The Prince Has A Playdate!

The Prince had a play date today from 9:00AM until 12:30! One of our neighbors (the ones who invited us to swim at the YMCA last week) invited the Prince over to play with their 5 year old son. All reports of the play date have been positive! The Prince was said to have been polite, to have included his host's three year old sister, and to have eaten all of his lunch! This was a brand spankin' new experience for all of us, but no one took it harder than...the Princess.

Usually it is the Princess who gets to go places without the boys. She has gone to birthday parties, play dates, and school events without them. Usually the Prince is left behind. So, when it was the Prince who was invited and not her, she was pretty upset. Luckily, I had an activity already planned for this morning: shopping at the grocery store. (For those reading between the lines, that meant that I got to go grocery shopping with two kids instead of three! It was like having the morning off!)

The Princess was pretty content with her lot in life until we got home from the store. On the drive home she asked me if we could stop over and check on how the Prince was doing. The Princess is a smart cookie. She knew that if we checked in on him, she would get to play too. I had to say no to this one because we had to get the groceries out of Otis the Van and into the house.

After the groceries were put away, it was time to get lunch. The Prince was invited to have lunch at the play date, so this was yet another reminder to the Princess that she had been left out. She honestly could not make up her mind what to eat! She rarely has to have lunch without the Prince when she is at home. Their game is to go back and forth suggesting things to eat and then they make the decision together. She ended up not eating lunch until after the Prince came home because she could not make up her mind. The Knight had his customary Peanut Butter and Jelly.

When the Prince was delivered home from his play date, his friends stayed for about 45 minutes so I could catch up with their Mom and the kids could play. The Princess went bananas trying to get everyone's attention!

I think this was good for her. Her little world will be back to normal on Saturday when she is invited to a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's without the boys. I think I will bring the Prince anyway though. Even though he will not be included in the party he can still play and I can get him his own little pizza.

Can you tell I was a younger sibling? I really feel for the Prince and I am glad that he had a chance to be Top Dog today.