I warn you now. The next few Disney posts are going to be entirely too long and jam packed with pictures, but consider yourself lucky. I'm saving you from having to view the other 560 photos I took in a 5 day timespan (not joking). You're welcome.
Going on close to a month ago now, oops, we took a post-deployment vacation to Every Princess' Paradise also known as Disney World. It was the perfect place for our family to reconnect and Chey and Daddy to get to know each other again. Yall know how much this vacation was needed for all of us. The love of Disney is something that the Giant and Mini-giant seem to have in common. Mostly Mickey Mouse, but this trip might have turned our little mouse lover into a full fledged princess.
Would you believe that this is actually one of only three decent pictures we got of the three of us together the entire trip?! And yes, I am wearing the happy birthday pin I was given at the entrance cause I'm cool like that. The first few "happy birthday"s I heard from the Disney workers were fun when I entered, but that wore off quickly when I remembered I'm not 5.
I had been talking to Cheyanne about Disney World for the last month trying to introduce the idea of our vacation to her. Every time we saw one of the commercials we would "talk" about how Mickey Mouse lives in that castle (best explanation for a Cinderella-who toddler) and how Mickey Mouse can't wait for us to come visit him. I repeated many times that when Daddy gets home, we're going to go see Mickey and all of his friends at the big castle. I have no idea if any of this talk stuck with her, but it made me feel like I was preparing her. You just never know how Cheyanne is going to react to new things.
Well, let me just show you how far that got us.
Our first encounter with a character. Donald.
I'm pretty sure she would have actually punched him if he had gotten any closer.
Yep, that good.
Ok, so we thought, maybe its a fluke. Let's keep going and see if we can sneak a peak with Mickey Mouse. Surely she'll love to see her favorite person.
No. Wrong. Bad decision Mom and Dad.
There you go baby. Just cover your eyes and it will all be over soon. If you can't see them, they don't exist.
Cheese, and we're done. I actually apologized to Mickey and Minnie as we backed out of the room… like a doof because you know, they've never dealt with scared children before. Duh.
After the trauma of the previous events, it was fun ride time. One great thing about Disney is that it truly is a place for people of all ages. It wasn't geared towards one age group. There were rides and entertainment for everyone, Cheyanne included. I think I was a little nervous about that before hand.
Her favorite thing by far the first day (and a few days later as well) was the Its a Small World ride. Its outdated and at parts seems more like a traveling Chucky fair, but she didn't see it like that at all. She loved it and was not happy when it ended. So, at the end of this ride we learned two things. 1) She doesn't like things bigger than her that shouldn't be and 2) she doesn't like when rides are over. But who does?
Amazed.
Twins?
I have video of her on the ride and if you listen carefully you can hear her saying "Wow" throughout the entire ride. Wow is a word she picked up on the trip pretty quickly. I know some of the video is really dark, but its too cute not to show you.
Update : its still uploading to youtube so I'll add that video in tomorrow.
OK, here we go.
After a quick wardrobe change which entailed a buttnaked baby in the center of Main Street, we ended day one the best way that I could possibly imagine, with prime real estate seating near the castle to watch the night parade and light show. So worth the late night with a tired toddler and the battle to exit through an obnoxiously huge crowd of other late night toddlers and parents.
Yep, I'm holding said sleepy toddler and a corn dog.
The moment Chey and I both discovered our new love of Disney corn dogs. I'm not brave enough to try any other ones at this point.
My favorite.
And my other favorite.
End of day one concluded. This is going to take a while.
