New Habits

A little more than a week ago Sanjay invited his first friend to our house for a sleepover. He's been watching Priya have sleepovers a lot lately and finally it was his turn. It was with his best friend who is a little more than 2 years older than him. There are not words to explain the excitement that Sanjay was feeling that night. He was more rebellious than ever; he loved having someone around to crash cars with him full-time. It was a night filled with smashing stones, pillow fights, indoor ball throwing, toy banging and clanging, and very loud voices. Priya was out of the house at a sleepover so it was all boy play. You can see from the picture how much Sanjay adores his best friend.



Anyway, since that night... Sanjay has developed some new habits to be just like his buddy. For the past 3 nights he has slept without underwear, because he tells me "Alex sleeps without underwear". And then tonight he told me he wanted to sleep with his socks on because "Alex sleeps with his socks"... but this one lasted all of about 10 minutes. After I finished reading the story, he decided it might be more comfortable to take them off. Actually, I don't know if it was comfort he was after or if it was the tossing them across the room that he was looking forward to. Either way, he is now sockless.

If he's going to be picking up new habits from his friends... at least Alex is a good choice. He's a good kid and I'm thankful for that because tonight Sanjay informed me, "Mom, I'm just like Alex".