Day 2 Orlando at Animal Kingdom

It was like getting a glimpse of Africa in our day. It was beautiful and amazing to see these wild animals on a safari up close. Hanna loves animals and said today was better than Magic Kingdom.

We rode on

-Kilimanjaro Safaris

-Expedition Everest (rode it 2-3 x’s)

-DINOSAUR

-Avatar Flight of passage (we heard this ride is the closes feeling you can get to skydiving. We also heard when this ride first came out wait times were 5 hours long,

lucky for us, we only waited 35 minutes to ride on it).

-Walked on all the amazing trails

Saw...

-UP! A Great Bird Adventure

Unfortunately, they weren’t showing any other shows because of COVID

One tired mama!

Singing Parrot

Owl flies over my head.

Uncle Michael had this exact same toy when he was a kid.

Dragon

Can you spy the bats?

Tiger

Hippo

Zebra's

Gorilla

Hippo

Crocodiles

Hyena

Giraffe

Elephant

Cheetah

Lion

Avatar

Day 1 in Orlando at Magic Kingdom was a Success!

We flew into FL at 2:00am this morning and then headed to the park this morning. We were able to see and ride everything we hoped to and even left a couple hours early because we were exhausted.

Rode on...

-Thunder Mountain

-Haunted House

-Small World

-Peter Pan

-Seven Drawfs Mine Train

-Under the Sea

-Pirates of the Caribbean

-Buzz Lightyear

-Space Mountain

-Tomorrowland Speedway

-Splash Mountain

Happy 16th Birthday Hanna

Happy 16th Birthday Hanna! *We surprised her last week before she shaved her head. We leave Thursday for Disney World and Universal Studios Florida. *Hanna loves her new shoes from Uncle Kurt.

Kitten calendar from Daisy.

Doc Martens from Uncle Kurt.

Sunday best.

I offered to buy her any cake she wanted, 

but she just wanted my ice cream cake.

Crazy Hair Day

 Miss Match and Crazy Hair Day. You can’t tell from the picture, but we used colored chalk to color their hair and Jane has 2 ponies in the back as well. Danny texted me after dropping them off to double check it was really crazy hair day because he didn’t see any other kids with it, I hope he’s kidding!

February Misc.

Way to go Clark! 

Dress up like favorite book charter.

Fun night at the park.

Mom's been going curly.

Hanna's Haircut

As an Early Childhood Educator in college, I was taught to say, “yes” to toddlers as often as possible. Well, now I’m a mom of teens and I feel teenagers need to hear, “yes” way more than young children need to hear it. Mom can I pierce my ears? “Yes”. Mom can I dye my hair, “yes”. Mom can I shave my head? “Yes”. Does this mean my child is out of control? No! We talked about the consequences, we talked through her reasons, we talked about different situations she may feel uncomfortable in, but guess what she still wanted to do it, so dad shaved it for her. Some great advice I’ve learned from the Light the Fight podcast is to “Err on the side of the relationship”. There was no fight or argument over these situations, we had respectful conversations and then said, “yes”! Let’s try and say, “yes” to our teenagers more often.