No jealousy at all, there's just no good way to say 'my husband and step-husband's friends should be mine too' without sounding it. Really it's because they make friends with totally awesome people and I'm... well, still not so good at doing that myself.
The urge for hairpetting is a totally natural reaction to those two, so, it's actually both understandable and encouraged, especially because it makes Soren make funny noises.
Sleep will probably do you more good than it does me, I'm a napper by nature, comes from being an energytarian I guess, don't usually need as much sleep as most people and sleeping for more than a few hours at a time usually means something's wrong.
If we're planning a mutual escape from hoverers, we'll have to come up with some kind of secret code or something, wouldn't want them knowing what we're up to, even if it is totally awesome fun minigolf and they could probably come too if they wanted.