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Sorry about my picture size guys!! Completely forgot to resize them! The stroller thing hasn't worked for us in awhile. He doesn't really want to sit in it, although the CitiMini seemed more agreeable to him than our Bob at home, and I end up trying to find a place to put it. I took him to the zoo on Saturday morning and we were the only family without, or so it seemed. He's got tons of energy and will ask to be carried but I usually explain that if have enough energy to run around the zoo/playground/climbing gym/water fountains then you can also walk. He likes being on Jake's shoulders and actually grabs his ears to make him turn. Its terrible and funny at the same time. I can't wait until next year when we'll be out of diapers (please, let us be out of diapers) and he can carry a little fanny pack with snacks and a camera.
We basically repeated this day on Thursday (Mon was MGM, Tue/Thur MK) adding Buzz, the Peoplemover and Astro Orbiter. Peoplemover wins. He's still talking about it, how the floor moves with the train and the doors open and close and there's a dark room, why a dark room mommy? Jake does this thing with him and automatic doors, where he licks his finger and points, calling it magic when it opens. Adam does it too, so the two of them were 'magically' opening the door on our car each trip. Who knows why they like what they like. His love for the cars was pretty much over as he figured out that you couldn't actually pass anyone. He told me it was bumpy and not real driving.
Well.
The top top top thing though, was the pool and the slide. Please note that my kid can't swim a lick and hates to get his face and head wet. One of us had to walk him to hte top of the slide and the other had to defy the lifeguard and wait at the bottom. Dozens of trips. He told other kids to walk, wait their turn, wait for the green light, and smiled and yelled all the way down. Over and over and over. The first thing he asked after we got home was if we could go back to the hotel to swim.
The zero entry was great for him too, sometimes he would play there, telling us to 'get stuck' further out and then walking out to neck deep on him, and pulling us as we floated/crabwalked into shallower water. That was over and over too. He was in the pool so much that we only did bath once, the first night. And don't tell, but I didn't put a swimming diaper on him either. The kid has never actually peed, that I can tell, in his swimmy and his ample (like hours) warning of needing to poop give me plenty of time to get him away from the water.
The lifeguards were really very nice and understanding about the parents catching kids and basically remembered whose kid was whose and would tell you when your's was coming so that we wouldn't crowd the slide.
We also had some success with teaching him to use his arms and legs to try to swim. He didn't actually swim, but he finally got the motions down. What worked? Use your arm like a crane and scoop the water. So maybe swimming lessons are in our future (we were religious about swimming and when he was a year old he could go under water etc, then at 18 months we just stopped for awhile, I don't know why, busy I guess and its like we never did anything in the pool at all now).
More Adam to come (spoiler: he pretty much hates Stitch now)!
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I've had a bit of catching up to do. Sounds like MK and the pool were a hit with Adam. I also seems like you made a great decision to just follow what he wanted to do.
I'm sorry. I'm late. I've been busy and finished up some short term work and broke my foot and painted some rooms and you know, nothing that makes a good excuse. Where was I? Stitch....
Ohana. It is what it is; food you can get at nearly any diner in American, albeit in larger quanities with some snazzy juice. We go here because I prefer the non-buffet with the wee man and I like kid parade and the reletive low volume compared to Chef Mickey's. If I have to eat powdered eggs, by God, someone is going to bring them to me! We've had good luck twice with this meal and Adam, being seating with his back to a post or the wall so nothing can sneak up on him.
That is, until Stitch.
Adam was happy happy happy. Rubbing noses with Pluto, eating eggs, drinking bucket of juice.
Playing his "shaker" with Stitch (sorry its so blurry, but he was laughing really hard in this one):
and then...Stitch, as a joke, threw the maracka over his shoulder and Adam thought he wasn't going to get it back. Mickey came to see what the fuss was, put Stitch in the corner and this is what we were left with:
So that was awesome.
That was one of the things that didn't go so well. He took a long time to recover from that. The same was true for the light show on the Castle--he saw the bricks projected and then falling down (Wreck it Ralph sequence), freaked out that the Castle was broken and still, now, at the end of JULY, asks me if the Castle is okay. Barnstormer, another bust. He asked to go on twice and wailed and wailed each time. We thought Indy Cars were a hit, the first 7 times in a row. Then he figured out he couldn't pass people and said "Mama, I'm not driving this car!"
I've got some foodie posts coming up, we went to Jiko for a wine tasting, Jiko for dinner (2x) and California Grill too. And at least once, there was enough wine that I'm uncertain about the quality of my meal...
Glad you're back. I was following along, but had not commented, yet. Sorry about your foot. Ouch! Love hearing about Adam's reactions about everything.
Glad you are back - BUT man o' man!!! Broke your foot?!? OUCH!!! Hope you are healing well.
I feel awful for poor Adam with the Stitch incident! Poor kiddo! But I secretly have to laugh though - especially with Mickey putting Stitch in a time out.
Can't wait to hear all about your meals!
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So funny that Adam figured out the cars weren't "real." And, I think many kids would be perfectly happy vacationing anywhere, as long as there was a pool. Our youngest was 6 on her first trip to WDW, and she cried every day when we went to a park instead of staying at the hotel to swim.
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Poor kiddo! But I secretly have to laugh though - especially with Mickey putting Stitch in a time out.
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