5 boys in matching pajamas: Max's Slumber Party!

Last week Max's dream came true: for his 7th birthday, some of his friends spent the night his first actual slumber party. Theme: Star Wars.

So first we made the cake. Yes, the Millenium Falcon.

Then the boys arrive. They eat some burgers and then sing Happy Birthday.



Then we go outside. We bought a lot of glow sticks, LED balloons, finger lasers, and painted the kids names to glow on rocks. And then we made them run around in the cold. Here is a short outtake:



Then the kids get in matching pajamas, and we show them how we set up the "Office" -- wall to wall air mattresses.



And Anna unleashes 75 feet of bubble wrap. We remembered to video this after they had already been running down the hall for about 10 minutes.



Then they go to the room, and watch Star Wars. In pajamas. With popcorn. All the other kids kept coming out of the room after whispering to each other that "Max's Mom will give you more ice cream." But Max and Olin were just excited to be up late.

At 10pm, about an hour after everyone "went to bed," I snuck into their room with my phone camera. Here is what I found:




Then for the morning: Anna had thought ahead, and bought all of the kids Legos. So that kept them quiet for about 30 minutes as we struggled out of bed.



Finally, at 9:30am, the kids were picked up. And we realized we had a whole day still ahead of us. But we did it, and actually loved every minute of it!