Sleepover

Jadon has his first sleepover this weekend.  His friend Matthew came to visit.  Matthew is also a little person and he is a year older than Jadon.  He lives in Olympia, WA (about 1 ½ hours from us) so we don’t get to see him too much.  Matthew didn’t have school on Friday so Kalina and I met him, his mom and sister in south Seattle and brought Matthew home with us.  Matthew happily played with Kalina for the hour we waited for Jadon to come home.  The boys had a lot of fun playing the Wii and having light saber duals.  On Saturday morning, we all went to basketball.  Matthew played and I think he had a great time. He made some awesome shots!  After basketball, we met two of their other little people friends for lunch at Uncle Peteza’s.  The four boys had a good time seeing each other.  It was nice to be able to get them together.  We are hoping to do it some more in the future.  As Jadon says, “how often do I get to see other little people?” (besides Kalina, of course, but he forgets that sometimes).  It does not matter to them that they have different kinds of dwarfism (all four boys have a different kind); they just like being with friends.  We met Matthew’s mom for dinner Saturday night.    

I realized Kalina was feeling a little left out of the fun.  She considers pretty much everyone her friend and snuggled next to Matthew on the couch while the boys played the Wii.  Friday night she declared she loved Matthew and wanted to sleep downstairs with the boys.  I did manage to get her upstairs with me.  I thought perhaps on Saturday afternoon, she and I could leave the house, giving Jadon, Matthew and Andy some guy time.  Kalina refused to leave “her boys” (all three of them) so we stayed home and just played in another room.  She was good with that.    

What a fun time we all had!