Confession

Hannah wore her pajamas all day yesterday. That includes to baseball and softball practice last night. She is still wearing THOSE pajamas today.

Caleb

Caleb is a very special little boy. Sometimes he gets  a bad rap, because he exasperates me. He is a very loving boy. Yesterday  he knew I was leaving to sing at church...he just didn't know when. He came to give me a hug and kiss goodbye every few minutes until I left. I asked him what was up, and he told me he wanted to make sure he got to kiss me bye. Those are the times he melts my heart. He had a deep (for him) moment on Valentine's day. He was frustrated because he wanted to wear a Valentine's shirt. I told him I didn't know what he was talking about. He explained it to me. He wanted a heart shirt. I told him I didn't think they made those for boys. He said, "It doesn't matter...boy shirt or girl shirt. It doesn't change who you are." WOW! Who knew he had it in him?

Lost and Found

As the parent of a toddler...or is she a PreK'er now, a thick headed boy, a moody girl, and a forgetful preteen boy, I am ALWAYS looking for things. Usually it is shoes...Hannah's shoes. This is at least a once a week thing. We have now learned to look for church shoes on Saturday nights. It makes for a somewhat easier Sunday morning. Speaking of shoes, I had to buy Hannah some new shoes last week. She left her Tinkerbell tennis shoes outside and Comet ate them. She loves her new shoes. She calls them her "fast shoes." So, Monday I sent Hannah to get her shoes on, because we had to go to the grocery store. She of course couldn't find ONE of them. She swore she put them in the closet, and that is where she found the one. We looked and looked...and looked, no shoes. Samantha cleaned her room AND closet. The rest of us cleaned the rest of the house...still no shoe. I get mad when we have to look for the same thing over and over again...especially when we have gone over and over where shoes go. Needless to say, when I was finally at the end of my rope, I found the shoe. The shoe was on the TOP shelf of the closet on top of some games. I just assumed Hannah threw her shoes, and it ended up there. NOT! I showed Josh and Samantha where I found the shoe. They both laughed. Then I asked Hannah how her shoe got up there. She laughed, and said, "OH yeah! Josh put it there." What? Josh was one of the kids helping look for the shoe! I called him in, and he thought about it. He finally remembered putting the shoe up there. He was trying to get a game at the same time Hannah was putting up her shoes, so she gave it to him and told him to put it up. The games were starting to fall, so he put it up there as he was catching them. Seriously...how does someone who spends 2 days looking for shoes not remember where HE put it?

The other thing I am constantly looking for is my keys. I even have a place to put them, but never do. When I was retelling the shoe story, I was reminded of a key story from years ago. I am pretty sure I was pregnant with Hannah at the time. We were trying to get out of the house to go somewhere. I looked for my keys for HOURS. I couldn't find them anywhere. I was just ready to sit down and cry...remember, I was pregnant. I don't know if I actually sat down and cried, but I did sit down. When I sat down, I found my keys hanging very nicely on the Christmas tree. Laugh or Cry? Pregnant, I did both!

What are you always looking for? Where is the strangest thing you have found it?

Disney World-Day 3

Day 3 was spent at Animal Kingdom. It was fun. We rode everything! We also watched the Lion King show. It was awesome. 

Before going into the park. (Caleb hated getting his photo taken) They were holding just a plain Christmas package. 

Hannah got her face painted while she waited for the big kids to finish a ride. 

We had great seats for this parade! This guy wanted the chocolate covered banana in Josh's hand. 

Josh wouldn't give it up! HA!

Marc rode Triceratops Spin with Hannah. 

Donald LOVED Samantha's hat!

Disney World-Day 2

I confess, I had to go back and look at the photos to find out what we did on day 2. I used to be so good at updating the blog...what happened? We spent day 2 at Epcot...also known as the golf ball park. It was a fun day with LOTS of characters, and LOTS of photos. 

Hannah got to ride Test Track for the first time. She would scream, and then laugh, and then scream again. She decided she didn't like when it went really fast in a circle outside. She also got to ride Soarin'. She got a little scared when we first went up in the air. In the end, she LOVED it! We also did quite a bit of the educational stuff there too.

We found Nemo!

The line for the Character spot was not enormously long. We knew we couldn't pass it up for the sake of Hannah. She LOVED getting to see all of the characters. Her favorite is Pluto! I think we had 4 or 5 different Pluto's sign her book. 

We had dinner with the Princesses at Akershus in Norway. Oh my goodness Hannah LOVED this. The princesses would come to the table and talk to her. Then they would sign her book and give her a hug. The food was excellent too!

After dinner we staked out our spot for Illuminations, Epcot's firework/laser show. We had a really good spot. Momma bear only had to come out once when a mom had her kid step over and nearly on the stroller to get closer. Caleb was sitting in the stroller at the time. The kid would have ended up standing right in front of him. There was lots of laying around, and of course lots of goofiness while we waited.

Here is a shot of the show!

You would think after a long day in the park they would sleep instantly! 

Disney World-Day 1

Way back at the beginning of summer, we decided we wanted to take a trip during Christmas break. We had a hard time deciding between skiing and Disney World. In the end, I decided I didn't want to get snowed in at an airport over Christmas, so we decided on Disney World. Thanks to insanely high airline ticket prices, we decided to drive. This of course meant Samantha would have to break her almost 3 year perfect attendance streak, but she was all for it. HA 

Our first stop at the parks was Hollywood studios. It was after 4 when we hit the park, but they had extra hours. I was really excited about seeing the Osborn Family Spectacle of Lights. Of course we had to wait until it got dark first, so we headed over to The Tower of Terror...probably not the best ride to start Hannah on. She did NOT like that ride, and spent the next few days complaining about all the rides being like that one. We did get to see the light show, and it was AWESOME!!!! We also decided to see Fantasmic. It is our favorite show.Then we followed the masses out of the park to the busses. 

In front of the Hollywood Studios Christmas tree

The Osborn lights

waiting for Fantasmic

Outside of our hotel...we were in the Lovebug (Herbie) section

I will try to not overload you with photos. Between my camera and the photopass I have nearly 800 photos. I am proud about only adding four to this post.