Disney: Day Three!

For our second day in the parks, we went to Magic Kingdom… The "real "Disney World!  We met our first princess of the trip, Ariel the Little Mermaid.  She was so sweet, talking a long time and giving lots of hugs to Ben and Anna.

Then we rode the famous monorail to the Comtemporary hotel and had brunch at Chef Mickey's.  The kids were lost excited about eating Mickey waffles and meeting Goofy :)

Then it was back to the Magic Kingdom for more rides.

Ben and Anna mostly liked the midway-type rides like this one: a flying Dumbo that you could fly up or down as it circled around.  We did this one, and also a dinosaur one, and Ben wanted to do another one with Magic carpets (Alladin), but we didn't get a chance.  We kept telling him they were all the same except the shape of the seat, but he didn't care!  Cute!

Our hotel had an arcade that was probably on Ben's top 3 favorites list.  :)

For dinner that night (thankfully after a long late afternoon nap), we took a boat from Magic Kingdom to a hotel called the Grand Floridian.  Three re you could eat dinner "with" Cinderella and other various friends of hers.  The night we went, unfortunately Prince Charming had been called away to a very important meeting at the castle.  However, since Ben was so convincingly dressed the part, Cinderella asked him to be her Prince Charming!  He was over the moon with all the attention he was getting.  Anna was thrilled to meet Cinderella, dancing from foot to foot, saying, "Cinderella!  Cinderella!"

Disney, Day Two!

On our first day at Disney, we went to Animal Kingdom.  Ben and Anna were most interested in meeting Mickey and Minnie, so that's one of the first things we did.

Ben rode his first roller coaster, called "dinosaur".   Mommy and Anna waited outside and caught a lizard.

For lunch we ate at Tusker House and got to meet Donald and Daisy!

Back to hotel...,to rest but no one took a nap except Mommy :)

Then fun times at the neatest pool we have ever seen!  It was themed like the movie a Finding Nemo...

Our First Disney Day!

We made it.....barely!  Hours worth of delays on two flights, and a bus ride later - we are finally at Disney World.  Considering we left the house at 8:30 this morning, it's been a long,,but fun, day.  The kids were thrilled to ride on an airplane for the first time.  They also rode on a monorail shuttle and tour bus for the first time!

We are staying at Art of Animation resort at Disney, and it is themed according to several movies, including Cars.  So our room, pool, everything is all about Lightning McQueen and friends.  Here are some pics of our "journey" (haha!) here.

Where did the month go?!

It's been a long time since the last post....I guess we've been pretty busy getting ready to go to Disney!  Well, I've been busy....these two cuties have been having loads of fun at school and playing at home.

Ben brought home a book from school and read the whole thing to me with no help - wow!  Here he is with his first book he ever read:

Anna has been more into playing dress-up lately.  Cute little rock star!

Last Pool Days

The pool closes in a week!  These kids are going to be bummed!

We had such a nice time with friends at the pool tonight. Happy, happy kids = happy, thankful mom and dad!!

Hawaiian Icee After School

She got Bubble Gum + Cotton Candy flavors, just like big brother :)

Anna's First Day of School!

Anna had her first day of preschool today!  She has Mrs. Robin again this year, with Mrs. Kim as a teachers aid, so she didn't hesitate at all to jump right in.  She said her favorite thing she did today was work puzzles and play jump rope outside :)

Cutie pies!!