Sleep over!

So Alex's parents went out of town and took their dog, but left ours (who's been living with them for almost two years now). So we've been hanging out at their place a lot with Oscar. (We can't even have a dog on our property so we have to go there.) Sorry I don't have a picture of him so those of you who haven't met Oscar let me just give you the reader's digest version of our history with Oscar the pug.
Oscar is on his tenth life, we discovered his unusually high levels of anxiety when he was about a year old when we left him for the first time while we went on vacation. We had to cut our vacation short and rush home because our Oscar had collapsed after throwing up all over Alex's parents house. But don't worry after some I.V.'s and a few days at the vets he was just fine. From there he's done a number of things like walk into oncoming traffic several times, get chased by an angry moose, swallow a fish hook, have a $2000 surgery to get said fish hook out (paid for by an anonymous donor) and now has some kind of strange yeast infection that is all over his skin.
So since we've invested quit a bit in this stupid dog Tate and Alex decided to sleep over tonight so that he wouldn't be alone. And that meant that me and Allie were going to have a sleep over at home. (Alex told Allie that she got to have a sleep over with mommy so I had no other choice :)
At first I tried just laying her down in her bed and then laying on the floor next to her. That didn't work because she wanted to sleep with mommy. So I pulled her out of bed and laid her on the floor next to me. I figured I'd just put her back in bed once she fell asleep, but all she could talk about was how I was laying on her princess pillow and using her butterfly blanket (She has a real hard time sharing with anyone!)
So I told her that I was just going to go to my bed and go to sleep then. That did it. She wanted to sleep in mommy's bed now. Okay. We can have a sleep over in mommy's bed. It was already almost 8:15 and she's usually in bed asleep by now so I figured we'd lay in my bed for a few minutes and she'd fall asleep and then I'd carry her back to bed.
Yeah right! She talked and sang and babbled about everything from Mickey Mouse to how the five little ducks go over the hills and far away and every ten seconds she stopped to ask the same series of questions: "Mommy, a daddy go? A Tayden go? A Oscar go?" I'd tell her they were having a boy sleep over and we were having our girl sleep over. That meant that she needed to go to sleep.
But then she had to go potty (yes she is getting the potty thing, though not so much the pooping on the potty thing) Then she had to put her flower sticker on her potty chart and get a treat before we could go back to bed. So then I tried a new tactic. Just like you do with a preditor, I layed perfectly still and avoided eye contact in hopes that she'd just forget I was there and go to sleep, but her preditor instincts were too good. I finally gave up and chatted and laughed with her until she was rubbing her eyes.
"Let's go read a book in your room now" I told her and and so we read a book and I layed her down and said goodnight. She went right to sleep. So our first sleep over only lasted an hour or so, but it was really fun. I hope the boys are having a good sleep over too.