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Thank you. so much. Sorry I haven't had a chance to reply yet. Skyler's is back to his normal self now (thank you Children'S Claratin). Thank you. all for the feel better wishes for Skyler. I wanted to wish everyone following along a very Happy Mother's Day. Itwas nocera celebrating with my mom a week ago in Florida and I felt likes Erick, Skyler's & I celebrated on Friday night at them Imagination Movers Concert in Baltimore, MD. We had a great time. Skyler's wasn't able to shake any of their hands or get a pictures taken with themOf (I did take some of him standing near them rail with them.in them background thought), but they did wave and smile at him from them stage and he caught a beach ball they threw in them audience that made its way up to our box seats. All 3 of us are still talkimg about how great of a.show it was and how Family Friendly it was and enjoyable for all. We even found a video someone posted on their Facebook page of their daughter's interaction with Movers Rich and a little blue spec you could see was Skyler's;,)! My DMIL has been thanked profusely by us for them tickets as we were beyond thrilled she surprised us with them.
And my DSis had informed me she is expecting a little Princess! I cannot wait to meet my new Niece Preston when she makes her grand arrival and have her join us in WDW!
Kelly, congrats on your new Nephew to be. I am so excited for you.
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Thank you so much Cheryl, Kathy, & Kim. sort if so don't get to reply much today. Skyler & I have Skyler's class field trip to the zoo in a little while.
Kim, our bottle of Zyrtec was MIA, but some homeopathic medication my DILS bought to give Skyler wasn't working for him:-(.
Hopefully I cam get back on after the field trip today. Have a great day everyone.
Glad Skyler is feeling better. The Concert sounds a lot like the Wiggles concert I took Evan to a few years ago. They come out into the audience and shake hands as well.
Sorry everyone that I have been MIA again. Skyler's Field Trip on Monday was cancelled, making a not so happy kiddo that he had to be woken up early on his non- school day, and was running a mild fever yesterday, so I kept him home from school. During the week while Skyler's was at school, I finally got my 2012 Passporter to help me plan our next trip. I also found at Walmart 2 Mickey Mouse 3 Ring Binders and on clearance some Disney Stationery which I can't used for my trip planning and for notes for the group and such. One of the binders I will look for 3 ring binder sheet protectors to place my old photos from childhood trips to WDW and will used those as my Autograph Book as I have the characters autograph my old pictures. I may even ask my DSis when we started talking about starting to plan our trip if she wants to include our cousin's Amber & Amber's DBF Jared who live in Florida (she's the younger sister of the cousin's who just recently passed away). It would be fun to have her there with us, and I have told Erick he would likes & get along with Jared quite well, as would our DBIL Joe.
A funny tidbit, when I was in Florida for my cousin'so Funeral, we weren't even 10q minutes driving South on I-95 to Fort Lauderdale, & my mom asks my Aunts & I "Who wants to go to Disney World?" I even said to her "Isn't that in the opposite direction of where we're headed for the Funeral?" I had a good laugh at her mentioning WDW even if it wasn't what we flew down there for.
Oh and I even heard a story from my mom about how she and my dad moved to Florida after spotting some WDW pictures in my cousin's Jenny's baby book (yep a trip to WDW, a cruise, & one very bad snow storm while my dad flew back to Chicago had them convinced to start looking for a place in Florida before I was born).
Holly I hope you had a wonderful time in Frederick & Baltimore, MD. We aren't too far from Frederick. I know who the Wiggles are, Skyler's never showed any interest in them.
Thank you so much Cam & Kelly. I know my Mom, Dad, & Stepmom are all excited for one Granddaughter.
I also need to see if I can't upload some pictures on my phone to photobucket that I took of the Autograph Books I made on Snapfish for MinnieJen'so boys. I love how they came out and plan to do the same for Skyler, my Niece & Nephews. I made custom covers for their notebooks, and inserted a 4x6 pictures of each character in the front pages for their character meals, & left the rest blank for each other character they met. I also made magnetic bookmarks to keep their place for the next character meal and one fornext character to sign (so they didn't have to hunt through the books). The pages were large enough for the characters to sign a little larger if they wished, but for a week lomg trip they had 200 pages in one book for all of their autographs.
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