The DDA Trouble Free Zone Part 8

[itdjbw]

I actually have girls who aren't into dolls...instead stuffed animals EVERYWHERE!!

My DD too, not into the princesses, anything pink or girlie but both my kids love cuddly toys.
Actually she has never liked dolls not even barbie.

 

[Steffy]

I am sure you guys can appreciate this....
I was almost 2 years behind in getting my photos into an album. I have been putting it off & finally today I sat down & put in 2 years of pictures with captions into my album. It was pouring today so it was a good excuse to get this done. I can't believe I let it go that long. The photos were all over the house so organizing them was a pain but now I am up to date! While I was looking at the pictures I realized how much my kids have changed in just one year....

I like the new million dreams..I guess I have to work on convincing my DH to go to Disney again in 2007!

WTG Anne Marie! You done good!

 

[Steffy]

Okay my dentist takes one look at my tooth does some other test and says yes it must come out. but it iss a sideways impaction so it will not come out in one piece and as your a red head I am not sure I can get you numb enough. so he sends me to an oral surgeon. who then sechudles an appointment for 8:45 friday morn. the cough and shortness of breath has not gotten better. the stuff i am coughing up has color now. so I called in to work for tomorrow and will see my primary Dr some time tomorrow.
I am diaspointed as I was supposed to go to Port Aransas this weekend for my cousins baby shower.

Get better Jennifer!

 

[Pooh67_68]

Tammi and Heidi, guess John is a good name, huh?

Glad to hear that Rees is doing so well.

 

[Pooh67_68]

John is dh's and ds's middle name.

Beth

 

[Steffy]

Today was an exhausting day. Poor Alyssa has a diaper rash, so she was rather cranky and I spent most of the day cleaning, which makes me cranky too. At 1:30 p.m. Remax called to ask if a realtor could show the house in an hour. As much as I hated saying it, I had to say no...first, Alyssa would be napping and second, I was still trying to get the house looking decent. When I told Kevin later that I said no, he wasn't too pleased, but for crying out loud, an hour's notice?!!!

So, around 5:30 p.m. I'm making dinner (the showing wasn't until 8:15 p.m. so there was plenty of time to do this) and the phone rings. Remax again...someone wants to see the house now. In fact, they are parked next door waiting for the okay! So, Kevin says fine, but please understand the animals are here, I'm making dinner, etc. The realtor was very nice and he spoke highly of the house as he walked through. They must have been out looking at other houses and decided to stop by. The man he was showing around spoke no English, and we heard the realtor speaking Spanish to him throughout their tour.

Okay, so we eat dinner, and I vacuum one more time. We lock Lucy (evil cat)up in her cage, Kevin takes Libby (dog) to the new house, and I take Alyssa to Home Depot. On my way home, I drive by at 8:35 p.m. and there's no one in the driveway. I call Kevin and tell him I'm just going to get Alyssa ready for bed. He comes home about 10 minutes later. At 8:55 p.m. the doorbell rings!!! They were very apologetic for being so late. This time it was a young woman who works at Children's Hospital. She took lots of pictures. This realtor was very nice and complimentary too. They left around 9:15 p.m. and now here I am, telling you my saga!

Though I hope the house sells ASAP, it will be nice to be all moved in to our new house and not have to worry about these showings! Whew, what a day!

Amy

Selling a home, while it is occupied, is sooo stressful. Hang in there. That buyer is on the way

 

[Pooh67_68]

Well it seems like all the wonderful DDA kiddies are having some awesome moments, so
this includes the big kiddies too.

Paula, very nice of you to do that for the Figs.

 

[Steffy]

Ok, Becky needs some pixiedust tomorrow. She is taking her drivers test to get her real license. She just wasn't ready before but the last couple of months has really wanted to drive and has done so every chance she could. The only thing I'm really worried about is the parallel parking. We don't have much of that here so it is hard to practice. We'll be spending a few hours practicing in the morning. I'll set some stakes up in the driveway. She spent 1/2 hour just driving down and backing up our driveway getting used to the feel of backing up. It was amazing how much she improved in just that 1/2 hour. There is a selfish side of me that hopes she won't pass but then the real mom side wants her to accomplish this!!!!!

for Becky!

I hate parallel parking to this day. Just hate it....

 

[Steffy]

Ok, here are the pictures!~

Great pictures Denise!!! The kids look so happy. And you can tell how much Rees loves his PM!!

 

[bear74]

Are you sure parallel parking is on the exam...it was not for Jonathan..and it was not for me when I took it MANY years ago...

it was for me.

 

[bear74]

Ok, here are the pictures!~

Rees getting PM for Monday morning. What a great smile!



Giving PM a big hug.



Playing with PM in the hospital room.



Right before going into surgery. PM and Pooh went too!



After surgery. PM and a new Mickey baloon!



And today, making the Sand Art creations that Deb sent the kids. They turned out so cute, and we all had a great time making them. Thanks, Deb!!!!

Denise what great pictures.

 

[Steffy]

We went to Home Depot last Saturday morning for their Kids Crafts program. Apparently they do it the first Saturday of each month. Kids can build projects. They supply the projects, tools and instructions. The best part was that it was completely free. These are the projects that my kids did.



Deb

The pictures are great Deb!

I'm so sorry you had to cancel your camping trip. This is one rainy year.....

