A night with friends

My in-laws always have people over for "cocktails". I love that, it sounds so retro and cool. I decided to invite our friends over for cocktails. The friends in question are a military family. He is a high ranking marine, and she stays home with their two children, a high energy five year old boy, and an adorable three year old girl. This couple was, in my opinion, the only good thing that came out of the house we just moved from. We had a fun, easy-going night. Their tiny daughter fell in love with David. She called him "Boy" all night, even introducing him to her mother, that has known David for three years. "Mommy, this is Boy." The little girl kept grabbing grapes to bring upstairs, saying, "I need these for Boy." She also started going in Annie's toy closet and bringing things to David. When she brought all she could, she resorted to staring at him, her chin in her hands, while he played video games. For David, also known as Captain Personal Space, this was all a little challenging. I thought it was adorable.
The little girl's other great love was our male Yorkie. We have two Yorkies as well as a medium sized mixed breed. Our female Yorkie craves physical affection like none other. As long as you are touching her she's happy. It doesn't matter how awkwardly a kid holds her, or drags her along, the female is happy. The male on the other hand, thinks he is a 140 pound rottweiler, not a three pound little accessory. He gets confused and his pride get hurt when little tiny blond girls pick him up. He never snaps, or even grumbles, he just gets this bewildered look on his face and tries to get down. So of course, the little girl falls for the male. "There's my puppy, " she said every time she caught sight of him. I kept telling her how much the other puppy loves to be held, but the heart wants what the heart wants. Katie tried to rescue him by keeping him in her room, but the little girl found him.
Annie and their little boy have always been very good together. Annie is very high energy and pretty low drama, so boys love to play with her. We all kept the kids up later than we should have, because the adults were having so much fun. At almost 11:00 when they left, Steve and I plopped down to watch a little news, from upstairs I heard Annie say, "It's time to pause the news and put me to bed!" And, so it was.