We may be back, but last week my mind was still on vacation. Let's see... among other things we... forgot a birthday present at home, stared at the woman at Costco wanting to be paid wondering why she was looking at me and not saying anything, on and on ad nauseum.
So Monday I was determined to get back in the swing of things. I got 19/20 things done on my to do list. Then the kids stopped sleeping.
Back in college I would get by on 4 hours of sleep and sleep most of Saturday. No problem. Now, I really need 6-7 hours. Uninterrupted would be best.
Last night was typical: 9:00 I try to get Carter in bed 1/2 hour after bedtime. No, apparently there are zombies that are in his head that he's afraid of in his room. I let him sleep in my bed telling him it will not be allowed the next night. 9:30, he's sobbing saying the zombies will not get out of his head. I am desperate, pleading with him to go to sleep, I'm exhausted, they've been doing this to me for 3 nights, all making sure to get up at least once. but not at the same time. Finally I say, "I have no idea what to do. Let's pray about it and see if that will help." We prayed to God to get the zombies out of his head. Apparently this did the trick, then I read aloud to him from Luke, which is the book I'm on, but also full of great little stories. Think the human interest magazine portion of the bible.
I finally pass out at 10:30 or 11 next to Carter who is hogging my pillow. 3am Valerie wakes up for a feeding. I can't feed her in my bed because Carter's there as well as Paul, so now I'm feeding her in the rocking chair in her room. Get back to bed, sleep about 1/2 hour when Henri wakes up. Sleep next to him in Carter's bed for about 2 1/2 hours more. It's been like this since Saturday night.
Henri is also making me insane. Not doing what I ask, getting into stuff, etc. I will sell him to the next gypsies that come to the door. He's almost 2, what can I say. So this morning he climbed into the pantry "I want this!" pointing to the Halloween Candy is his current favorite thing to do. He spilled rice everywhere in the process. During naptime, I have installed a drawer lock on the pantry door. Drilled the bar into the wall, used Command adhesive to put the latch on the back of the door. If he gets the latch off, I'll use super glue as it's the back of the door, who cares if I can never get it off. I'm trying it on the food side first and will update how it's going next week.
The only thing getting me through this week is that my incredible parents are taking the children Thurs night until Saturday evening so I can go to the Creating Keepsakes scrapbook convention with Amanda, my yearly date with her. You have to be in the hospital to miss it. I was 3 weeks away from having Henri and we were calling around looking for a wheelchair to put me in since I was on bedrest. Eye on the prize. Of course, I know the darlings will all sleep for my parents. Promise, mom!
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Valerie Christmas Idea, but get them now!
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These are seconds on the Cloth Diapers I LOVE for the babies. Only $12! Normally they run $17-$18 each. Also free shipping.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Happy Kinect :Launch Day to us!
Not only did we get our Kinect today, but awesome swag, that Paul's letting me have. Tervis Tumbler & Ceramic Coffee Mug :)
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Friday, the final day
Our final day was at Blizzard Beach waterpark. It was great! The kids really enjoyed it as did we adults. There's a little kid play area that had about 3 lifeguards, so one of us could stay with the little kids and the other take Carter on the waterslides. There was a tobbogan one that Carter was excited about, but at the top got nervous, so we watched a group go down and decided to try it. It's like the slide at the fair and you go down on a foam sled, head first. I thought it was a little fast, but at the bottom Carter wanted to do it again, right away! Because he is smaller, he didn't go as fast. I started down after him and flew right by him! We also did the family tube ride with him, which was fun.
The late afternoon and evening was spent in Animal Kingdom where we ate at the Tusker house, which featured African food. Yum!
The late afternoon and evening was spent in Animal Kingdom where we ate at the Tusker house, which featured African food. Yum!
We probably could have spent more time at Animal Kingdom. Paul and I went on Everest while the others watched the parade and then went on Dinosaur as well at the end of the night.
Then we headed home for the long flight home.
Thursday at Hollywood Studios fka: MGM; Evening at Halloween Party
Thursday we headed to Hollywood Studios and started at our favorite place to eat, the 50s Diner. You may ask what' so special about it. The waitresses are "Mom" and remind you to keep your elbows off the table and she bragged about my eating the green beans to the gal at the table next to mine, who hid hers under a napkin. It's just a fun place to eat with good food. Our waitress was from Eastern Washington and got the kids these Buzz Lightyear clip on lights!
We waited in line for about an hour and a half to try the new Toy Story 3 Midway games ride...
We waited in line for about an hour and a half to try the new Toy Story 3 Midway games ride...
