Kevin and Sammie

Last weekend marked a milestone: both Kevin and Sammie spent the night at my house.

I had promised them when I moved to Utah that someday they could spend the night at my house. I expected that two things had to happen for "someday" to occur:

a) Kevin would have to be potty trained.

b) I would have to recover from the last time Sammie spend the night at my house.

Their parents dropped them off on Friday afternoon. Our first order of business was to ride their trike and scooter around my parking lot. This lasted approximately three minutes.

We took a trip to the grocery store, where we bought their dinner of choice: Macaroni and Cheese shaped like Spongebob Squarepants.

Following dinner, we decided to go to McDonald's for ice cream.

I'm not sure why the creepy Hamburglar windsock was hanging from the ceiling, but I couldn't take my eyes off it.

I made the mistake of ordering them each their own ice cream cone, while ordering a McFlurry for myself. It turned out they were more interested in playing at the play place than eating ice cream, and when they did decided they wanted ice cream, they were more interested in my McFlurry than they were in their own cones.

After ice cream, we returned to my house, where they got ready for bed.

I mentioned before that Kevin had to be potty-trained to be allowed to sleep over, which he is, at least in the daytime.

At nighttime, however, he still wears a diaper. His parents had run out of the diapers he normally wore to bed. But, being the resourceful woman that she is, Melanee improvised and found a few Disney Princess Pull-ups from when she was potty-training Sammie. At first, Kevin was reluctant to wear them. Then, Melanee did this:

Not only did it keep him dry, but the three of us laughed about it for five minutes.

The next day, I returned the kids to their parents' house, where I ended up spending most of the rest of the weekend. The Frosts were also there. Here is a shot of the kids with Dane, helping to mix some cupcake batter:

I apologize that Dane is not looking at the camera. It's pretty hard to get three children that young to all look at the camera at the same time.

And this one:

Kevin suddenly got very excited about building a tower on the fridge with his letter magnets.

See if you can spot the word he unintentionally spelled. You would have had to spend the weekend with him to know why it was extra funny.