This is for those readers out there who love Trader Joe's and who love Disney World (I know there's at least one of you out there!). Geof dropped me off at Trader Joe's to do a little shopping while he took Hi-Hat and the girls to drum lessons. After the lesson, Geof told Rella that they needed to pick me up from Trader Joe's. Rella exclaims to me as I get in the car: "Mommy! We got you and we're going to Monkey Joe's to trade pins!" :)
*Peppermint JoJo's now available at Trader Joe's, though I'm sure I'm the last person on the planet to become aware of this most important information.
**Can I just also say that the Non-Aerosol Original Orange Air Therapy Environmental Essence room spray is WONDERFUL. Adds a little zest to the house. I think it could just a catchier name, though.
***I'm having tabule for lunch tomorrow and either mandarin orange chicken or potstickers for dinner. For breakfast it's a wheat bagel with either pumpkin butter or cranberry apple butter. Can't decide.
Wow! With the kids sick and staying home from school and putting other work on hold, I'm getting lots done on my Disney pictures sitting with them here in the living room. Here are two more layouts from our first encounter with Main Street USA. Surely there must be a little condo tucked away somewhere on Main Street that we could move into! :)
So I've always seen myself in Hi-Hat. We're a lot alike. This year in first grade his reading has just skyrocketed. It's favor has even surpassed drumming. If you're ever wondering where he is, just check the couch or his bed or his "office" and you'll find him curled up with a book. He loves goofy chapter books, and right now he's loving the Roscoe Riley series. I'm a little torn over what to do about his night time reading. It's 10:41, and he's still not able to fall asleep, and he's reading "just one more chapter." The mom in me wants him to read one chapter and then go right to sleep. The person in me who can totally relate to him thinks he should just read and read until he falls asleep. I remember being a kid reading into the wee hours of the night, and I still read for about an hour before falling asleep. He's sometimes reading 2 chapter books each night. He's always been a night owl, so I think for now I'll go along with it and let him blossom with his new found skill. As he said with a sweet smile to me tonight, "Mom, I love reading. It's really fun. It's funner than TV."
So you will never take me at my word again. Ever. 'Cause here are a few more Disney pictures. Just to get you in the mood for Christmas. The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights at Hollywood Studios is quickly becoming a tradition for us. After experiencing it two years in a row, I'm thinking there's no turning back now. We simply must go see it every year. The lights are gorgeous, the music is festive (and they even play true Christmas carols!!), and the Florida snow is fun. I guess if we don't go next year, I have no choice but to put up my own strings of 3 million lights.
Hi-Hat and Fancy did a lot of dancing and hugging during our visit to the lights show. Gots lots of "awwww, aren't they sweet"s from other visitors. 8:)
OK, so I lied. I ended up working on a handful of Disney pictures today! Woo-hoo! Well, not entirely woo-hoo. Hi-Hat spiked a fever last night that was accompanied but stomach yuckiness, so he is home from school with me. We've been sitting at the kitchen table working on homework and class turkey projects, so I've had my computer with me slowly working on a couple of pages in between addition problems, feather gluing and calculating mileage for school journal entries. We had pretty good success in meeting characters this trip. I think Fancy was only disappointed not to have met Snow White or Jasmine this time around. Rella was very brave about meeting characters. She was always the first to run to a character with hugs and hi-fives. But then she was done with them and generally did not want to pose for group pictures. This was probably mostly due to the fact that many of our meet and greets were at character dinners (I think we had one each day!), and she was usually quite engrossed in her nuggets and mac and cheese. 8:)
funny that our only family picture of the entire week was taken with Lightning McQueen and Mater.
