-1"Hi Tyty," Caleb grinned, squirming out of his mother's arms so he could sit down next to Tyler on the floor.
"Caleb!" Tyler wrapped his arms around the other 3 year old, "Wacha doin' here?"
"Caleb's going to sleep over tonight, is that alright with you, Tyler?" Mrs. Danvers asked with a smile, kneeling down to be on eye level with the boys.
"Yeah!" Tyler nodded happily, his eyes lighting up at the thought. He liked Caleb the most out of all his friends; Reid was funny but sometimes he got mean and Pogue knew all the cool games but he liked to fight a lot. Caleb, though, he was calm and playful, the perfect companion for Tyler.
"I'll see you tomorrow, Caleb. It was nice seeing you, Tyler," Mrs. Danvers kissed her son's forehead and ruffled Tyler's hair before leaving, both boys waving goodbye after her.
"Wacha doing, Tyty?" Caleb asked, shifting to sit on his knees as he looked at the thing in front of Tyler.
"A puh… puh… puhz… puzzle!"
"My daddy likes to do those. Can I help?"
"Okay."
The puzzle was only a 10 piece one but it took the boys nearly an hour on it because it took them half an hour to realize Caleb was sitting on one of the pieces.
They had just put in the last piece when Mrs. Sims walked in.
"Look, mommy!" Tyler wrapped his hands his mom's hand and pulled her down so she could see that they finished the puzzle.
"Good job, Tyler! Did Caleb help you?"
Tyler nodded his head in response and Caleb smiled.
"Good job both of you! I bet your brains are tired from all that thinking, huh?"
Tyler and Caleb looked at each other then back at Mrs. Sims, shaking their heads as an answer.
"You sure you don't want to take a little nap? Just a little one? If you do, I'll give you another puzzle to work on."
Caleb and Tyler looked at each other again and nodded at each other before nodding to Mrs. Sims, who smiled and held her hands out as she stood. Tyler took one hand and Caleb, the other, and were led up to Tyler's room.
"And before your puzzle, do you want to have some lunch?"
"Yeah," Both boys answered, looking up at Mrs. Sims with smiles and nods.
"What do you want for lunch, then?"
"Can I have… peanut butter and jelly?" Caleb asked, "With milk?"
"Me too! Me too!"
"Alright, alright," Mrs. Sims chuckled and picked both boys up to set them on Tyler's bed. She took Caleb's sneakers off before tucking both of the boys in. "Call if you need anything, okay?"
"Okay, mommy," Tyler murmured, shifting around to get comfortable on the bed.
"Yes, Mrs. Sims," Caleb nodded, settling in next to Tyler.
Mrs. Sims smiled and kissed their foreheads before leaving the room.
"Caleb?"
"Yeah?"
"I don't wanna sleep."
"Me neither."
They climbed out of bed and went over to play with the toys in Tyler's toy chest.
When Mrs. Sims came back an hour later, she found the boys cuddled together next to some trucks and toy soldiers on the floor. She shook her head and picked the boys up carefully, laying them on the bed and tucking them in again.
Lunch would have to wait until later.
