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So glad to see you back! Great updates--sorry your mom was a bit of a downer, but chalk it up to generational differences! Can't wait to read the rest!
Sounds like a really nice first day. Gald to hear Skyler is gaining weight too.
As much as I love my family but sometimes being together with them for 24 hours a day can be a little much. Probably just what is happening with you and your mom.
Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments. I'm glad I've gotten some time with all of this snow and freezing rain (meaning no Speech Therapy for Skyler last Friday or yesterday). Things may get a little more hectic between my next few posts, just to give you the heads up, as Friday before Skyler has Speech Therapy (if it's not cancelled again) I have to meet with someone from the Special Ed Department to give Skyler's History to her & Wed., we have a school Psychaitrist coming to observe him and do some tests on him at home (at least we're in the right track, and everything is getting done for him to hopefully go to school soon). I will try over the next few days to get those pictures up (there are over 100 just of DHS alone).
Cam, Thank you. Those were the only sleeping ones of him I was able to take during our trip, as I was ready to pass out when we got back to our hotel too.
Thanks everyone. My mom was a bit of a challenge during our trip, but it was nice having her there with us. I was trying to other than planned meals, and trying to go to attractions we'd all enjoy, I was trying to go with go with the flow, and it was so hard having her try taking some control of our vacation. When she & I got into it (ok, and I will say I wasn't trying to get my way with her, like a little child would) I was really realizing I don't need the same relationship with her that I have with my dad (which now is non-existant). I truely love my mom though, and was so happy we got to spend time with her.
So glad to see you back! Great updates--sorry your mom was a bit of a downer, but chalk it up to generational differences! Can't wait to read the rest!
Heather, one of her comments to all of my tipping envelpes was "Well, I've actually been to Disney more recently than you have, stayed on property, and I've never left tips for the bellhops, or housekeeping." Even just for my daily allotted cash I had on hand, tips for meals, and for Skyler's Hair Cut, I kept getting the comments "You and your tip envelopes."
I'm sorry but they work hard too. I took offense to her continuously taking the Mousekeeping Envelopes out of our room and handing it back to me instead of leaving it for them. They did get their tips from me, and I even left our undrank Water Bottles on our last day for them (actually offered them to them as they came to clean the room) knowing I couldn't take them on the plane and it was so hot, those ladies had to be dying of thirst. But more on how we spread some magic later to come in the TR.
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Welcome to Baby Maddy!
Glad Skyler is ganing the weight he needs. Dylan doesn't weigh much more; he's 33 pounds right now and about 39 inches tall. But that kid eats ALL day long! Constantly wants a snack - I guess he's built like his Daddy - tall & skinny!
The beach and the turtles looked like fun.
You sure fit a lot in your first day at Disney! Sorry your Mom was being a debbie-downer, but I'm happy to hear you didn't really let it get to you. (I'm a little worried about so much family togetherness this year as there will be 10 of us!)
All caught up!
Welcome to Baby Maddy!
Glad Skyler is ganing the weight he needs. Dylan doesn't weigh much more; he's 33 pounds right now and about 39 inches tall. But that kid eats ALL day long! Constantly wants a snack - I guess he's built like his Daddy - tall & skinny!
The beach and the turtles looked like fun.
You sure fit a lot in your first day at Disney! Sorry your Mom was being a debbie-downer, but I'm happy to hear you didn't really let it get to you. (I'm a little worried about so much family togetherness this year as there will be 10 of us!)
Thank you so much Kelly. We can't wait to meet Baby Maddy, and I have even gotten Skyler to say "Baby Cousin Maddy" when he sees her picture (with a gigantic smile on his face). Thank you, I'm glad Skyler's gaining the weight too. I actually need to put Skyler on our home scale, but he is 38.5 inches (so not much shorter than Dylan). He is like Erick too, tall & skinny, and eats all day long as well, but Skyler would rather snack on his fruits, veggies, yogurt, & cheese all day. I'm actually slowly but surely actually changing both his diet & mine to Gluten-Free & Casin-Free (so no more yeast, flour, or dairy for either one of us). The good news is I'm not the only one thinking of this as Erick's dad is also wanting to try the Gluten-Free Diet to help him with his Diabetes. We'll see how that goes though for all 3 of us.
Thank you, we had a lot of fun with the Sea Turtles, at the Beach, & Pool. Thanks, my mom was kinda being a Debbie Downer(and that was what I thought with all of her negative comments). In the end, I was glad she had fun with us (even with her innitial complaint on the MNSSHP tickets costing so much, but I was so happy to hear her reaction at the end of the night, more on that in the next post after I can get our pictures up). I don't blame you for feeling worried about 10 of you. Honestly that's kind of how I'm feeling if there are 9 of us going when we head back to Florida next Christmas (2012), even just for a day. I hope she isn't like that when we go to Chicago, as she has complained that Skyler's & my trip is a little too long. I think she forgets that sometimes Skyler gets overwhelmed, and with the number of relatives we'll be visiting, it will be easier to space everyone out during our trip, other than Easter Day, like she used to do with my sister & I.
Oh and Skyler is picking up more on one of Dylan's favorite things, Choo-Choo Trains. He cannot get enough of Thomas now, and all of the trains.
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I'm working on getting pictures of our DHS Day in right now as we speak, but to give you something fun while viewing our Play & Dine at Hollywood & Vine Pictures, I am giving you a Hidden Mickey Search There are a few of them. They aren't any that are physically at Disney World themselves, but my mom actually got some Hidden Mickey's in some of her pictures she took of Skyler! Have fun discovering the Hidden Mickeys! There are probably 12 or 13 of them.
Sorry, I'll add all of the Hidden Mickey Pictures later as my last post wanted to lose all of the pictures I just entered in, so I'm trying to get my favorite pictures in this post for you all to see. The Hidden Mickeys will have to come a little later
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Sorry I forgot to add in the 2 pictures I took of food that day. I'll re-add them after my MK pictures are done uploading. I am going to get in my next update, so I can hopefully wrap up our TR before we head to Chicago.
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The pictures are all great, but I especially like the one of Skyler asleep! So sweet! 
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