Bringing the Princess to Her Castle for the 1st Time!

[shelbys mommy]

love the hair! i wish i was brave enough to chop mine off.

Well, I was having a VERY bad day & I got tired of pulling it up all the time in a ponytail. I had said that I loved Victoria Beckham's hair & I pulled up pics of it online, printed them, & once Ben got home I told him I was going get my hair cut. Totally out of the blue! He looked at me and said "uh ok, what brought this on?" Once it was cut, oh I was so happy! I think I just needed that little bit of "Me" time!

 

[shelbys mommy]

Today my MIL came & took the boys for the afternoon (they got out of school at 12:15 today thanks to teacher planning). to spend time with them & reward them for such great grades on their report card. Koby comes home & tells me that his Grandma & Aunt Lissa took them to Chuck E Cheese. He said a 4 yr old little girl lost all her tokens behind one of the games she was playing. Her tickets fell on the floor. He helped her pick up the tickets & asked her how many tokens she had left. She tells Koby 15. What does Koby do? Gives the little girl 15 of his own tokens. I love that son of mine. He makes me so proud! It's those moments when you think to yourself, "I did something right with that kid."

 

[BabyEeyore]

That is so sweet! If only more people were like your son.

 

[shelbys mommy]

That is so sweet! If only more people were like your son.

Even when he irritates the poop out of me, he does something like this & he's just amazing!

 

[shelbys mommy]

Well after Koby's day of total unselfishness & just being a sweetheart to a random kid, I figured he earned Disney money. So I made & printed these out to put in the Disney jar, that way come time, I will know exactly how much I owe him. If you want to use this, feel free!

 

[shelbys mommy]

So I happened to capture this precious moment when she saw Leo from the Little Einsteins on tv. Now I can't wait until she sees him! I wanted to cry! It looks like she's saying "Oh I love you Leo!"

 

[elizablake]

I LOVE your chart. What a great idea to keep the kids excited (and well behaved for a few extra weeks). It reminds me of how kids are always on their best behavior in December while Santa is watching.

Leo is at Hollywood and Vine. It's at HS. That might be a good character meal for Shelby.

 

[shelbys mommy]

I LOVE your chart. What a great idea to keep the kids excited (and well behaved for a few extra weeks). It reminds me of how kids are always on their best behavior in December while Santa is watching.

Leo is at Hollywood and Vine. It's at HS. That might be a good character meal for Shelby.

Thanks! I'm pretty pleased with it. We'll say, "Oh, now you get a mark (as a warning) and they straighten up real fast!

We are doing Play & Dine for the Character Breakfast. We are going on Koby's 10th birthday because he loves Rock n Roller Coaster & Tower of Terror. We can only afford 1 Character Breakfast & I said I would love to do Play & Dine. Koby said "Mommy, it's Shelby's 1st trip to Disney, for my birthday I want her to see her Leo".

 

[elizablake]

Koby said "Mommy, it's Shelby's 1st trip to Disney, for my birthday I want her to see her Leo".

What a sweet kid. He deserves another one of your Disney dollars for that.

 

[shelbys mommy]

What a sweet kid. He deserves another one of your Disney dollars for that.

He's very sweet. He has a special surprise from "Mickey" for his birthday that "Mickey" will leave in the hotel room.

 

[xanphylus]

He's very sweet. He has a special surprise from "Mickey" for his birthday that "Mickey" will leave in the hotel room.

What are you gonna do?!?! You know I'm a sucker for surprises at Disney!! And anywhere else for that matter!

 

[xanphylus]

Well after Koby's day of total unselfishness & just being a sweetheart to a random kid, I figured he earned Disney money. So I made & printed these out to put in the Disney jar, that way come time, I will know exactly how much I owe him. If you want to use this, feel free!

That is a great idea!!! I may steal that for later. Davy is too young as of yet, but Aleks isn't! And she knows she will eventually be going back too. Maybe even in Nov if we can finagle the finances a wee bit. (Paying for her flight to her mom's house at Christmas is a killer on the spending budget. ouch! but I think I have enough saved right now..... but there is a lot of time in between!)

 

[shelbys mommy]

What are you gonna do?!?! You know I'm a sucker for surprises at Disney!! And anywhere else for that matter!

