I think I mentioned that my sister is doing the Disney College Program this semester; she's spending four months working at Disney World and taking classes for her vet degree. Chris and I had planned on taking Madeline, but decided at the last minute (literally, like 2 weeks before) that she was too young. Before we left, we had some fun time together.
Eating guacamole at Qdoba. Madeline can eat her weight in guacamole. Seriously, it's kind of impressive; she LOVES the stuff. Considering I didn't even TRY guacamole until I was 25, I consider this pretty incredible.
We spent a few mornings at the new All About Kids. AAK is a gym that just opened by our house. They have dance, gymnastics, karate, and swimming lessons, as well as a section with bounce houses. This is the ONLY picture I have of Madeline here not blurry. She basically runs around the entire time. I actually sweat chasing her, which is a little embarrassing.
Playing house at Pottery Barn Kids. Madeline is turning into quite the home maker. She likes to take care of all of her friends (Sally the baby doll, Violet the bear, Molly the scarecrow, bunny, etc) and clean. Sometimes she purposefully makes messes just to clean them up.
She loves the fountains at the mall- we stopped here to have a pretzel and watch the water. She loves throwing pennies! She'll throw all day long, which means that fountain has some of my silver coins too!
It was hard to leave our sweet girl, but we really thought it was for the best. So, as we headed to the airport, we dreamed about a relaxing few days away from the chaos of building a house, stressful jobs and a wild, willful toddler.....until we got to the airport and were reminded that we were going to DISNEY WORLD. I kid you not, there were 75 kids on our plane! I've never seen anything like it.
This flight is much different than the one to Bermuda...
But, we hit the ground running when we got to Orlando and never looked back!!
Little sis in her work clothes. Disney has some of the craziest outfits I've seen, but Mercedes still looks pretty cute in hers!
Also that day Animal Kingdom...
The next day, we headed to Magic Kingdom. Nearly everyone at Disney wears some type of button that proclaims what they're celebrating: birthdays, 1st visits, reunions, adoption anniversaries, honeymoon, etc. My sister made Chris wear a first visit button which meant workers would shout "YAY FOR YOUR FIRST VISIT!! WAHOO!!" He was a really good sport about it. Here he is, with his button, in front of Space Mountain.
Beating up on little sis in the Buzz Lightyear ride
The last night - in front of the Epcot Ball.
Those are just a few pics from the trip - I might upload some more later.
We had a great few days away, except Madeline got very sick. Several hours after we left, she threw up. And it kept coming. Poor little baby. Chris and I felt AWFUL being away from her and thought about her constantly on our trip. We know she was in fantastic hands with her nana and papa, but it still stinks. They did spoil her rotten though. She had to be out of daycare yesterday even though she was feeling much better, so they took her to all of her favorite spots: Panera, Barnes and Noble and the park! I did get this picture while I was away. I guess someone has to work while mommy and daddy play, right?!
Thanks to nana and papa Hughes for watching Maddie while we snuck away for a few days! We really appreciate it!