Then saw the Playhouse Disney show and met Handy Manny
We watched Muppets 3D
and that night went back to Magic Kingdom for Trick or Treating, a parade, fireworks & seeing characters in their costumes...
Paul was Harry Potter, Carter the Bee, Henri the Chicken, Erin the Nun & Valerie the Chili Pepper.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Disneyworld, Wednesday at Magic Kingdom
We were back at Magic Kingdom Wednesday morning for a Character breakfast at Tony's just inside the main gate (Tony's is where Lady and the Tramp had their date of spaghetti). Henri's already figured out there's a person in there and squats down to look into the characters' mouths to try to see the person inside. Stinker.
Then we headed to Adventure & Frontierlands, which we did not get to on Monday, finishing off at the barnstormer in Toon town.
Carter decided he liked the Haunted Mansion, esp where the ghosts hitchhike out with you. He hated Splash Mountain, in fact I think he actually cried on it.
Later we took just Carter back to the park and he did the "big" stuff with us, Thunder mountain railroad, etc. and we say a bit of the Wishes fireworks and the Electric Street Parade
Then we headed to Adventure & Frontierlands, which we did not get to on Monday, finishing off at the barnstormer in Toon town.
Carter decided he liked the Haunted Mansion, esp where the ghosts hitchhike out with you. He hated Splash Mountain, in fact I think he actually cried on it.
Later we took just Carter back to the park and he did the "big" stuff with us, Thunder mountain railroad, etc. and we say a bit of the Wishes fireworks and the Electric Street Parade
Tuesday at Disneyworld-Epcot
So Tuesday we went to Epcot. First thing we found Daisy Duck near the entrance.
We started off in Future World and went to the Sea section for the Finding Nemo ride. The kids enjoyed that, so then we headed next door to the Land section to see Soarin' the glider ride over California. Since Henri and Valerie were too little, I took them to get lunch in the pavilion and Paul took Carter on the ride, then we got a child swap pass so I could do the ride while Paul and Carter ate.
I'll take a second here to note the timing of our trip was in part due to the fact that this particular week, Disney offered a free Disney Dining Plan. The plan means for each night you book (in our case 6) you get, for each paying person (so, for us, 2 adults, one child) a sit down meal, a quick serve meal and a snack. However we felt about the resort, we loved the dining plan, esp for free! Each meal for an adult included an entree, a beverage & dessert. For a child it included an entree, 2 sides and a beverage. An example of what we could get for a meal would be our first night's quick service meal at our resort... Paul got a small pepperoni pizza, a Powerade & an apple pie a la mode (which we split) I got a big turkey leg with cornbread, potatoes and corn, a drink & 2 scoops of chocolate ice cream (which the kids split) the kids meal was a personal cheese pizza (sliced in 4) and a baggie of grapes and one of carrot sticks. The boys split the meal (Henri and Carter eat the same amount) and then shared our chocolate ice cream. We ate and ate and still ended up with a sit down meal for each of us we didn't use. Snacks could be a beverage, a freeze beverage, a popcorn, an ice cream-anything under $4. My tip for the dining plan, though, is to make reservations for all your sit down meals before you go it is quite difficult to get a reservation at a reasonable time when you actually get there. You can make reservations up to 6 months in advance. Special meals like character breakfasts only count as one sit down meal. They are about $50 per person if you pay for them outside the dining plan and you need 8 people to book some of them. Dining at Disney is expensive, and it was so wonderful to just order whatever meal we wanted and not have to worry about it.
So back to Tuesday.... after Soarin' I think Paul took the boys on another ride in the Land section(Living with the Land), we also did Mission:Space using the child swap option. Paul and Carter did the green and Paul basically dared me to do the Orange which I was worried about, but it ended up being fine (Orange is a more intense version of the ride) then we met up with Paul's parents. We were all in Epcot because we didn't get park hopper option (the option to go to more than one park in a day) and we all had dinner reservations at Epcot for Tuesday. I'd tried to follow Kelli's schedule as much as possible as Carter loves to hang out with the girls, but we very rarely saw them. Which is understandable. Their kids are ages 8-13, ours are 3 months to 5 1/2, so we were on very different agendas and timetables. Anyways, after we met up with them we headed for Test Track. After waiting in line and going once with Carter, we found out that Larry was able to get fast passes because he was retired from General Motors who runs the ride! How cool is that! Apparently just show proof you work(ed) for GM and up to 6 people can go on the ride with no wait. He did it with the girls later on and they were totally impressed :).
