Disney: February 19, 2010

Highlights from today:

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We all managed to stir relatively easy this morning after our late night.  Our alarm clock must have woke Graham up who stirs Campbell.  Soon, all of that causes Anderson to pop his head up followed by Reagan who wakes up but quickly closes her eyes when she see us.  Campbell was dressed and ready to go first. We had breakfast in the room this morning-pop tarts and then headed to Hollywood Studios.  We arrived a few minutes after opening and started out.

Robby headed to get Toy Story fast passes while the rest of us tried to see Tigger but he had to leave but he did wave hi to the kids.  The Playhouse Disney show was soon so that was our next stop.  Graham wanted to sit in Robby's lap but watched everything intently and even stood up and bounced like Tigger.  Reagan and Anderson ate it up-they knew the songs, the characters and helped dance and shout.  They were completely amazed with the bubbles, leaves and streamers that fell from the sky.  The Muppets 3D show was next.  Graham sat in his own seat but hung on to Robby.  It was pretty noisy and even had a real character that came out in the audience but we made it through without any major breakdowns.

Anderson was read to see Lightening McQueen and Mater next.  Reagan didn't want to see them and Graham wasn't going anywhere near them.  They were loud roaring their engines.  We played in the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids play area but there were lots of kids so we didn't stay there too long.  Anderson was in his element today seeing characters-all boy characters and not those princesses.  He told Robby that he wanted to see a Power Ranger and we saw the blue one (he doesn't even know who they are!).  Next we ran into an Army man and Anderson was able to see him too.

Since Hollywood Studios is a little light on the kiddie rides, we had to take everyone on the Great Movie ride to get in their ride quota.  Reagan freaked out a little and fussed more than Graham.  If it is a slow moving ride, he is happy as can be even if they are having a gun battle above his head. We had lunch at the ABC Commissary where we could tell that the troops were getting a little tired so we decided to skip the Little Mermaid show and go straight to the Toy Story ride.  Reagan and Anderson understood the concept but were unable to shoot and aim at the same time.  This was a ride that Tara and Robby could do over and over-and we could have since Robby had some how scored 12 fast passes.  But we just did it once and made someone else's day by handing them the fast passes. (they were already out for the day) so he looked with a group with kids.  The fast pass line was still a few minutes so we didn't feel like the kids could make the line again.  On the way out, Anderson wanted to look under the hat.  Reagan wasn't going to until she saw some birds playing in the bushes.  Before long, they were all chasing the birds around.  Once, Mom did look down and noticed that Graham was gone.  She saw him turn the corner and he was running somewhere.  Mom doesn't know why he took off or what he saw but he was going to get it.  When Mom caught him, he did just laugh!  He went right back to the buggy.

After the walk back to the car, everyone had juice boxes and milk.  Dad asked where everyone wanted to go tonight and Anderson replied "Nonna's house."  At the hotel, housekeeping was still working on our room so we assessed how we needed to pack the car.  After they finally finished we went in and started the kids naps.  While they were sleeping, Campbell has been staying wide awake-it is probably a good thing since then she sleeps at the park and is no trouble.  Mom and Dad repacked and started loading the van for our long trip home.

Waking everyone up from nap isn't always easy.  Graham was fussing and Dad opened the bathroom door to get him and Graham was standing facing the other way towards the shower curtain.  Dad said "hey" and he peeked around one side of the curtain.  So Dad had to say "over here" and poor Graham looked around the other side of the curtain.  Dad finally had to tap him on the shoulder before he figured out where he was.

We did have presents for them to open.  This was the first time Mom had seen Graham sat down and open something by himself and then he took it to Dad to open the package.  Reagan jumped up when Dad said there was a little present.  But after much poking and prodding Anderson finally opened his eyes to open his present.  Mom found some little Mickey and Minnie play sets before the trip and they came in very handy today.  The kids had pbj sandwiches and cheese sticks (Mom and Dad had leftover pizza) for supper.  Soon afterwards we were back at Magic Kingdom.

Our first stop was the train.  We circled the park on the train and everyone sat as still as they could during the ride.  Anderson said as we left the first station that in a minute we would see the racecars.  He is going to be just like his Dad and be great with directions and remembering things like that.  Like tonight on the monorail, Reagan asked if we were getting off and he said "no, this is just a hotel Reagan, just a hotel."

We rode the Tomorrowland Transit Authority ride again and Graham just grinned and raised his arms and said "weeee."  Reagan and Anderson love going through the tunnels and shouting "time tunnel."  Reagan's evening was made when we were able to see Belle along with Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.  Belle is Reagan's favorite princess and we had not yet seen her on our trip.  She noticed that she was on Reagan's shirt and pointed out that they both had brown eyes and brown hair-and that is exactly why Reagan said that Belle was her favorite.  Reagan was thrilled but only managed to say her name before she put her hand near her mouth and completely shut down.  The boys were standing behind Mom and Dad again with their hands in their mouths-they wanted nothing to do with the princesses.

It was nearing fireworks time so we hung out in a gift shop so Anderson and Graham didn't have to be terrified and it gave Mom and few minutes to pick out an ornament.  Next Reagan rode Goofy's roller coaster two times and then Anderson had his turn to ride it two times.  Anderson and Campbell hung out with Mom who waited with whoever didn't get to ride.  We had one last Buzz Lightyear ride before passing the people waiting for the parade.  The parade was SpectroMagic and we saw how lucky we were to just walk right upon perfect spots last night as the parade started.  It was crowded tonight.

After the monorail ride, we were back to the car and headed back to the hotel.  Graham falls asleep in the car every time we get in the car so he was the first to go to bed.  Reagan was asleep next, then Campbell and Anderson has just now closed his eyes.

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