but I reminded him that is what you do when you have a friend over. He complied, but I am still not sure if he knows why that is socially necessary. That will be a skill that I will have to go over with him again.
When we got back from dropping Lincoln at home, SJ joined in playing with Willie and Bob. We had to eat a short while later. I had made what the boys call "wood". It is a crock pot beef roast that I cover with onion soup mix, a cup of brown gravy and beef stock. Everyone loves this dish, except my boys. They call it wood, since it sort of looks like that after I shred the beef. Willie loved it! It was nice to see a kid enjoy something I made. I wish my boys liked more of my dishes.
After dinner, Bob and Willie had soccer practice. So our day, night, day of hanging with friends ended at 6:00 p.m. That was a fun 18 hours for the boys!
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