Things have been so busy for me that I am finally trying to catch up on this blog. Last month, my mom, my sister's family and my family took a trip to Disney World. The kids and their cousins had a blast together and we are looking forward to going again with them in a year or two.
We all flew out on the same airplane. Logan and Jasmine were excited to watch the airplanes while we waited for ours. Logan kept pointing out the window, saying "airplane!" with a big smile on his face. As for the plane ride, thank goodness for iPads and tablets, because both Logan and Jasmine got to watch movies on the plane and they did great. We even got to test out Logan's special earphones that plug directly into his sound processors.
We arrived at the Resort late, so it was off to bed for an early start in the morning. It was Star Wars weekend so we headed to the Hollywood Studios to check it out. The kids got to see some Storm Troopers and Darth Vader walking around. Although my kids are too young to know who they are, they still thought they were really cool! And their older cousins loved them! We headed to Magic Kingdom after this and our first ride was the carousel. Jasmine had to have a purple horse, so we found one and Logan rode next to her. He had a blast on it and cried when we took him off. This became a pattern after all the rides. I guess we really do have a daredevil on our hands!
The next day we went off to Animal Kingdom by ourselves. We got a bit of a late start so we missed some of the animals during their morning feedings. We were bummed about that, but we did go on a really cool safari where we got to see elephants, giraffes, warthogs, hippos and other animals. The kids had a great time doing that. While we took a break there, Logan started pointing and yelling "bird, bird, bird," which was cool because he had never said the word before or even pointed at one when asked before.
The day before we left, Andrew and Logan had a father / son morning at Magic Kingdom, while my mom, my sister, Jasmine and I headed to Downtown Disney for a princess makeover. She was very apprehensive to sit down and let them do her hair and makeup, which really isn't all that surprising since she is pretty shy around new situations. I actually had to bribe her to get her to do it. See, she LOVES stuffed animals so I told her we would go buy her one after we finished the makeover. She immediately decided to do it and had so much fun once they started it. We met up with Andrew and Logan at Magic Kingdom in the afternoon and got on as many rides as we could, since it was our last day there. We had planned to leave when the parade started since we had seen it a couple of nights before. However, I decided that I wanted to look in one last store on Main Street, Andrew and I got separated and couldn't get a cell signal, so I went out to wait for him where my sister and her family were going to watch the parade. Well, to complicate things further, my mom, who was going to leave with us, decided to go see if she could find us in the store. We must have all crossed paths because Andrew and I wound up watching the parade with my sister and my mom watched it from the other side! I'm glad this happened because we had a much better view and the kids REALLY liked the parade.
The next morning, we were up by 4:30 a.m. to catch a shuttle to the airport. And as if we didn't have enough excitement during our trip there, Jasmine starts getting sick on the shuttle and got sick a few times during our flight. I'm so glad we had a direct flight. But to put the exclamation on our trip, my dad was supposed to pick us up from the airport in my SUV and he finally got in touch with us when we were at the baggage claim. My SUV had a flat when he went to get it so we had to take a 30 minute taxi ride home!
Regardless of all that drama, we had a fabulous time at Disney World and Logan had some great listening and language opportunities there. While we were there, Logan said bird, bus, fish, horse and a few others that are escaping me for the first time.