 

[Steffy]

Since I am now caught up and watching Ray I will share how my evening went.

It rained just about all day today, so we held the Bridging ceremony inside. It went extremely well and I have a feeling it will end up being inside in the future as it kept everyone at the ceremony and not running off to the playground. Lots of people commented that they liked it inside. Personally I still wished it would have been outside but you gotta make do with what you got. I heard it was the best Bridging ceremony in years which made me feel good.

Each troop presented either a song(s) or a poem(s). My girls choic was Are you Sleeping and they wanted everyone including the parents to do the Hokie Pokie. Well I changed the words of Are you Sleeping? to this
Are You Sleeping? (Are You Sleeping?)
Families and Scouts (Families and Scouts)
We sure hope you are not (We sure hope you are not)
So please stand up (Please Stand Up)

Thank you for coming (Thank you for coming)
To bridging (To Bridging)
Won't you please all join us (Won't you please all join us)
And do the Hokie Pokie (And doe the Hokie Pokie)
We then did the Hokie Pokie, it was great fun to get everyone involved, I think the girls had great ideas.

One of my Brownies kept asking me if it was the last time she would see me as I am not having the Brownie Girl Scout troop in the fall. She even made me a homemade thank you card. I know she will be the one to miss me the most, as she never wants to leave. She might be moving over the summer so I might not get to see her, even though I will be around with other Girl Scout stuff.

Here is the tree we put together during the ceremony from the parts I made, each level was represented by a different tree part. It was quite interesting getting the leaves on as the back post was 8 feet tall.

All I got left for this Girl Scout year is the community Flag Burning Ceremony on Flag Day. Worn out Flags are collected from the community. We destroy the flags properly by cutting the stripes apart and the blue part off of the flags and the stars are cut out and then they are burned as this is the only proper way to destroy the United States Flag. It is really neat to watch and participate in.

The only other thing would be the pool party whenever I end up planning it.

Great ceremony Becky! Love the tree. Love the poems. Really great job!

 

[Steffy]

So DH gets me an anniversary card and when I start reading the first part, I gotta admit, he is getting me a funny card, but also I know he is good for a tear jerker.

so the card starts out with :
After all this time,
I still want to...

on the inside

Have fun with you
fall asleep with you,
wake up with you,
dig deep with you,
be friends with you,
act bold with you,
make love to you,
grow old with you.



tear jerker
I love my man
probably won't get him to WDW
but I love him

Awwwww. That's so sweet.

Hal

 

[Tammi67]

Question for everyone! I have clients down at Disney right now. They left on Sunday and yesterday morning they spent the day at Animal Kingdom. Apparently 3 of them (out of 5) have something along the lines of food poisioning; it would seem odd that all three of them would come down the the SAME symptoms at the same time to have a stomach virus.
She's talked to a CM at one of the Baby Care Centers and they informed the Animal Kingdom resturant and filed a claim; I'm assuming Disney takes the info to see if anyone else got sick as well. She's wondering what kind of comps Disney can do for her, given that the family has missed almost 2 days in the park.
I mentioned to her that once everyone starts feeling better, maybe head down to Guest Services and see if they might be able to comp her 2 days in the parks, help her get more dining reservations if she want's them, and go from there. The person she talked to when she filed a claim said she should get something in the mail from Disney in the future...but she's concerned that this "once in a lifetime" trip isn't going to happen for a while and "what can Disney do for me once I'm home"...
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm honestly at a loss for this and how to help her. They leave on Sunday morning.

If I understand you correctly, they aren't planning on going back to disney for quite some time, so if it were me, I think I would settle for a refund for the park days that I missed, and maybe some monetary compensation (free meals/room/etc) for 'pain and suffering.'

 

[Steffy]

Good morning DDA! We had some excitement here last night. Emma lost another tooth. As you can tell she was very excited knowing that the Tooth Fairy would be visiting. And it won't be long for the 4th tooth, I just hope the TF is better prepared. This tooth was worth $5.

What a cutie Robyn! Emma looks adorable!!

 

[yellowfish78]

If I understand you correctly, they aren't planning on going back to disney for quite some time, so if it were me, I think I would settle for a refund for the park days that I missed, and maybe some monetary compensation (free meals/room/etc) for 'pain and suffering.'

That's almost exactly what I told her, and it makes me feel better that really there isn't much more that can be done, given she's already filed a claim with them already (which is what I would have done anyways). Both of our concern was how to ask for a monetary compensation....and I like the "pain and suffering" aspect of what you said.

 

[bear74]

Good morning DDA! We had some excitement here last night. Emma lost another tooth. As you can tell she was very excited knowing that the Tooth Fairy would be visiting. And it won't be long for the 4th tooth, I just hope the TF is better prepared. This tooth was worth $5.

what a cutie. congrats emma on losing a tooth.

 

[legalslave]

Hi everyone! I tried taking notes to acknowledge everyone individually, but you guys have been too chatty today. Here is a collective and a bunch of and some - take your pick to suit your circumstances, or all three. I think I'll throw in these guys just because I think they're cool - I have no idea what they are supposed to be.

 

[bear74]

Sounds like fun! I love disappearing to my neighbor's house. My Dh doesn't as it usually means I am gone for 2 or more hours!

oh he and Olivia went with. he sat outside with her Dh.Olivia played with the big kids.