Secret Hospital Sleepover Fun!

April 27, 2009

Today started out a little crazy.  They had to move us to a different room.  They had Airica in the PICU to keep an eye on her initially. However they needed the room for another child who was more critical, so they moved her to an overflow sort of room while they awaited a room on the pediatric floor that would be more permanent.  This overflow room was not fun.  It was a big room with several beds/cribs, and only curtain separating us from the patient next to us, and worst of all no Disney channel.  Actually no TV at all.  Yes, we almost freaked out!  This one thing is what almost set us over the edge...what about our secret sleepover?

In preparation for this secret sleepover we started asking around.  "So...how late can Alyssa stay and visit her sister?"  The best response we got was there are no set visiting hours (visiting is encouraged) but Alyssa could not "sleep" there.  So how we interpreted that was, that as long as she was awake she could say, right? Who really sleeps at a sleepover anyways?  

Daddy had went home and picked up the slippers, nail painting supplies, coloring stuff, Disney movies, and our favorite junk food.  But still we were in this horrible, unfriendly overflow room.  It didn't look good for the sleepover plans, and it sure didn't feel good.

Like I said it was a "secret" sleepover plan, but we had asked a few too many questions, so as it turns out many people kind of knew of our plan.  As we sat in our curtained corner of that uncomfortable room we see some of these "people" (we won't name any names to protect the guilty).  One is rolling in a TV, the one behind is caring a very long cable to make sure we get Disney channel, another with an extra food tray for our secret sleepover activities.  They arrange the stuffed animals and balloons around us as they create us this awesome fort-like area in the corner of this crazy room.  We are in awe of the transformation.

This was such a fun evening!  We sang, played, watched movies, painted our nails, ate junk food, almost like a regular sleepover.  Don't tell anyone but Alyssa didn't stay awake all night, but she slept next to her sister, right where she belonged.  

Still waiting...

p.s.  Thanks to all the sneaky secret people "not" mentioned above for one last sister sleepover!