January 1, 2005 - Saturday
The boys liked the "sleep over" so much they wanted to do it again. And why not? We'd originally thought we leave it for special occasions, but tomorrow isn't a school/work day and if they're together when they wake up there's a good chance that they won't come into our room right away, but rather play together for a while. With tomorrow night being Sunday, and an easy "no" because it would be a school night, we figured they'd be fine for another night. This time they probably talked for 45 minutes, but that's fine, I figure they're just bonding.

In fact, I've been thinking about this idea of a sleep over since Aunt Lisa brought up the intriging idea that she might have Chloe and Andre share a room for a few years even though they have enough rooms in their house. Her thinking begins with the realization that just about everyone she knows who shared a room with a sibling as a child seems to have closer relationships as adults and that maybe sharing space forces learning and accommodating. And, while American's tend to view giving each child a room as something of a status thing (I can buy a big enough house), Europeans, including Uncle Ben and his younger sister, and indeed much of the rest of the world, view sharing bedrooms as quite normal. I did share a room with my brother until I was 5 and have very vague memories of that, but I do remember he and I rigging up some kind of short-range two-way radio so we could talk at bedtime. It was a novelty and didn't last too long, as I remember, but it stands out as a memory from our earlier school years.

When we do the sleep over the next time, we'll need to figure out a better solution for the day bed. Jeremy fell out of it twice. Maybe Harry should use the day bed, although he'd have even less room in it than his brother.


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