How sad is it that I haven't actually posted on this thread in 3 whole days when I am now 10 days away from Disney? It's not like I haven't been on the DIS. I've been on every day. But I'm always reading/posting on other threads when I'm on.
And I haven't been TOO terribly busy. We only really did baseball practice this weekend, but I also haven't really done anything trip related, so I haven't really had anything to post.
Today I took Will to his Cub Scout Belt Loop Frenzy. They do a bunch of activities (up to 6) that they get belt loops for. We only managed two, because we got there really late. He did Soccer and Flag Football. Then we came home for an hour and then he went to baseball practice. That's my boy. Even when he's doing Cub Scouts he's doing sports. Got hit in the face with the ball during the last play at practice. It's the third time in the last couple of months. He's got a couple of "stitch marks" (where the ball made an imprint) right on the corner of his mouth. Poor kid. He's trying so hard not to be afraid of the ball after the last two times he got hit, and he gets hit again.
Tony's dad had been doing better the last couple of days, but made a turn for the worse today. I don't think Matt has talked to Tony since this morning, but I hope things have gotten better since then. They have been at the hospital almost constantly since Thursday. So of course Matt ended up helping coach Will's team, even though he's not an "official" coach this time. He doesn't mind though. Both boys have their first games on Saturday. Will has pictures at 8am and his game is at 10am. Christian's pictures are at 11:20am and his game is at 12:30pm. So basically we're going to be at the ball park all day. We're used to it.
I took some pictures of Will at Cub Scouts today, but they are not uploaded, so I'll try to get some up tomorrow. I'm planning to start packing tomorrow while Matt is at work and the boys are at school.
I posted on another thread that my obsessive anxiety (I always seem to have something I'm anxious about) right now is that the kids will get sick before next Friday. Last time we went to Disney (2 years ago), Will had pneumonia in the week before we left (he was 5, in Kindergarten). He missed 4 days of school the week before fall break. But we got to leave a few hours earlier than we'd planned because he had his doctor recheck at 9am on that Friday and we left right after that instead of after school. One of Will's teammate's sister had H1N1 last week. She is fine now, but her mom said it is definitely in her school and I'm worried it's in Will's too. That thing is scaring the bejeebers out of me 1. Because my mom works at one of Emory's hospitals and keeps coming home with stories, 2. Because different people react differently and while some people have regular flu symptoms, others have much worse reactions and you don't know what will happen until you get it-I'm so afraid my boys will be one of the bad reactions. There is also apparently a new respiratory strain of it and Christian almost always had repiratory problems (has to go on an inhaler) when he gets sick. He doesn't have asthma all the time (like Cole does), but it's still scaring me.
You guys know I have an undiagonosed anxiety problem (and I'm half OCD too), so I'm just hoping to get through the next 10 days with no sickness. I've been drilling them on the washing hands WITH SOAP and hand sanitizer.
My nephew (my brother's son) is also sick. He's had a low grade fever and has been teething for two months so everyone figured it was that, but he broke out in a rash all over his body today, so my SIL is taking him to the pediatrician tomorrow. The rash doesn't seem to bother him (though the teeth ARE), but she wants to make sure.
One of Christian's friends (who is one of Will's teammate's brothers) cut his hand so bad on his bike today that he had to have somewhere between 6-10 stitches. He's 4, like Christian (and smaller). My poor little Carterdude....and now I can add worrying about them getting hurt to worrying about them getting sick.
The 18th just needs to get here. TOO MUCH STRESS! All of the above could use any prayers anyone has. My anxious stomach could use some prayers too. It looks like Will's coach might be adding a practice on Wednesday. I'm kind of thankful because we have Cub Scouts tomorrow and I'm working on Thursday plus I have the conference with Will's teacher (remember that), so Wednesday is the only "slow" day. It would be something else to make the week go faster.
We still don't know if MIL is coming this weekend or not. She keeps saying she is coming on Friday, but my niece has a gymnastics meet on Saturday and my SIL (Matt's sister) wants my MIL to stay home and watch my two nephews while she is away with my niece at the meet, instead of coming to see us. My kids haven't seen her since the week after Christmas. Matt is a little annoyed with his sister right now, needless to say, but hopefully she is still coming.
Anyway, that was a lot of chatter about nothing, but at least it's a post. Tomorrow I will hopefully be back to announce that I did ONLINE CHECK-IN!!! Woo Hoo!
I'm going now to check if the boys are asleep.
Seems weird that they have school tomorrow.
the food is simple...good sandwiches and salads and ice cream of course...its also a very pretty little restaurant-we had our last Disney meal there last month too...It's a great choice...
for us!
I've been to the Plaza once before but it was a LONG time ago and it was just me and my mom. I think it was pre-kids. I like the idea of being able to just sit quietly and relax before we race to get just a couple more rides in before going home. And I like the ice cream choices. But seriously, what sold me was the grilled cheese with grapes. I don't think there's many grilled cheeses around and Christian just loves grilled cheese. He'd eat it ever day if I let him. I'm really thinking of getting that club too. Mmmm. I hope we get a table where we can see the castle!
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Be safe.
GRRRR MATT!
Tonight Ryan asked me if it was still a surprise and told me about that conversation. I told him we weren't telling the boys. Thank goodness he covered himself. And thank goodness Will is apparently TOTALLY CLUELESS!!! We're hoping to see them one of the days we're there. Another fun surprise for the boys (Vince has two sisters and one of them is about Christian's age. Both girls are in the "sibling" group that Christian usually plays with). 
and you get the packing started
wash hands, hand santizer, and tell them not to share food, use the water fountain, shake hands all that kind of stuff
for you!!!
