Monday, May 27, 2013

Family First

 The day after we got back from Disneyland Grace and Evan decided to watch Mary Poppins.  The dancing scene got Grace dancing on the couch, which she then fell off of, and we ended up in the ER.  Grace wouldn't move her left arm at all and was obviously in a ton of pain, so it was lucky that she slept for most of our wait time.
 Unfortunately she was in so much pain that she refused to get up to go to the bathroom, instead going all over Brandon in triage.  Then, with Brandon using a towel over his shorts, she was in so much pain in x-ray while the positioned her arm, she puked everywhere.  Thanks to the hospital for the loaner scrubs.
Poor Grace was happy and fine, then sobbing and miserable within minutes.
 We scored and instead of a 7 day wait to be scene by the orthopedist they saw us in two days.  Here she is waiting for her cast.
 Very curious about the casting process.

 We were very impressed by how patient she was through the casting.  Not what I expected from our 3 year old.
 So excited with her new pink cast.  
 14 days later, waiting to get re-xrayed.
Trying to move her stiff arm again.  We will probably never know if she really fractured her elbow.  They saw a lot of fluid around it, it was swollen, and she couldn't move it, which is normal in a fracture, but they could never see the fracture on x-ray. Luckily for us 2 weeks in the cast seems to have done the trick and we are now back to our cast free, very energetic Grace.  Hopefully she is done dancing on the couch though.

Disney - Misc



 Day one snack, Mickey pretzels.  They were a big hit.
 A little picture posing while we took a bathroom break.  I think these were my favorite bathrooms. Every stall was a different card.  

Cars in Toon Town

 Walking around Downtown Disney we of course had to see the Lego store.  Beauty and the Beast made entirely of Legos was quite impressive.
 As were Buz and Woody
 And the giant Lego dragon and knight.  I'm sure the boys wish we had that many Legos at home.
 We ended up watching the big parade in each park twice because the kids loved them so much.

 I loved the parades too, so I didn't mind watching them twice.  The music was so fun, and the kids loved seeing so many characters. 
 The Disney Jr Live show.  Brandon and I commented many times on the things we would've missed/skipped if we hadn't had 5 days there.  This would have been one, but it was so worth it to see Grace (and the boys) reactions to all of her favorite tv characters.  She was so happy the entire show, and it was a great break from walking around.
 The kids were confused by this street.  They wanted to walk down and see what was on it, and it took a while to convince them it was just a painting.  I love how you never realize you are at the edge of the park.
 The California Adventure parade.  We loved Heimlich because each section walked around separately and did funny stuff, totally a highlight of the parade for the kids.
 Dinner night 2 - Flo's Cafe in Cars Land.  We had two sleeping kids when we ordered dinner but they woke up very happy.  Their dinners came in the cute little cars lunchboxes (for a fee) and they love them.  The food was good too which was a bonus.  

 While at dinner we had a visit from DJ in the street just behind us and they started a little dance party.  All 3 kids ended up out dancing in the street.
 Cars Land as it lit up.  We waited around after dinner to see it light up and it was just as great as people described it.  They start playing music over the speakers and on comes the neon.  So cool!

We had heard the tractor tipping ride may be a little too much for our motion sickness prone kiddos so we skipped that ride (one of only a few) but we did manage a picture with a tractor.
 Playing in Toon Town while Evan and Brandon did Roger Rabbits Cartoon Spin.
 I loved watching Kyle try to figure this out.  He had a hard time getting it to come up, and then it did something different every time you pushed it down.  He played with it for a good 5 minutes.

 Another ride we skipped on account of possible motion sickness - lucky they had a tea cup for pictures for those of us too chicken to do the ride.
 Mom and Dad's day at Disneyland.
Gotta have a castle pic.
Just looking through these pictures makes me miss Disneyland.  I know we only went once when I was growing up, but we are already planning our trip back.  Give us a few years so we are ready to brave all of the rides and we are there.  It was such a fun trip!

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Disneyland Characters

We weren't sure if the kids would want to meet characters or not, turns out they loved it.
Waiting to meet Minnie - our first character. 
 So excited to be in Minnie's house.

 She was so happy!

 Minnie coaxed Evan into a kiss on the hand
 Then kissed him
 and he blushed....a lot



 Goofy's Kitchen for dinner - thanks to all who recommended it
 Pluto

 Dale
 Minnie in another outfit
 Chip
 Mad Hatter - he was a hit with Grace.  He sang "Very Merry Unbirthday"
 Fairy Godmother
 Donald



 Dug
 I love that we said squirrel and Dug and the kids all turned
 Mater
 Goofy
 Daisy - love Grace's pose
 She kissed both boys and they giggled.  So funny.
 We had all of those characters and Grace really wanted to meet a princess.  We were heading back to the hotel for a break and found three.  Ariel

 Aurora
 Snow White
 Tianna on the way back in
Jessie
They also met Handy Manny, but Brandon didn't find the camera in time.  What was extra great is that besides Mickey and Minnie, we didn't really wait in line to meet anybody.  We picked a great week to go because the lines for everything were pretty short.