Four of a Kind

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Walt Disney World - Princesses

Our Little Princess

Princess Aurora & Ella

Princess Cinderella & Ella

Princess Belle & Ella

Ella really liked Belle.

Belle even said that they looked alike. Of course that thrilled Ella to think she looked like a Princess.

Ella & Ariel

Ariel wanted to meet Hudson but he wasn't exactly thrilled

Ella playing in the Ariel playground waiting to meet her

Jasmine, Ella & Aladdin

Ella & Mary Poppins

Snow White & Ella

Our last Princess to meet

We went to meet a couple of Princesses and get autographs but that made Ella want to meet all of them and get their autographs. Some of them were quite a long wait. Hudson would start to get a little fussy waiting in line but as soon as he saw the Princesses he just stop and stared. They both were a little star struck. Ella was really cute meeting each Princess she would smile and when they asked her name she gave them her entire full name.

Well amazingly we did get to see all the Princesses.

Walt Disney World

Santa in the Christmas Parade

Riding on the Magic Carpet Ride

Hudson's first time on a carousel and he loved it

Ella and I rode on the Goofy Roller Coaster. It was a fast ride but Ella loved it and kept her hands up the entire time.

Dumbo ride

Mad Tea Party

Main Street at night

Those little white dots on the picture were little snow flakes. It was really beautiful to see it snowing in 70 degree weather.

Cinderella in the night parade

The fireworks were amazing but both kids were clinging on to us

Are we crazy for taking a 3 year old and a 1 year old to Walt Disney World during there busiest time of year? YES! But the kids had a great time. There were so many people there you couldn't walk without being bumped by another person. Ella almost got trampled a couple of times, so John had to carry her.

The lines were extremely long but we did get to go on a lot of rides. Hudson was even able to go on quite a few. But Ella didn't care if she didn't ride on the rides. She was just as happy seeing the Princesses, eating snacks and getting Souvenirs (which she wanted everything she saw). When I asked her what she wanted to do for the day she said "I want a balloon." Pretty hard to disappoint with such low expectations.

Friday, January 2, 2009

Sandy Beach...NOOO!

Family day at the beach

Papa giving Hudson some sea shells

Our cute little statue

Ella searching for sea shells

Ella trying to convince Hudson he can walk on the sand

Baby Hammer Head Shark

Yeah! He can walk on the sand

We went to the beach a couple of times since it was only 10 minutes away. The kids DID NOT like the beach. But we did make them at least feel the water and touch the sand. Hudson would not move at all. Ella eventually did okay and enjoyed looking for sea shells. They both did a little better when they had their shoes and socks on, but Hudson still didn't want to move.

When we did go out to eat we would pick restaurants that were on the water or on the beach. On our last night we went to a place called Sharky's. After we ate we found out why it is called Sharky's because we saw someone catch a baby hammer head shark. It was too little so he threw it back in the water but both kids liked looking at the shark.

Florida here we come...

Ella riding in her car seat stroller

Hudson relaxing before getting on the plane

Even with a bad ear infection Hudson did pretty good on the plane

Opening table presents before Christmas Dinner

More Presents to open

We left Christmas morning to fly to Florida and arrived just in time for Christmas dinner with my Dad and Grandparents. Many more posts and pictures too come.