Girls Night Out

On Saturday night the girls and I went to my sister Amy's house to hang out with two of my other sisters (Michelle and Jordan). Of course Mira, Michelle's 3 month old baby girl, was there too. Shortly after I arrived, my parent's also showed up. My mom wanted to join us for the "girl's night" and so my dad drove her from Greensboro to Raleigh just to hang out with us. Dad tried to leave us to to do our girl thing, but we wouldn't let him go. So it turned into a girls and one boy night.

Amy and Rob recently got their hands on a Wii... and this was the main reason for our get together. We played some sports for a while: I did horrible at bowling, as always. Amy won, and Angie came in second over Michelle. Then we played tennis. Jordan, Michelle and Ally played most of these games, and they were quite humorous to watch. They jumped around in the living room almost as much as the characters on the TV screen, without the crazy dives that the Mii's tend to do when playing tennis. Then it was baseball. Let me digress a bit to tell you that before we started playing, Jordan and Amy created "Mii's" for everyone in attendance as well as their significant others. They even made one for Mira. So as they were playing baseball, it was usually one of our family members up to bat or playing the field. It was pretty funny when Mira, who was playing first base, got Michelle out on a pop fly. Rob got Amy out on a quick play at shortstop, and Paul got Ally out at second base. All the coincidences were hilarious. We then spent the next couple of hours playing Kabooki, which is the Wii version of Cranium. That was a lot of fun, even though some of the things were hard to figure out. Time really flys when you're playing that game, and before we knew it the clock was pushing 1am.

Sometime around 11pm Angie decided she'd had enough. Also, she had been hounding me for the last hour to let her hold Mira. All this time Mira had been napping on my chest. I had tried to pass her to Angie earlier, only for Mira to wake up and start crying. I quickly rocked her back to sleep, as a dejected Angie stood by and watched. So when Angie started to yawn so big she could catch tennis balls, I decided to encourage her to lay down in Amy's spare bedroom. She refused to leave Mira's side, so I offered to let Mira lay down with her. Michelle was adamant that when I put her down on the chilly bed Mira would instantly wake up, but I think that Angie's snuggling up to her helped warm her quickly, and she didn't even make a peep. It didn't take long for Angie to succumb to her exhaustion, and little Mira was snug as a bug in a rug. Here's a picture of them snuggling together. =)

Angie & Mira snoozing together.
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