I'm thinking of the Happy Birthday Disney hat with a card from Mickey along with "extra" spending money he knows nothing about. When I booked Play & Dine they already said that they were putting down a "special" surprise for him when I told him why he wanted that on his birthday!

 

[shelbys mommy]

That is a great idea!!! I may steal that for later. Davy is too young as of yet, but Aleks isn't! And she knows she will eventually be going back too. Maybe even in Nov if we can finagle the finances a wee bit. (Paying for her flight to her mom's house at Christmas is a killer on the spending budget. ouch! but I think I have enough saved right now..... but there is a lot of time in between!)

Never too early to start IOU's lol!

 

[Charlefours]

WS restaurants: the Yorkshire Fish and Chips is great in GB if you like fish and chips. Great size for the money too. Sunshine Season up in the Land Pavillion gets great reviews too. Are you looking for other places besides EP? It has been so long since we have been there too so I am just going off my old memories and what others have said.

Cute hair cut! I cut mine awhile back but I am still considering going shorter yet. We are taking it in steps so I can find the right length.

Aw, what a sweet thing for Kolby to do!! So are those bonus dollars on top of their chart money?

Such a cute picture of Shelby!

 

[shelbys mommy]

WS restaurants: the Yorkshire Fish and Chips is great in GB if you like fish and chips. Great size for the money too. Sunshine Season up in the Land Pavillion gets great reviews too. Are you looking for other places besides EP? It has been so long since we have been there too so I am just going off my old memories and what others have said.

Cute hair cut! I cut mine awhile back but I am still considering going shorter yet. We are taking it in steps so I can find the right length.

Aw, what a sweet thing for Kolby to do!! So are those bonus dollars on top of their chart money?

Such a cute picture of Shelby!

Yeah I'm looking for restaurants for all the parks.

Thanks! I love it!

Yes those are bonus dollars on top of the chart, for extra special rewards.

 

[shelbys mommy]

So I get a phone call today around 3 pm from the school. The counselor says "I have Koby in my office. He said he was going to kill himself this weekend. I need to know if I can put him on the bus." WOW. Uh yeah, put him on the bus!!!! She calls me back & apologizes for being so blunt, but she wanted to make sure I wanted him on the bus, so he wouldn't miss it. We had a 45 minute talk on the phone. Koby made the comment to some of his friends that they would not see him on Monday. They immediately ran & told his teacher. She immediately called the counselor. The counselor had to do an evaluation on him to see how serious he was. She asked him why he wanted to kill himself & he said that he is having a bad week & he got hurt alot this week (running & kicked the wall, stuff like that). She asked him about his family & he said "Oh my brother & my sister would be so sad" and started crying. She asked him on a scale of 1 to 10 how serious he was. He said 5. She asked him what were the chances of him doing it & he said 50%. She said that alarmed her. She read me everything from the paperwork of what was said & his replies. She asked him how he was going to do it & he said he didn't think about that. She said he is low risk, but the 50% & the 5 still alarmed her. She asked him how long he had been thinking about this & he said since Sunday, then he changed his mind & said since yesterday. So apparently it's pretty recent. His teacher called me a few minutes ago to check on him. She said there is no way she could sleep this weekend until she called me to check on him. After about 10 minutes of her bragging on him to me about what a great student he is, how smart he is, how sweet he is, how polite he is & how much she just adores him, she asked me what she could do to help him in class. She wanted to know if there was a bully or something going on. Koby said no. He said that over & over to the counselor too. When I asked him he said no bully, just a bad week.

Needless to say, Koby will be home with me all weekend & is not leaving my sight. I am so scared. Just please keep him & us in your prayers this weekend. We are getting him a journal to write in when he has those bad days.

 

[BabyEeyore]

I can't even imagine how you must be feeling right now. But please know that Koby, you, and your whole family are in my prayers.

 

[shelbys mommy]

I can't even imagine how you must be feeling right now. But please know that Koby, you, and your whole family are in my prayers.

Thank you so much. Today he played outside all day & said today was a great day. Nice to see my baby smile again!

 

[shelbys mommy]

So thanks to Becky, I ordered all of Shelby's Disney bows & they came in today! I am so super happy with them! I can't wait to see her in Disney with these in her hair!!!

Minnie Mouse

Mulan

Alice in Wonderland

Belle

Cinderella

Sleeping Beauty

Ariel

Tinkerbell

Pocahontas

Jasmine

Tiana

Snow White