sleepover

We celebrated Elliot's 9th birthday earlier this week with a family dinner and cake, etc. But Saturday night I told him he could pick a meal and invite some frinds to sleep over. S0 he chose sushi for supper, and invited his little buddies over for the night.

I had expected to have 4 or 5 kids, but at one point last night, for a variety of reasons, we ended up with FIFTEEN children stampeding all over the house. It was bedlam.

By bedtime, we were back down to six kids. E's siblings had wisely decided to find other digs for the night (Henry went to Max's and Jane spent the night with her cousin Eleanor), so the little boys had the house to themselves.

They were all very cute. This is a wonderful age - second to fourth grade - and these are sweet little boys. Everyone got along very well and judging by Elliot's exhaustion today ( he has not moved off the sofa for hours), the sleepover was a roaring success.