Good perspective for the holiday season

When you feel like complaining about the holidays, read about this family:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20071121/cm_uc_crmmax/op_194440

Teeth!

Sammy has a tooth! Lower front, just barely peeping through this morning. Don't have a pic of it yet but will post one when I have it.

Sam's New Tricks

Just tonight Sam was up on his knees! He's rocking and still going backwards but he can get up on his knees. I also noticed today that he dropped something from his high chair and looked down for it. Yesterday he started clapping. He's just picking up something new every day!

Going to the second hand...

WAR EAGLE! We beat Bama for the SIXTH year in a row! My kids have never lost an Auburn-Alabama game. I guess Nick Saban hasn't made enough yet....

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a very mild day for Thanksgiving. The kids had a great time playing outside and enjoying the nice weather. (They'd better - it was 19 in KC this morning!) We spent Thanksgiving just the four of us (plus Jordan) and had a nice day. Robert made a great turkey and trimmings and we all took it easy. Hope everyone else had a great Thanksgiving!

Disney, Day Eight

Day eight was the day to go home. Boo! We did save one more bit of fun for this day. We had breakfast with Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, Pooh, Tigger and the Mad Hatter. Gabby wore her Alice in Wonderland dress, which made Alice say she didn't know who she was anymore! She loved that! We then hit the Marketplace before leaving to do a bit of shopping. It was a very hot day so Gabby had to play in the fountains. Finally we had to go but we'll be back another time - we have to take Sam one day!

Disney, Day Seven

Our last full day of Disney fun. We were up and out before the sun was even up to Chef Mickey's for breakfast. We saw Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto. Then we were back to the Magic Kingdom, Gabby's favorite. We rode the carousel with Goofy right after we got there. Then we took Gabby on some new rides like Splash Mountain, Goofy's Barnstormer and Space Mountain. She loved Splash Mountian, although she wore her poncho so she wouldn't get wet. She learned how to raise her hands on a roller coaster on Goofy's Barnstormer. She was barely tall enough to ride Space Mountain (which came back to get us later).

We rode all the rides she wanted to ride. It rained in the afternoon and we found out that Dumbo is also a water ride. Yes, we rode it in the rain! I don't have any pictures - the camera was under the poncho for safe-keeping.

As our day came to an end, we had our worst moment. She wanted to ride Space Mountain as her last ride before we left. So we went back over and although her head touched the measure stick at the end of the line and front of the line earlier in the day (see picture), it did not at the measure stick in the middle of the line, which is where they were measuring at this time. The guy would not let her measure at one of the other sticks and would not let her ride. She was heartbroken and Daddy held her while she sobbed for thirty minutes. Meanwhile, our time was growing short and we did not want to end on such a bad note so we were trying to talk her into other things. Finally she was persuaded to visit Tinkerbell's shop to pick out something and then ride Splash Mountain before the park closed for the day. We went back to the room and all collapsed in the bed - worn out!