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How is poor Kevin functioning, with no food in his little belly? Not for lack of trying, though, because those pancakes you got him look . Hopefully his body clock catches up soon!
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How is poor Kevin functioning, with no food in his little belly? Not for lack of trying, though, because those pancakes you got him look . Hopefully his body clock catches up soon!
What is funny is that he had a bag of Lucky Charms we filled each morning and that was his favorite food on the trip. That and his pop tarts.... his "nacks". As long as he had nacks and ice cream - I think he thought he was doing fine.
What a great report and your pics are beautiful. Poor little Kev, sorry he doesn't enjoy rollercoasters, but you both look like you had lots of fun elsewhere..... Next time I will lend you my 4yr old DGS he loves the coasters.....
We do the same thing take the Monorail to the Poly and walk back to SoG, sometimes it is much faster and we enjoy the walk....
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MK part 2
After our restful afternoon of swimming and video games (yes this is how a 4 year old rests.... or at least how my 4.5 year old DN rests). We all got dressed for dinner and headed back to MK. We had an ADR for LTT - another character experience for Kevin - not to mention a first for my parents.
We picked up dad's ECV and Kevin's stroller and walked back to LTT. It took about 15 minutes for us to be seated - in which time - Kevin FELL ASLEEP in my mom's arms while she was sitting on the bench. Yep - he wouldn't take a nap all afternoon, but he would fall asleep as soon as we entered the park....
We were seated in the room to the left of the hostess stand all the way in the back. Our server came around and got drink orders and told us about the meal. We tried to wake Kevin up. He was not really cooperative...
After a bit - we convinced him to wake up - and then the itching started. My mom had bought him this cute little sweater vest - and the tag was annoying him.,.
So - thankfully grandpa had the McGyver knife (my dad's pocket knife) and we used the scissors in it to trim the the tags. That seemed to help some.
Kevin was completely enamored with the rolls, the butter and the thought of ice cream (am I ever going to get this child to eat protein?? I'm told this is normal and I seem to remember having these issues with his sister as well).
Pluto made an appearance - Pluto is Kevin's all time favorite character!
Then Dale came over to play with the adults (which Kevin got a major kick out of)
Guess Who??
Dale's first impression of my dad....
This is what happens when you let grandma have the camera - Joan I think I need to work on chins and cheese...
Dale then played guess who with Kevin
Minnie came up behind my dad and started to rub his head.
To which my father commented that it had been many years since someone had rubbed his head.... DAD!! TMI!!! This is a MOUSE!! Then we got into the discussion about Mr. Head Mouse and the lack of a wedding ring for the chief mousette....
You will note that Kevin's plate is completely empty except for a roll. That was an expensive roll!
Goofy came by - by which time the ice cream had arrived.
After dinner - as we were leaving LTT - we realized that Spectromagic was headed our way. The ropes were up - so we just stayed were we were (it was so crowded we couldn't move dad's ECV anyway) and watched the parade. I started to video it - when I ran out of memory on the camera and I'd left the extra (ok the extra 4 GB!) in the hotel room - note to self - always carry an extra chip on your person...
So no video or photos - neither one of my parents thought to take photos with either of their perfectly good cameras either.
Kevin really like the parade. After the parade - I thought we should head in the general direction of Tomorrowland so that after the fireworks we could use our Buzz lightyear fast passes -- which I now remember was why I was late leaving MK. I had run into TL to get the Buzz FPs for later in the evening...
We made it across the sea of humanity known as the Hub - and ended up right at the corner where the hub meets the bridge to see the fireworks. The fireworks were wonderful (still no photos....) and although they were loud - Kevin seemed to like them - unlike the first time Jolene saw the fireworks.
After the fireworks ended - we headed to Buzz and zipped through the line.... Kevin sat with me. I don't remember what my score was - I really didn't pay attention - since I was trying to teach Kevin how to play the game. Mom bought the picture - but she has not sent me a copy yet.
I did manage to take this picture of Kevin -
After this - we took a trip on the TTA and decided to head out for the evening. We were all tired. When we got back to the room - Kevin and I made an agreement. He had to lay in bed - I didn't care if he slept - but he had to stay in bed - with the light off -- it worked!!! He was asleep in like 10 minutes without argument (well without too much argument).
Great update and pictures Terri Sorry Kevin didn't eat more than a roll (and yes, that's normal )! Sounds like you had a great dinner anyway And how nice he went to sleep right away when you got back to the room
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the photo of Kevin driving. He has such a determined look on his face!! Waiting for more!!
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Sorry Kevin doesn't like coasters 
At least you're getting to see all the playgrounds in MK 
Not for lack of trying, though, because those pancakes you got him look 
. Hopefully his body clock catches up soon! 
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DAD!! TMI!!! This is a MOUSE!! Then we got into the discussion about Mr. Head Mouse and the lack of a wedding ring for the chief mousette....
)! Sounds like you had a great dinner anyway 
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