WOW! What Fun!

Well, we have been having so much fun. You just can't believe how much Kelby loves it down here. I'll wait to put up more pictures when we get home, unless I have some extra time later today. Our days have been wonderful, but full. We've been trying to balance all the wonderful fun without getting over-tired kids. The girls have been waking up at 6:00 am and getting to bed late, so that is the challenge. I am just writing this all down, so I can remember it later.

So, Monday morning we got into the park and we were overwhelmed with the choices. We first hopped on the train around the park so Kelby could see everything. She liked the train a lot. I think our next stop was the tea cups. We think that is Kelby's favorite so far. The Tea Cup operator told Michael that we needn't wait in lines, but find the operators at the rides to get ahead in lines because we have "Make-A-Wish" buttons. That has been really nice. Right after the tea cups, we found Pooh, Tiger, and Eyore! The Disneyland guy with the characters spotted us and asked us if we wanted to come up the back way to meet the characters. They all spend extra long with Kelby since she is so special. We were a little afraid she would be scared of the characters, but she wasn't! Of course we visited the "It's A Small World" ride, which did kind of scare her. We spent a lot of time in Toon Town that morning too. She really loved that. It is just a fun colorful place with lots of things for her to touch and play with. We met Minnie and Mickey there too. After all that, we were pretty tired. We found some lunch at McDonald's and went to the hotel and take a nap.

fter our naptime, we headed over to Adventureland & New Orleans Square. We rode on the Jungle Cruise where Kelby got to see all kinds of animals. Next, we visited Tarzan's treehouse (which used to be the Swiss Family Robinson House) and Kelby loved that because there was a lot of stairs. We have discovered that Kelby favorite things are stairs and water. The simplest things make her very happy. We also took her on The Pirates of the Caribbean. She didn't even get that scared. Her favorite thing over there was the duckies just sitting on the water of the Mark Twain Riverboat ride. After that it was our mission to find this girl a balloon. They had ones shaped like Mickey, but we just couldn't find one of those, so we ended up getting her a mylar balloon shaped like Tigger. She got a hot dog for dinner and then we did a little shopping. She got a cool little lighted twirly thingy. She saw everyone else having one, so she wanted one. She also got a new water bottle that is really cool! We found some dinner for Mike and I...and by that time the girls were super tired. We've found that meal times are the most challenging. After dinner we got to see the Parade of Stars. Kelby really liked it. I videotaped almost the whole thing. She loves watching her own home videos, so I thought she'd love it later. We went home after that because Kelby was exhausted. Then it was bedtime.

Yesterday was a good day too. We went over early in the morning. Goofy was there at the entrance so we got a great picture. Daddy got her a cool Goofy necklace to wear. In Tomorrowland we found a ride with rocket cars that go around in a circle and can go up and down. Kelby really liked that one! Then it was our mission to find the Toy Story characters. We found Woody and Jesse in Frontierland and then went back to Tomorrowland to look for Buzz. The 3D movie there was fun. It was called "Honey, I shrunk the Audience". It scared Kelby a little bit, but I think she liked it in the end. Tegan does so good in all this stuff. She just hangs out. Buzz Lightyear was there and we got yet another great picture. Then we had an ice cream treat and headed out of the Park to take another nap. This was a earlier nap to keep her from getting too tired.

We headed over to California Adventure after naptime. We just wanted to see what it was all about. It was nice because there wasn't as many people there. Kelby got some lunch and then we went on a huge, cool Ferris Wheel. We hit the Carosel after that. She really liked that one a lot. Her favorite thing in this Park was the water! They had cool fountains and a big "lake" in the middle. We found the stars of "It's a Bugs Life" and got a picture with Flik. Then, the hit of the whole trip was a huge really cool sprinkler. Kelby got absolutely soaked. There were these really cool fountains and sprinklers that I just can't describe, but let's just say that she found her heaven on earth. I knew in that moment what Kelby will be like in heaven. If she could be that happy here on earth, that I am sure that heaven will be even better! I took a ton of video of her playing in the water so I can see it forever. Of course, unlike heaven, this little adventure had to end and the sun was going down, so she was freezing. I luckily had pants and a sweater for her, but we were out of luck on shoes. So, we went and found her some cute Minnie Mouse sandals.

California Adventure was pretty neat. She got to run around and dance there. The rides are for bigger kids, but she still liked it there for the atmosphere. It was time for dinner by that time, so we stopped at Denny's on the way back to the hotel. We layed the girls down for another "nap" after dinner because we wanted to take them back to the park at 9:00 pm to see the fireworks. Kelby was a little afraid during the fireworks, but when they were all done she said, "Those fireworks where fun. I wasn't scared." Then we got to go on a couple more rides because there weren't very many people still there by then. We went on the Rockets and Tea Cups again. Those were both here favorites. We found her some Minnie Mouse ears and a super cute "happy birthday" hat. Well, Kelby thinks it is a birthday hat, but it is really a pink princess hat with mouse ears sticking out. It is soooo cute. We hit the Dumbo ride just before the park closed. Then it was really late when we got back to the hotel, but the girls slept in this morning. Now we are off to the beach!