First of all, I am insanely jealous that your kids are such awesome eaters. Maddie is not too picky, but broccoli and most other vegetables are out to the question.
That photobomb picture is priceless! I think it's the cutest character picture ever.
Leave the tip, take the canoli? I am a very happy reader today.
Thanks for the smiles while I'm eating lunch with a grumpy 5 year old.
The foods Landon will eat surprises me all the time. The few times he comes across a food he doesn't like, he'll keep trying it again and again until he can eat it. My kids have always been okay with vegetables, which is great.
Thanks! Landon and I had a lot of fun with that one.
I thought that would be fun to stick in there.
Why are they always grumpy at meal times?
Wow, sounds like an eventful Crystal Palace lunch. It's good to hear the food was good, and that you got a few blissful moments to yourself.
But unfortunate to see that Landon did not have a good time. Wonder what caused him to be so upset.
I hope the rest of your day went smoothly after that.
It was a very eventful lunch. The food was great and at first the characters were wonderful, but the whole thing with Landon was too bad. I've thought a lot about what upset him, but nothing really makes sense. The best I can come up with is that he saw Piglet walk away and then I walked away in the same direction, so maybe he thought I was leaving him for Piglet. Of course, if that were it, he would have recovered when I came back, so who knows!
Your lunch at Crystal Palace looks like it was fun! That's so weird that Landon likes more "exotic" things to eat and Carter likes typical kid food, they seem very opposite sometimes!
I'm glad they had such a great time with the characters, even if poor Landon lost interest after a while!
The fun parts of lunch were really, really fun. Carter and Landon very often like the exact opposite things to eat. When they have spaghetti and meatballs, Carter eats only spaghetti and Landon eats only meatballs. It kind of works out that way.
They did love meeting the characters, at least at first. I guess Carter liked every character he got to see.
SOmetimes the crowdedness (is that a word) can cause kids to just get really upset. It's so stimulating!
Your boys really are good eaters, even if Landon eats more veggies.
Looks like a great meal at one of my favorite places of all time! And Piglet is really the best of all of the characters, IMO.
That could be. Landon seemed a little confused by the process of character dining. It's different having the characters walk away from him than the other way around. Combined with the noise of the room and the lack of sleep, it might have just been too much.
They are pretty good eaters. They both have great appetites!
We liked Crystal Palace so much more than we had expected to. We'd been once before, many years ago and I remembered the food being average and the characters being nice, but nothing too great. This time we really loved it! Well, everyone but Landon loved it, that is.
Sooo saw that coming.
Poor Landon.. No clue what set him off? He looked like he was having a great time before. I wish it had gone a little better for him, but Carter seemed happy to the end.
Love the photobomb!
Really? It sort of snuck up on me. I hadn't planned on it, but at the last minute I tossed it in.
It's hard to make any sense of it. Jeremy says that Landon was upset because I left, but he wasn't any calmer once I came back. Maybe he thought if he kept crying he'd get Piglet and Pooh to come back. I don't know.
Carter really liked his lunch. He's disappointed now whenever we go to Magic Kingdom and don't eat at Crystal Palace.
Thanks!
I'm sorry you had a difficult meal at CP. I agree the very worst is when kids melt down in public and there is nothing you can do to salvage the situation. I'm glad he calmed down with your mom, and that you were able to finish eating.
Also, count me in with those that are impressed with your boys eating! Do you have any tricks or tips for getting kids to eat their veggies? I can get Everett to eat exactly zero vegetables and only three types of fruit. I honestly still give him baby food vegetable/fruit mixes in the squeezey pouches. He'll still eat those, and I guess that's better than nothing.
I hate public meltdowns, especially at Disney World. It started out so well, too. Oh, well. I'm glad he calmed down with my mom, too. Whatever it was that was bothering him must not have been too serious.
Landon and Carter love the squeezey pouches of applesauce. They'd eat a box a day if I let them. One thing that Jeremy and I agreed on before we had the boys was that we did not want to raise picky eaters. We made a pact to never let the boys hear us say we didn't like certain foods and to try our best to eat anything ourselves, too. I actually hated tomatoes my entire life, but once Carter was born, I started eating them, because I couldn't ask him to do what I wasn't willing to do myself. They're really not too bad once you get used to them. I also keep putting whatever food we're having on their plates, whether they like it or not. I've always believed that if you keep offering a variety of healthy foods, eventually, they'll eat what they need. Of course, none of that may have made any difference at all. Jeremy and I weren't picky eaters as kids, so it may be completely genetic.
Wow! 
