more Disney picts

More Disney picts to share....there are just too many! The boys are happy to be back at home with their Star Wars toys and valentines. :) They are homebodies at heart.....

home sweet home

We returned today from 6 days and 5 nights in Disney World! Anyone who knows our sensitive, picky-eating, low endurance kids knows that we were extremely nervous about how they'd handle the chaos that is Disney. I'm happy to report that we survived! We had mostly good days on our trip. It was an exercise in patience for all of us. The kids had to endure long lines (at most 20 minutes) and long waits for parades, fireworks, and performances. The adults had to endure the kids. :) Ross & I are ready to go back by ourselves! We hadn't been since our honeymoon almost 9 years ago, and it's a VERY different experience w/o kids! We learned that Alex is deathly afraid of ALL the characters and any kind of dark ride (which is most of them). We learned that a meal plan package is a bad idea when you have super-picky eaters. We also learned that it's ok to eat ice cream for lunch and crackers and frozen cokes for dinner. :)

After all is said and done, Andrew's favorite things were the Star Tours ride and Jedi training in Hollywood studios and the Buzz Lightyear ride at Magic Kingdom (which we rode 5 or 6 times). Alex's favorite things were the Buzz Lightyear ride, watching an elephant pee on the Animal Kingdom safari and "buying things." I kid you not....that's what he said. :) We are tired (exhausted is more appropriate). We have sore feet and legs. We are ready to have our spacious house back with regular, non rock-hard pillows. We are craving decent food and non-Disney TV. We miss Mickey, but we were ready to come home today. Who knows...maybe we'll be ready to go back in a few years!

The view from our hotel (Pop Century). Yes, that's a 4 story big wheel out front!Trapped with Zurg at the Buzz Lightyear ride (their favorite--and daddy's!).One of the few character picts with Alex. He was not happy to be near a character!All of us at the Tree of Life in the Animal Kingdom.

USS Texas

Last weekend was Andrew's scout overnight to the battleship USS Texas. The boys got a tour of the ship, watched a movie about it, toured the deck, and had a scavenger hunt. Andrew didn't make it to the scavenger hunt (he doesn't last much past 9pm), but a little nap was a good thing once you see the sleeping conditions. I'm glad Daddy decided to go this one alone.....

Oh, and while I was home sick, this is how Alex was entertaining himself:Yes, he was wearing 3 baseball hats and riding his plastic tiger around the downstairs. He can be quite creative when left alone in his room for an hour...