After that, we split up as they had dinner reservations in Italy an hour before we had ours in Morroco (the other half of Epcot is the world showcase with 13 countries represented). We had no time to do the world showcase part. However, with small children, I doubt they would have cared. I would have loved to participate in the food and wine festival that was going on. They had booths for virtually every country with tastes and wine samplings. I would have used all my snack coupons right there! However, we didn't get to do any of it because of the pace we had to take with little ones in tow. Oh, well. We also did not have for the Innoventions play area that I think the boys would have really enjoyed, it sounded like our Pacific Science Museum.
We also were able to visit with the Characters in a wonderful, air-conditioned area called the Character spot..
After dinner, Carter headed off with Kelli, Paul's parents may have taken Valerie (I'm all fuzzy now!) anyways, we ended up with Henri and took him on Spaceship Earth, which he thought was pretty cool (the ride in the big silver ball). Afterwards it was dark and he played with the stars on the pavement....
We started off in Future World and went to the Sea section for the Finding Nemo ride. The kids enjoyed that, so then we headed next door to the Land section to see Soarin' the glider ride over California. Since Henri and Valerie were too little, I took them to get lunch in the pavilion and Paul took Carter on the ride, then we got a child swap pass so I could do the ride while Paul and Carter ate.
I'll take a second here to note the timing of our trip was in part due to the fact that this particular week, Disney offered a free Disney Dining Plan. The plan means for each night you book (in our case 6) you get, for each paying person (so, for us, 2 adults, one child) a sit down meal, a quick serve meal and a snack. However we felt about the resort, we loved the dining plan, esp for free! Each meal for an adult included an entree, a beverage & dessert. For a child it included an entree, 2 sides and a beverage. An example of what we could get for a meal would be our first night's quick service meal at our resort... Paul got a small pepperoni pizza, a Powerade & an apple pie a la mode (which we split) I got a big turkey leg with cornbread, potatoes and corn, a drink & 2 scoops of chocolate ice cream (which the kids split) the kids meal was a personal cheese pizza (sliced in 4) and a baggie of grapes and one of carrot sticks. The boys split the meal (Henri and Carter eat the same amount) and then shared our chocolate ice cream. We ate and ate and still ended up with a sit down meal for each of us we didn't use. Snacks could be a beverage, a freeze beverage, a popcorn, an ice cream-anything under $4. My tip for the dining plan, though, is to make reservations for all your sit down meals before you go it is quite difficult to get a reservation at a reasonable time when you actually get there. You can make reservations up to 6 months in advance. Special meals like character breakfasts only count as one sit down meal. They are about $50 per person if you pay for them outside the dining plan and you need 8 people to book some of them. Dining at Disney is expensive, and it was so wonderful to just order whatever meal we wanted and not have to worry about it.
So back to Tuesday.... after Soarin' I think Paul took the boys on another ride in the Land section(Living with the Land), we also did Mission:Space using the child swap option. Paul and Carter did the green and Paul basically dared me to do the Orange which I was worried about, but it ended up being fine (Orange is a more intense version of the ride) then we met up with Paul's parents. We were all in Epcot because we didn't get park hopper option (the option to go to more than one park in a day) and we all had dinner reservations at Epcot for Tuesday. I'd tried to follow Kelli's schedule as much as possible as Carter loves to hang out with the girls, but we very rarely saw them. Which is understandable. Their kids are ages 8-13, ours are 3 months to 5 1/2, so we were on very different agendas and timetables. Anyways, after we met up with them we headed for Test Track. After waiting in line and going once with Carter, we found out that Larry was able to get fast passes because he was retired from General Motors who runs the ride! How cool is that! Apparently just show proof you work(ed) for GM and up to 6 people can go on the ride with no wait. He did it with the girls later on and they were totally impressed :).
After that, we split up as they had dinner reservations in Italy an hour before we had ours in Morroco (the other half of Epcot is the world showcase with 13 countries represented). We had no time to do the world showcase part. However, with small children, I doubt they would have cared. I would have loved to participate in the food and wine festival that was going on. They had booths for virtually every country with tastes and wine samplings. I would have used all my snack coupons right there! However, we didn't get to do any of it because of the pace we had to take with little ones in tow. Oh, well. We also did not have for the Innoventions play area that I think the boys would have really enjoyed, it sounded like our Pacific Science Museum.
We also were able to visit with the Characters in a wonderful, air-conditioned area called the Character spot..
After dinner, Carter headed off with Kelli, Paul's parents may have taken Valerie (I'm all fuzzy now!) anyways, we ended up with Henri and took him on Spaceship Earth, which he thought was pretty cool (the ride in the big silver ball). Afterwards it was dark and he played with the stars on the pavement....
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