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January 24, 2014

The Magic Continues

Day 3 - Sunday, December 8

We went back to the Magic Kingdom for our second day and when we walked in, we saw Marie from the Aristocats.

Then we saw Aladdin and Jasmine.

Rode Aladdin's magic carpet ride.

Jessie from Toy Story

Took a rest in the shaded play area. I almost couldn't get her to leave because she made a friend here.

Tinkerbell! This one of our favorites. She was so personable and sweet with Emma. Here they are making fishy faces together because Emma has fish on her dress.

Periwinkle was also with Tinkerbell. Emma really liked her too.

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too.

TEACUPS!!! She loved going really fast on these. I was so dizzy every time we got off.

Swiss Family Robinson tree house.

Teacups again...

Goofy

Daisy

Minnie

Riding Ariel's ride

Parade of princesses

Jungle Cruise

We let her pick out a couple of things from the store and she picked ears and a baby Minnie. She still sleeps with the baby Minnie.

We were really surprised how much she liked the roller coaster. We must have ridden it 10 times.

Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen. This was her favorite movie when she was younger.

Aurora

Snow White

While Josh and Emma were in line to meet Aurora and Snow White, they met this little girl, Gia. In the meantime, I was in line for us to see Ariel. There was a LOT of "you go stand in line for that ride/person while I go with Emma over here." Since they had gotten to know each other, Gia and her dad came with Josh and Emma over to meet up with me so Gia could meet Ariel too. They were so sweet together!

Ariel in her grotto

One more picture in front of the lit up castle before we headed to dinner at Boma.

Another fun filled and exhausting day! We went to eat at Boma on this night which was at the Animal Kingdom.

Such great food...we were all full and ready to head back to the hotel. Even though it was 11:00 at night, we went for a little swim before bed which Emma thought was awesome. She said, "we are going get to swim in the dark??!!" We swam for about 30 minutes and then headed to bed so we could rest up for the next day.

December 20, 2013

A Magical Day

Josh and I took Emma to Disney...and it was MAGICAL. And exhausting.

I have way too many pictures to make this into one post, so sit tight and prepare yourself for the first installment of a ton of pictures...

DAY 1 - Friday, December 6

I will start out by saying that Emma was devastated that James did not come with us. She just kept saying, "Why don't you want him to come with us?" I did my best to explain to her that between his constant snacking, nap time and not being big enough to ride most of the rides that he would decrease her time to spend with princesses and Mickey Mouse. She didn't buy it.

Nonetheless, she was ecstatic to leave. She even had fun playing at the airport as we waited to board.

About to take off. We let her open an early birthday present to help make the flight pass by. It was a Nintendo DS and tw games. She got the hang of it pretty quickly.

For our first day, we headed to our hotel near the Disney property and relaxed at the huge splash pad. We only stayed here one night. We figured it wasn't worth it to pay the extra money to stay at Disney and pay for park tickets when we were only there for half the day.

Emma and Josh had turned into little prunes by the end of this afternoon at the pool.

DAY 2 - Saturday, December 7

We checked into the Polynesian hotel at Disney.

And we were off to the Magic Kingdom.

We hit the bibbidi bobbidi boutique...not over the top all! She got her hair, makeup and nails done. Clearly she was over the moon at this point.

Naturally, our first stop was to meet Cinderella.

Followed by Aurora.

Off to ride some rides...standing in line which we became very accustomed to on this trip.

Met Gaston on our way to Belle's castle.

Story time with Belle.

Racing cars with Daddy.

Cinderella's castle all lit up at night.

Dinner time at Chef Mickey's.

Emma's face as she is looking up at Goofy. She was in pure awe. Before the characters came into our room, she was so excited and anxious that she couldn't even eat. She was bouncing around and giddy.

I have to pause here for an Emma story. We got an autograph book and got a couple of signatures the first day. Everybody signed it that we met that day, with the exception of Belle . We met her at story time which is more of a production than a meet and greet, so they don't do signatures there. When we got to Chef Mickey's she kept asking me if I thought Goofy, Pluto, etc. would be able to sign the book. They all did and I am not exaggerating when I say that every SINGLE time we were in line for an autograph, she would squeal with excitement when she saw them signing somebody's book in front of us. She would say, "They do it, they do it!!" It was adorable and just made me realize that this was really magical for her.

Okay, back to the characters. Goofy!

Pluto - she said, "I didn't know dogs could write their name." To which I replied with the obvious, "That's one of the reasons they say Disney is magical."

THE Mickey Mouse.

Donald Duck - her favorite {because he is silly}.

Minnie Mouse

On our way to dinner, Emma met a little boy named Jayden on the monorail. We ended up sitting next to him at Chef Mickey. By the end of dinner they were great friends. Even though it was almost 10:00 by the time we were done eating, we all decided to go see the fireworks show at the Magic Kingdom. Here they are running inside the park so that we can find a spot.

And here they are chatting {about who knows what} while we wait for it to start.

Right before the show started. Emma was so excited to see Tinkerbell fly down.

Emma loved it and I'm so glad we went. It was a great ending to our day.

Staring off at the fireworks display.

We jam packed our days so we didn't get back to the room until about midnight. Somehow Emma still had a lot of energy and was bouncing on her bed with glee. We finally said, "Okay, you have to go to sleep so that we can get up and do it all again in the morning." She literally laid down and I think she fell asleep before her head hit the pillow.