If you remember my New Year's resolutions from the past 2 years, you'll laugh with me at this link.
I guess it's a hopeless endeavor, but at least I'm not alone.
At Disney World, we went to the Lego store at Downtown Disney. This was a very deliberate and much anticipated shopping trip, as we used the occassion to make the official transition from Duplo to regular Legos for Coulson (and as it turn out, for Charlie also, because now he's not at all interested in his Duplos, but loves to take the hair and hats off the little Lego men). So we got Coulson's first set of Legos there, and now that we're home, my husband has found the urgent need to expand our arsenal of Legos a couple times already. We are having a great time building cars and trucks and buildings - if only the kids would stop getting in the way...
On a related note, Casey and I have also been having fun playing the Lego Batman video game that we rented. Coulson and Charlie are very excited simply to be allowed to watch us play, so I can tell that today isn't going to score strong in the field of excellent parenting :-)
On the passage of time:
What if instead of countries, there were years and I swam to winter so my birthday would come faster.
It took me a while to figure out what he was thinking, but eventually it did make sense.
It's been a while since I've posted, but I thought I'd post some pictures from our recent trip to Disney World (DW).
We spent a few days at DW on our honeymoon and from our observations of the families at the parks and on the buses coming home, we resolved to follow 2 principles for our future family vacations to DW. 1) Don't leave home without a grandparent and 2) Don't take a vacation until the kids are done with afternoon naps. But due to the generosity of my brother, we were able to take a trip to DW that allowed us to follow principle 1, but we would have to abandon principle 2. So yeah, we totally jumped on that opportunity! (Thanks a bunch brother #2!)
We were apprehensive about taking a 2 year old and 4 year old, but overall they did great. No public meltdowns - that's our definition of success!
I'd like to write more about our favorite rides, talking to trash cans, using the "line eraser," Epcot's Food and Wine festival, meeting up with my roommate from college, running into friends from residency, terrifying the kids on rides we thought would be fine (ok, some of the rides we knew were questionable), squishing pennies and so much more, but I don't have the time. Bottom line - we all had a great time!
