We headed on over to the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique around 10:15 to see if the rest of the family was congregating there yet. I went in to check in for our appointment. I gave them Teresa's name and they told me our appointment wasn't until 11:20! We are sure that they gave us 10:30 and 10:40 appointment times, so I'm a little irked by this. The woman in front of me had the exact same problem.
I came out to tell Henry that our appointment wasn't for another 55 minutes and who did I see walking toward us??
MY MOMMY!!!!(and my brother)
I was so relieved to see her! David was following close behind her. Phew! We'd reunited. They said Teresa and Co. were riding on Snow White. So, we went over there to wait for them to get off. As soon as we walked in front of the ride, a CM ran over to us, exclaimed over Tessa and Sawyer's costumes, and took us right to the front of the line! Then, Teresa came out of the ride!!! We were together again!! For a moment!
The CM said we could only take up one car, so Teresa and family couldn't join us on the ride. We hopped in the little car. Tessa sat by Uncle David, which was a novel experience for her. She doesn't see him much and gets Uncle David and Uncle Brian mixed up. They look SOOO much alike, after all.
Sawyer sat between Henry and I.
I knew it was a scary ride, so I talked all happy-like through the whole thing, pointed out the cute squirrels, laughed at the scary parts, and yelled at the witch that she didn't scare me. Yes, I was obnoxious! But, it worked! Sawyer didn't cry, he actually seemed to enjoy himself!
We got off the ride and had our family reunion again.
LOOK!! I'VE GONE MULTI-MEDIA!! Here is a fascinating video of us getting off of the Snow White ride, courtesy of Corey.
I just love this picture of the kids with their Grandma!
We weren't sure what to do next, but we headed over to Winnie the Pooh. It was a 20 minute wait, so I thought that would give us just enough time to ride it before our appointment at the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique. But, some of us weren't sure if we should wait 20 minutes to ride... "Should we ride it, shouldn't we ride it, I just don't know..."
On previous vacations, we have spent a great deal of time standing around trying to decide what we should do next. I wasn't going to do that on this vacation. So, I took the kids over to Pooh's Thoughtful Spot to play while everyone decided whether we should ride the ride.
I soon discovered (after Teresa mentioned it) that this was probably not a great idea right before we went to Bibbity Bobbity Boutique. They had fun for a few minutes, though!
Teresa said we could get in line to meet Tigger, Pooh, and Eeyore. The girls all got in line while Sawyer played a while. He was having a GREAT time!
The line for Tigger and Co moved REEEEEAAAAALLY slow. It was starting to get pretty hot, there was no shade, and I don't "do" hot very well. So, I went and sat on a bench with Barbara and Tessa and waited.
It was about 10 minutes before our appointment and they were nowhere near the front of the line. So, they had to get out of line and head on over there. We'd see plenty of Pooh and friends on this vacation, so no worries! Henry stayed with Sawyer and let him play for a little while longer.
Now I should insert what a wonderful aunt my sister is! She payed for ALL of the girls to have their hair done at the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique (hereby referred to as BBB)!! This place ain't cheap, and Teresa ain't rich. So, this was really a loving, wonderful, gesture on her part. She just wanted to see the girls all experience some extra magic. I'm so lucky to have her in my life. *sigh*
Sniffle, sniffle, wipe a tear... moving on...
We brought our big 'ol crew into the BBB and signed in for our appointments. The girls sat down as we waited. As they were sitting on the bench, we noticed a big 'ol wet spot. We're thinking some little princess couldn't wait to get on the throne- wink, wink, nudge, nudge. So, they all sat on the bench, avoiding the wet spot and alerted others to it's presence.
Here's one side of the wet spot:
Here's the other:
We told the women at the front desk about it and they said "Oh, okay." I watched the wet spot throughout our visit and nothing was ever done about it. People came through, sat on it, jumped up quickly, and moved on. But, no one ever cleaned it. I imagine by the time the 5th person sat in the wet spot, it was pretty much soaked up by the helpful cleaning pants of the people before them. I guess that's one way to clean it up, Disney! I gotta say, every upholstered surface in the place looked like it needed some cleaning.
They gave the girls brochures so they could pick out which hairdo they wanted.
Tessa chose the classic princess 'do because it came with a crown. Lydia and Arminda also chose this style, while Casey and Courtney chose the one that came with the fake hair (sorry I'm not up on my BBB lingo, so I don't remember the proper names). Teresa wanted to see each of her girls have their hair done, so Tessa, Lydia, Courtney, and Casey went first. Arminda would get her hair done next.
David decided he needed a hat so his head wouldn't get burnt in the hot Florida sun, so he took off to look for one.
Tessa was so excited to be there and she wanted to talk to her Fairy Godmother in Training (hereby referred to as FGIT)!
Tessa sat down and started chattering away to Daisy (her FGIT). Daisy was not a friendly woman. Daisy acted like she would rather be ANYWHERE but where she was. She smiled, her only smile of day.
Then, she ignored Tessa's exhuberance and just got to work.
She slicked her hair and slicked her hair and slicked her hair some more.
Tessa kept right on talking. She told Daisy that she was wearing
crocs, but that Cinderella didn't wear crocs, she wore glass slippers. This elicited Daisy's only reply to Tessa, which was "Fairy Godmother's can make glass crocs." Thanks Daisy!!
Guess who wanted to look for glass crocs for the rest of the trip? Oops, I guess she smiled twice:
I tried engaging Daisy in conversation as well. I got her to tell me that she was pregnant and that she's going to name the baby Lydia. I thought that was pretty exciting, but she didn't seem to be all that excited. I understand that she may have been feeling icky, so maybe that was the reason for the attitude.
Well, at least Tessa had fun with the hairspray shield:
She also liked the much friendlier woman who did her hair and makeup. Tessa picked blue and purple eyeshadow, exactly what I had hoped she wouldn't pick! Luckily, it wore off really quickly:
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) and we headed on out. 
but they did do a great job on the girls - they all look so cute and purrty 
Where do I begin? First of all, Luke is sleeping so I'll have to get his reaction to his lovely princess tomorrow. I LOVE the photos of Sawyer in Pooh's playground. That baby boy (yes he is still a baby) is soooo cute! The pictures of Tessa at BBB had me crying. She looks so sweet and excited and her FGIT...well...looks neither. Then that picture of Tessa's face looking sad about broke my heart. Then the yawning and hairspray ones made me laugh again, then the ones with Casey's and Arminda's FGITS made me laugh AND feel sad.
Casey's looks like Lady Tremaine. I could go on with my comments on those two, but it might get mean. I don't believe I saw any of those 3 FGITS when we were there in January. I love Tessa's reveal picture. She looks like she is thinking "wow, I really do look beautiful" 
Love the picture of Barbara and David in all their lime green glory 
Did you write to Disney about it?
