My baby boy melts my heart

While it has now officially pretty much only taken me two weeks to potty train my 2 year old daughter, I am occasionally still battling my almost 4 year old son with it (luckily pretty much everyone I know said "boys are just so much harder"). While he was sitting on the potty the other night, he was just looking at me and I was wondering to myself "what is he thinking about". Out of the blue, he just looks at me and says, "Mommy, I like your pretty eyes". Yep, my heart instantly melted! I love my babies....they are just so sweet!

House updates

View down the hall upstairs from the gameroom to the entry way

It's been a while since we got to take some pics of the house! We've got a roof now, and electrical is pretty much done, the a/c is in....but there's still a long way to go. It'll be done some day!

Holiday Identity Crisis

Putting out the Milk and Cookies for Santa

We were making cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve...Chelsea came out of her room and wanted to be a "pin-cess", so I was ok with that. Then Ethan, remembering that was her Halloween costume, immediately wanted to wear his Spider Man costume. Who am I to stop them? Ethan did a good job on the cookies. When I told him the next morining that Santa ate the cookies, he said "That wasn't very nice". He simmered down when he realized Santa didn't eat ALL the cookies we made!

Can you tell he got "busted" in this picture eating the dough?

Nice try, Chelsea!

a few days before Christmas, Chelsea decided her feet were cold and these would do...

she ultimately decided they were too big, and that she'd much rather just let Santa put toys in them!

Disney Day 5-Magic Kingdom

I'm glad we did Magic Kingdom in 2 days. There's just so much to see and do. Lets you kinda relax and take it all in, and actually let the kiddos play, not just drag them from ride to ride. They were so good for the entire trip. I was very sad it was our last day there :(we had breakfast at the Polynesian Resort--that place looks and even SMELLS the same as when I stayed there over 20 years ago!!

Chelsea wasn't big enough to ride most of the rides, but she didn't care. She loved getting pushed around in her stroller, taking naps, and having food readily available, and she LOVED live shows! This was her first roller coaster--Goofy's Barn Stormer. She was so cute saying "weeeeeee" over the humps and dips.

There's a cute little play area between Fantasyland and Tomorrowland for the little ones to play. They had a ball, and it's a good break for mom and dad. I love this second picture...Ethan coming down the slide head first ready to bulldoze his sissy!

Disney Day 4-Magic Kingdom

We finally made it to the Magic Kingdom for day 4. I totally recommend doing the other parks first, then Magic Kingdom last when you have little ones--it's like the BIG finish!

We had breakfast with Tigger, Pooh, and gang at the Crystal Palace that morning. Chelsea was again shy whenever the characters came around, so that's why I love this first pic...it's like "what? where's Tigger?"

family shot with Pooh

Me, Ethan, Wendy, Morgan, and Ally on Splash Mountain-Ethan LOVED it, rode it over and over. Oh yeah, Uncle Jerret and his dad "paw paw Dan" were on it with us this time, too!

Ethan, Daddy, Uncle Jerret, Ally and Morgan on Splash Mountain


I thought the Castle looked awesome once it got dark and they had all kinds of purple lights shining on it....then the Fairy Godmother came out and started babbling on and on about wanting the castle to be decorated special for Cinderella for Christmas. Boy were we surprised when she finally stopped talking and waved that wand and the lights started flickering on! It was incredible! I had never been to Disney around Christmas before and they sure deck the place out!

Disney Day 3-Epcot

To start the day off right for Epcot, we all had breakfast at the Wilderness Lodge Resort. It was a beautiful resort, and it was a HUGE breakfast! Highly recommend it!

(me and my sissy)

(Ethan and Chelsea at Epcot)

(Morgan and Ethan in Japan--we ate lunch there)

(Ethan with his Mickey ice cream)

(family pic inside Bruce)

(they had a blast-we closed down the park). We had super-late dinner reservations for the

Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue (click for more pics)

(Chelsea getting ready for some chickin and ribs!)

At the end of the show and meal, everyone starts to wave and twirl their napkins around....Ethan frantically found the nearest one--that happened to be full of food and crumbs--so
bits were flying everywhere! Morgan obviously found it amusing!!

They also bring out washboards for all the tables to play along! It's such a fun show, and SO worth it, even if you have to wait until 9:30 at night to eat dinner!