Disney Day 2!

We woke up on April 30th to another day of beautiful weather. This was the day that Josh and I were looking forward to the most because we were heading to the Magic Kingdom. We thought Emma would just love all of the princess and stuff never mind the castle.

Ethan crawled right in the stroller in the morning, I guess there is no doubt that he was ready for the day!

Emma must have been overwhelmed with the whole situation because she refused to get her picture taken and kept asking to go home. Our day wasn't going as we expected so far but Ethan couldn't have been better.

This is the face Emma had most of the day, beautiful huh?

Both kiddos really enjoyed the Winnie the Pooh play park. Here is Ethan peeking in a honey pot:

Emma still loved meeting the characters. This day was princess day for us.

We finished up the day with some AWESOME fireworks!

Finally...Disney Day One

I was trying to think of the best way to tell our Disney story. I know it is going to be long so I have decided to post it by day. Now, after a much anticipated wait, here it is Day One of Disney.

We left for the airport at 4 am on April 28th to catch our 6 am flight. Both kids were fantastic on the planes. Ethan slept on both flights and Emma slept most of the second flight. When we arrived in Orlando around 11am both kids were well rested and ready to start the fun.

Our plan was to catch the Magical Express to our hotel and then go to Epcot for the rest of the day. We knew we had officially arrived when we saw this:

When our bus, oh I mean Magical Express, pulled up to our hotel I looked out the window and saw a man holding balloons and a sign that said, Disney's All-Star Sports Resort Welcomes the Almeida Family. That's us! When I got off I told the man that we were the Almeida Family and he congratulated us and told us that we were family of the day. They took our picture on the red carpet and walked us right up to our room. We didn't have to check in or anything. Everything was in our room waiting for us and we even got a free refrigerator for the week. This trip was starting off great!!!

Emma excited in our room.

Playing outside our hotel.

The "secret stairs" in the football.

After we stopped jumping up and down with excitement that we had arrived, the plane trip went fantastic, and that we were family of the day we had a little lunch at our hotel.

Then it was off to Epcot.

It turns out that Emma LOVED meeting the characters. It turned out to be her favorite part of our trip. We didn't know how it would go since Santa is still pretty scary but she ate it right up.

Meeting Mickey

...and Pluto

Minnie Mouse

Ethan, on the other hand, wasn't all that thrilled.

Donald Duck

Finally Goofy...

He swept Emma right off her feet. Can you see her hair?

He's so goofy!

Playing with R2-D2

Josh outside Mission Space

Day One went pretty well. Epcot was in the middle their Garden Expo and everything was just absolutely gorgeous! I wish I had taken more pictures of the princesses that had made out of flowers but that is were the Emma meltdowns began. We were up at 3am so all things considered it was a fantastic first day.

Tree Day

We headed up to Big John Leyden's Tree Farm last weekend to pick out the perfect tree. Emma spent the morning practicing to be a mommy, shoes and all.

Once we arrived at the farm (at the same time as the Danis Family, perfect and unplanned) we spotted the giagantic Santa.
Emma was less than impressed by him, more like terrifed by him. She let us take this picture from afar. Then stated, "We don't want to get too close incase he falls, or something, you know?"

Rock Climbing is always fun!

Our Tree, before the guy cut it for us.

Ethan is on cord patrol. That boy loves a good cord.

Emma perfecting her wife skills.

Our tree looks very good and we are proud of how it turned out. I picked the tree this year and our using Josh as a height comparison method of tree picking is still working out well for us.

A Pumpkin Patch....or three.

We are really enjoying our three day weekend here. We actually went to three pumkin patches yesterday but more on that later.


Ethan popped his second tooth this week. He looks so cute with those two little teeth on the bottom. We had to take the little man to the doctor this week. He woke up Thursday morning around 4 am on fire. I took his temp and it was 102.2. I thought it might be from teething but that is really high.

We took him in just to check his ears and stuff. The doctor said Ethan's ears looked clear but he had a little sore throat. We haven't seen any more symptoms since so that's good.

I have to be tricky to take any pics of Emma lately. Here is one I was able to catch. Please ignore the snack that is all over her face.
Sunday was such a beautiful day here. Josh and I always go to the Scituate Art Festival every year. We haven't missed once since we started dating in 1997. It is always Columbus Day weekend. We used to bring Bailey with us but now its the babies. We began our day there. My stroller gets so much attention it is funny. Ethan was riding in the bottom seat and Emma was in the top one. When ever we walk by people we can hear them talking about the stroller. People also stop and ask us about it. If you want attention pick up at Phil and Ted's.

Now for the three pumpkin patches. Last October we went to Confreda's with Lauren. We had a blast there and desided to stop by there after the festival. It was NUTS there. Cars were parked down the street and the line for the hayride was super long. We didn't even get out of the car.

Next we went to J&D Farm. They had a lot of activities for kids. Emma was dying to get her picture taking "peeking through those holes."

She also loved the big sand box. Who's says girls in skirts can't work the front end loader?

Mommy and Ethan

Hayride

See...the leaves are already changing.

"Hi, baby cow!"

The highlight of this farm was the cow train ride. Emma would not ride alone so lucky me, I got to climb in one of those cows. Our cow's name was Jelly Bean, which Emma thought was hilarious. We went around like 800 times. It was pulled by a small tractor and I thought it would never end. Emma did love it though. She was singing songs to me and giggling the whole time. I am sure she will be talking about it for a while now.

Emma and Mater

When we were on the hayride at J&D we noticed that there was no pumpkin patch. We were not going to buy pumpkins there because those pumpkins must have been trucked in. That is just silly so we went to farm number three of the day, Morris Farm. Morris Farm is right around the corner from our house and that is where we got Emma's first pumpkin in 2006.

Picking out the perfect pumpkin.

Weighing our little pumpkin

Emma weighing Ethan's pumpkin

Waiting for Daddy

Here is a little flashback picture from Emma's first trip to Morris Farm:


Today is Monday and it is 10:30 am. Emma do is STILL sleeping. We went over to our neighbor's house to watch the Pat's game last night (I don't even want to talk about how terrible that game was. I miss you Tom.) She ran around like a crazy girl with her boys so she must be catching up today.


See you soon!