Just One (66/366)

Friday March 9, 2012

When you have 2 (or more) kids, you kinda forget what it was ever like to have just one.

Every now and again, you get a chance to just have just one.

Tonight, Hannah went next door to our neighbor's house to play with the boys, so it was just Ava, Matt and me.

For like, 3 hours.

It's amazing how different my second-born is when her older sibling isn't around.  She's never known what it's like to live as an only child, as Hannah did. 

And. She. Loves. Every. Second. Of. It.

She is such a different kid!  She is never whiny, SUPER funny (can't emphasize that one enough), well behaved, and just over-all pleasant.

Let me clarify that she is all of these things when her sister is around, but when she is the "just one", Ava is all of these things to the nth degree.

We played Candy Land.

We played Trouble.

We played Go Fish (about 10 times).

We had a dance party.

We made popcorn.

And you can't have popcorn without chocolate, so we had some of that too.

Never a bad second - the whole 3 hours.

When Hannah got home, it was late.  The girls very obediently put on their jammies, brushed their teeth and went right to bed.

The perfect evening.

Tonight, I am thankful for the memories of "just one".  No tug of war, just bliss.

But I'm more thankful that we had our "plus one" - I couldn't imagine my life without her.