Of course, we brought our own potty so we wouldn't have to deal with rest stop or gas station bathrooms-EWWWW!!!
By the way...I totally forgot to update a post on Jack's potty training. He went straight to big boy underwear on the 2nd of June and we haven't gone back. He has had only 2 or 3 accidents. Of course he wears pullups to bed. I thought he would sleep on our trip that is why I put him in a pullup.
Evan slept almost all the way. Ryan and Jack on the other hand slept for only about 2 hours and it wasn't consecutively.
We slept a few hours and then went to the pool. I was afraid that Evan was going to get off his schedule while on vacation but he did just fine.
Sunday, my friend threw a party for the nursery workers at her church since she is the director. She tries to do that twice a year for them. She had one of those gigantic blow up water slides which was a blast.
Monday we went to the Science Center. That was fun. They had a new exhibit where you could pretend like you were fixing a car. You could change the tire, the filter, the fluids. The kids had a blast.
Tuesday -we went on an unplanned excersion to the Magic Kingdom. We were not going to go there for another year or so and planned to leave Evan with grandparents-maybe.
Well-we got an opportunity of a lifetime. We were in the right place, at the right time and were able to get into the park -FREE! Can you even believe it? Our friends in Florida know someone that works at one of the other Disney Parks and he apparantly has the priveleges of giving guest passes. WHO HOO! This was totally unexpected. I panicked a little about how we were going to manage having a baby in the park and still have a good time with the older boys. We had a blast! We stayed at the Magic Kingdom until Midnight. We saw 2 parades and we got to see the 4th of July fireworks because they were doing a practice run that night. Ryan and Jack said their favorite part was meeting Buzz Lightyear and riding the Buzz Lightyear ride. We got to ride all sorts of transportation-bus, monorail,boat, train.
You could choose the boat or monorail to get there...we decided to ride the boat there and the monorail back.
Their fav ride.
Another favorite-the 3D movie
We only let Jack have his paci at naptime and bedtime. He obviously missed both of those at Disney so when he got tired and a little cranky we broke our own rule.
This was at around 8 0r 9 after standing in line for almost an hour.
The end of a very long day!
I will update the rest of our trip with pictures in the next couple of days....so come back and see our day at the beach and Downtown Disney.
OK...I'm back and am updating the blog about the rest of our trip.
Wednesday we stayed low key and just went to a city park where there was a splash pad-sprinkers and a playground.
Thursday-we went to Ponce Inlet Beach and headed to Downtown Disney after that.
Their collection of shells
We had fun digging for crabs and then watching the crabs run around.
Look! The Goodyear Blimp!
The only time I took Evan out of the seat from under the umbrella was for him to eat. I was afraid of him being exposed to the sun. Maybe next year we will get a good family photo at the beach with all of the boys.
The following pics are from Downtown Disney. We headed there after the beach. Oh what fun! There was a place there called the Lego Imagination Center where you could build legos and there were lots of big things already built such as....
this BIG Dinosaur and
these dog walkers. Amazing..HUH?!
Of course, we made a purchase because these boys love to build legos.
If you notice behind them...there is a worker building a huge VW bug.
We went into another shop that had hats,
hats,
hats,
hats,
and more hats.
There was another store that you could build any kind of Mr. Potato head you wanted. Even a Buzz Lightyear one.
I thought this was such a cute pic esp. of Jack carrying Evan's little diaper bag. He was being my little helper.
Friday which was the 4th of July-we went to the mall and ate lunch and let all the kids play in the playarea. In the evening we headed to the science center and watched the movie Sea Creatures in the IMAX theater and then watched the downtown Orlando fireworks from the upper parking deck.
Saturday we said goodbye to our friends in Florida.
and left left for to see the INLAWS. We got there around 8pm and visited for a day and half.
Nice to visit the country. Chad's sister has 6 llamas and the boys absolutely love them.
Sunday we went to a country restaurant that we always go to when we go to TN called The Farmer's Daughter. It is really good.
Monday we headed back to NC at about noon and we reached our destination about 430pm.
WOW-What a week!
We went from the beach to the mountatins.
We had to get back because Evan had an MRI to get to on Tuesday the 8th.
