Home from Disney World

Well, we survived! We made it home from Disney World in one piece. We've already talked about a return visit and I'm gunning for a visit to Disneyland next time. I'd love to be able to share with the kids where I grew up.

The trip was everything Kaylin imagined and more. Her highlights were meeting Ariel, breakfast with Mickey, Pluto, Lilo & Stitch, the fireworks & parade at Magic Kingdom and of course, hanging out with her cousins. Though, I think she'd have been perfectly content if we'd simply flown to Florida just to meet Ariel. She absolutely loved that! And to top it off, Kaylin was wearing a purple shirt that day, naturally, as it's her favorite color, but then Ariel offered up that it is also HER favorite color. Whew, Kaylin was just over the moon! Her reaction when she saw that the princesses were REAL PEOPLE was absolutely priceless. She knew that the other characters weren't "real" and were in costume, but when she saw her first princess and that it was a real live girl, not in costume, her jaw hit the floor. It was just too cute and I only wish I'd have been able to capture the look on her face with the camera.

Clicking on the album below will take you to the photo album with our pictures, including a few short videos of the Spectromagic parade and fireworks show at Magic Kingdom. This link will take you to our photopass pictures, taken by cast members of Disney World.

WDW 2008

Well, I need to get to bed. We just got home from seeing Dark Knight, I just wanted to make sure I updated this, as we've been home for almost a week now!

Ready for potty training already?

I think Jonathan may be gearing up to start potty training. It started with him "holding himself" while or after he had just pee'd, I'm not sure which. I just know he would alert me that way. Now, he'll just go ahead and remove the diaper and start crying/whining for me to change it. I am so not ready for this, but I know I'll need to follow his cues.

Kaylin was so easily potty trained that I've worried from day one about potty training Jonathan. For starters, I know that boys are harder. I've taught in potty training classrooms before, I've seen the differences first hand. I also know that Kaylin was abnormally easy in that she never really even had any accidents. Once she started taking her diaper off we started at home and soon after she moved up into the next room at school, where it was then scheduled into her day. If I remember correctly, she was also around this age.

So, I'll just have to follow Jonathan's cues and hope for the best!