Disney World

It's official. We have booked our kids first trip to Disney World. I am so excited. We are celebrating 5 year anniversary, me turning 30, gonna have a third kid soon so I want to go while i'm not pregnant, and anything else that allowed me to convince Paul that this is a good idea. I know they will have a good time, but really my expectations are just that we can manage this and Paul will have a good time so he'll want to go back. I'm not even showing him all the pictures of our hotel so that he can be surprised too:) I showed Grace the hotel pictures on the computer and said, "Do you want to go there?" to which she replied, "No, I don't want to go there, I want to... wait, where do I want to go?" I then explained that the hotel is where we sleep and then we would get to meet Mickey Mouse. "Oh, ok... then I would like to go there," was her response.

Parenting lesson backfire # 1: When you are taking a trip and it is 6 weeks away don't tell the 2 year old. I was dancing around the house acting like this trip is the best thing that ever happened to me, so imagine my surprise when I picked Grace up from the Augles on Tuesday and she wanted to go to Disney World. (Enter sarcasm) Even after I explained that I had to get us ready for the trip and that we weren't going for a few weeks, she repeatedly said, "I want to go to Disney World, NOW." I took her home and on the way, she said, "I can see Disney World." I said, "No, you can't. It's too far away." I told her we need to take a plane to which she asked where the plane was. When I told her it was at the airport, she said she wanted to go to the Airport. She the had a complete meltdown with head and arm thrashing and refused to take her shoes off. It took at least 5-10 minutes to get her to stop crying. LESSON LEARNED! Keep the excitement to a minimum until right before. I am going to make her a countdown so she can start to get the concept of time, however. I will not be taking Andrew's advice and telling her Mickey Mouse is Dead. HAHAHAHAHAHA.