Tuesday: priorities

I didn't go grocery shopping yesterday, so we still don't have a lot of food in the house.  I worked today, so one option was to stop by the store after work to at least pick up some milk.

Instead we went to the library.  I had finished my latest book and the book I had on hold had just come in, and Isaac started talking about the "black book" today and wanted to read it again.  So between those two things I decided that the library was more important (and more fun) than the grocery store.

Lights out by Arthur Getsert

And the squirt bottles came out again when we got home.  I do love those things.

Monday: home

We're home!  We had a super early flight today.  It was nice to get it done with early, but it did mess up the day for us a bit.  (And Ben and I didn't sleep well last night, as normal with early flights.)  Joshua was rather wiggly on the plane.  Both boys fell asleep on the ride home at about 11am.  So we had an early nap time.  Joshua woke up after a normal length nap and Isaac didn't want to wake up...I think we talked to him twice before going in a third time and actually making him wake up at 2:30.

It meant that Joshua was cranky earlier than normal - he went to bed right after a late dinner.  Isaac was doing ok, but he also fell right to sleep tonight too.

It was nice to have most of the day to laze around though.  I started unpacking and doing the laundry.

Friday: relaxing

Today was a relaxing day.  We played in the pool, took naps, etc.  Isaac and Joshua played with some boxes of styrofoam peanuts for a bit too.

Wednesday/Thursday: magic kingdom

Last night Cheryl let Ben and I go out after putting the boys to bed.  We had a late supper, watched the fireworks by the castle, and then rode as many of the rides as we could.  They had extended hours for resort guests, so we had about three hours.

We made good use of them!  We weren't sure we'd stay the whole time, but we weren't up much past or normal bedtime, really.  We did the haunted mansion, a mineshaft one, pirates of the Caribbean, space mountain, seven dwarves, and the Stitch thingy.  My favorite was the seven dwarves... It was so smooth, although too short.

Today we went back.  The only ride we did again was space mountain.  But we still did a lot!  People mover, Winnie-the-Pooh (this was really cute), it's a small world, fantasmic, Peter pan, Dumbo, buzz, and a train.  It was hard to get a read on Isaac as to what he liked, although it wasn't the people mover because the dark part was to scary.  However, in the buzz ride his score was about 300 one third of the way through it and then I looked over and it was 301000!  He beat Been by about 3x, so must have hit something amazing.  Joshua liked Pooh (and Owl), and small world the most... I think.

And while we had a great time, I think we also left at just the right time.  Joshua had a small melt down in the car as we were driving home, but finally fell asleep if my hand was by his cheek.  Isaac had a headache but finally fell asleep with his head leaning forward on my hand.  (Luckily I was able to extract my hand from Joshua by then.)

Isaac asked to go to bed shortly after dinner even though he hadn't really been awake for very long, but Joshua is still awake.  I'll probably try to put him to bed soon.

Wednesday: Epcot/mk

Today started with Ben waking Isaac up... "Wake up Isaac!". " I'm not Isaac, I'm a talking rock, " said the lump under the sheets.

We again started with a character breakfast.  Joshua liked the characters from far away, but if they got close and interrupted his breakfast, he was not happy!  Isaac was excited about Pluto, since we learned his favorite animal is a dog yesterday.

Well, the boat just came to pick us up from the after hours in the magic kingdom, so I guess the rest will wait.  It's now 1:30, but ben and i went on a lot of rides tonight!

Tuesday: animal kingdom

Today we were of to the animal kingdom!

We started with a character breakfast.

Joshua's look shows how he felt about most of them and Isaac was OK but not super excited.  Donald actually made it around twice and since we weren't trying to do so much the second time I think he enjoyed it s bit more.

Then we went one an animal walk.  There was a bird house that we got to go in and Joshua loved it.  He's really enjoyed all the birds, from exotics to sparrows, this trip.

On the walk we also picked up an explorer book for Isaac.  Her could learn about different things and get stickers for doing so.  It was pretty cool and he really got excited about it.

We watched the Nemo show... Well done but a bit loud.  I especially enjoyed the actors who got to be big ocean plants.  I think I would enjoy that part.

Then a quick ride and onto the safari!  Joshua, of course, feel asleep about the minutes before the safari until the minutes after.  I tried to wake him up, but he wouldn't.  Isaac got excited by some of the wildlife and kept asking us to take a picture!

We slowly made our way back to the hotel where the adults napped ( or tried to) and the kids had their screen time.  Then to the pool and dinner and just like that it was way past bedtime!

Made it!

We made it to Disney!  The trip went rather smoothly... It helped that Joshua slept for a good part of it.  After an early dinner at Disney springs we went to the hotel (where the boys enjoyed making pillows mountains until the luggage came).  We followed it up with a swim and some dessert.

My phone app doesn't seem to let me do pictures, so they might have to wait again. :(

Ha.  Take that app.