More Disney

Ok, so I had just photos the last post.  Now for some commentary.  After the girls were well, we resumed potty training.  We had started in March only to be de-railed.  So, FIRST chance I got, I started again.  I have to say, honestly, part of me feels like a failure that I have three year olds that aren't potty trained.  It was time, which was why I started in March.  I was so discouraged that I had to stop.

We picked back up a few days before the long drive down to Orlando...literally only 3-4 days prior.  So, I wasn't sure how I wanted to handle the drive down.  I didn't want to resort back to diapers and send the wrong message, but with only a few days under our belt, I wasn't ready for panties.  One or more accidents early on with many, many hours to go wouldn't have been good.  We did pull ups.  Good compromise.  And we did portable potties in the back of the SUV.  So, the girls knew to tell us when they needed to go from the few prior days of training, so I was counting on that on the way down.  Sure enough, they did!  We made it ALL THE WAY TO ORLANDO in the same pull ups we left Atlanta in.  What I haven't told you....we stopped THIRTEEN TIMES!!!!  Two of those stops had nothing to do with potty, breakfast and lunch.  And there may have been a gas stop in there.  But, there were several false alarm stops from Kaitlyn.  None from Nicole; she meant business.  If she said she needed to go, she delivered.  The portable potties in the back were the only saving grace.  That meant that every stop didn't have to take 5-10 minutes and instead could be 1-2 minutes.  So, all in all, it still only took us maybe 8.5-9 hours to do a 7 hour drive.

We arrived and went to Downtown Disney to T-Rex for dinner the first night.  Those photos were the previous post.  The next morning, we woke up and went to Magic Kingdom.  And Nicole just didn't seem to be completely herself.  First clue:  she refused her chocolate milk!  What!  She never does that.

I, of course, had my plethera of medicinal crap with me.  I took her temperature, and I don't remember now, but it was above 100.  GREAT!  Why, oh why, can't our family EVER have one HEALTHY Disney trip?  Anyway, I asked Nicole if she still wanted to go see Mickey and she did.  And we did.  But she really wasn't herself the entire morning.  We always leave mid-day to go back for naps.  We did that again, and after nap, she seemed a bit better.  The open question was:  how long before this hits Kaitlyn too?

Here are some Magic Kingdom photos:

Not a whole lot of excitement yet...I blame Nicole not feeling well.  :-)  Think it rubbed off on Kaitlyn.

On It's A Small World...a bit of a smile.  That's the least I would expect on her FAVORITE ride.  And I mean Favorite by far.  In our March trip, we rode this three times in one day!!!!

On the Merry Go Round.

More to come later....

Disney Trip - July - Downtown Disney