We saw the same Disney on Ice show not long after you!
I loved your animal kingdom lodge photos. So many amazing details. I would love to stay there. I would definately love to take Hannah there.
We just brought home a popcorn bucket and I am looking forward to using it at home, probably for popcorn!
Have a Happy Birthday Jill, and a great trip!
Your cake turned out great!
We're going to a different one in Huntsville in a couple of weeks, too.
I hope to stay at AKL someday, too. I want to do the sunrise safari, but you have to stay concierge, so that let's us out.
I'm going to tell Jill to bring me back another Halloween bucket as a souvenir. She is flying over
Dawn as we speak!
The Tow Mater truck was cool, wasn't it? We have so many talented Dis friends. Have you ever seen some of these ladies who sew? They're incredible!
twob4him and some others just create all these awesome outfits all the time!
Its getting cold up here too. I would love to hang out with Brooklynn and the the whole gang one day too. Least Grumpy Dad didnt ruin everyone's happiness, especially not brooklynn's.
Have a safe and wonderful birthday trip Jill!
It'll get way colder up there than it ever will here.
Have fun with that. You know how high heating costs will be this winter.
No, we didn't let anyone ruin our happiness. We're usually not even aware of what all the other people around us are doing, because we're just doing our own thing. He was just a lot louder than the norm and we were trapped there with him, so that's why we even noticed him.
Hey MeMom
What age group do you work with? Do you work with special needs kids or a regular classroom?
I'm sure you're great... I was just curious.
I have third grade. I have one who goes out to Resource for Language and Math, but he does Social Studies and Science with me. I have, in the past, had autistic children and a few physically handicapped kids in my class. We do have two classes of autistic children in our school. There are eleven in each class, and only one is a girl. We see them in the halls and at lunch, and boy, oh boy, do I have tremendous respect for the people who work with them. I don't think I would be able to take the constant noises, running away, self-mutilating, and violence that goes along with that group. I hear the stories, and I am thankful for those fine people.
oh, poor baby!!! i hope she's not too banged up. that's one thing i'm not looking forward to as a parent - seeing my kid get hurt! but it's part of being an active little kid!
It is so not fun to see your baby hurt. It starts when they are tiny, too. When they give them shots and those bottom lips go down right before they scream, it breaks your heart. When they have an earache or bad tummy or whatever hurts them, you just want to fix it in an instant, but you can't. I have been fortunate, though, because I have never had a child with a serious problem, like cancer, and had to sit by helplessly like I have seen on the St. Jude specials. When I give to St. Jude, I hope my meager little pennies are lifting the burden or furthering the research in some way to help those kids. Like anyone else, I hope I never, never, never have to use their services for one of my little ones.
Even when your kids are big and they hurt, it's not fun. Watching Trent in a hospital bed with tubes hanging all out of him as he was so weak he could barely squeeze the morphine pump - that was definitely not a good feeling. Trent had numerous stitiches and broken bones through his years, and Drew had adenoids out, tubes in, and some minor sinus surgery, but other than that, I've been a very lucky mom.
Jill was kind to me. I never made a trip for stitches or broken bones with her. Well, there was one trip to the emergency room when she had her arm popped out of socket.
By me.
It was a total accident.
Great update MeMom! I always read those stories about parents with a sense of humor but with a little fear that it might be me or DH I'm reading about
I'm positive we were never as bad as that Dad but I know I lost the Disney magic once or twice
Your sense of humor and comments about swearing had me
(If only it were that easy to make it go away!!)
How long will the brat...I mean Jill be gone on this trip? I'm sure you have said before but when is the new arrival expected?
I was just thinking today about how tomorrow is the 4 year anniversary of my little guys big surgery (heart defect repair when he was 2 weeks old). I was thinking about how stressed out I was sitting in his hospital room looking at his tiny sedated body hooked up to dozens of monitors and IV's and praying for him to hang on to life. You would never know today watching him run around doing all the rough and tumble boy things that he is the same kid.
Sorry OT I know, you just got me thinking again.
speaking of little baby boys...I'm anxious to hear how Caleb is doing
She called when they were on the road and when they got to the airport. The next call will either be from MCO, on the Magical Express bus, or from Pop. They'll be there until next Saturday.
I'm glad all is well with your son. Heart surgery at two weeks had to be scary! Brooklynn was back in the hospital at about five weeks, I believe it was, and it wasn't even for anything that serious, and that was bad enough.
I don't think we ever forget things like that, and it's okay to revisit the pain occasionally.
It makes us appreciate how far we've come. Trent's school trainer left the room in tears at one point when the doctors were spewing forth their findings, and that when I knew it had to be serious. He was processing what they were saying, so he understood better than we did. I found out later he did not think he was going to make it. Now he's a big old healthy Bam-Bam type guy who can pick up a school bus with one hand and eat a half dozen sandwiches between meals, so he's more than fine!
I love this picture. She is so cute!!!
She is at such a sweet age, too. She was telling me all the things she's going to ride when I talked to her this morning. She's riding Dumbo and PanPan and Pirates, she said. I hope she did well on the plane.
so glad he's doing good these days. that must've been so difficult to go through!
i broke my right arm when i was 4 and the emergency room staff set it backwards, so it started to grow together incorrectly. they had to rush me to vanderbilt children's hospital and re-break it, do surgery and pin it together.
very scary for my parents to see their 4yo go through! my mom tells me all the time how awful that was. not near as bad as it was for you, i'm sure. luckily they knew what they were doing with your DS and with me, as well. i'm righthanded and have never had a problem with it.
bless those hardworking doctors and nurses!!!
you can see the scar still on my arm in this picture...
sorry to hijack, memom and jill!
I'm glad that there are people that are much, much smarter than me that can repair people!
If your scar was on your face, you could be a real pirate, couldn't ya?
OH MY GOODNESS!! Yes, doctors are wonderful but I have to say from the 3 weeks we spent in the hospital before he turned 6 weeks old (not continuous, in an out with different issues, all related to the heart defect), nurses are awesome!! It was the nurses who sat in his room day and night when he was so critical. It was his nurse Jannine who came to work early because she had gotten a consultation call in the middle of the night then couldn't sleep for worry over my little boy. It was the nurses who talked to me and explained what all was happening and brought me newspapers and magazines to keep my mind busy on something else. It was his nurse Dawnine who gave me a beautiful cross to hold when she saw me gazing at the one on the wall. It was his nurse Molly who told me it was OK to go home for the afternoon to enjoy some time with my hubby and older son while she held him.
Yep, any of you nurses out there...Thanks for all you do!!
I apologize for the hijack too MeMom and Jill
. Back to Fantasmic, glow jewlery and let's not forget "the wave"
Reiterating the thanks for any health care people who may be reading
No problem on the hijack. You're at home here.
UGG, the dreaded wave!!
Just hush and stand up, mister!
If this guy
was sitting instead of kneeling, could we say he was doing the wave?
Turn your computer sideways and see if it's true.
Have a great trip to the Happiest Place on Earth 
, and then they headed toward their room. They're over in the 
and a little windy. 
, and they had sent it back, saying there was no reservation. 
who expects to be in Magic Kingdom shortly, so we need to find...me." 
smiling and happy again.
to MeMom for staying at home.. I am always sad when others are at the world!
im glad it was sorted out 
