Day Three - Saoirse's Birthday and Celebrating the other three as well.

We headed back to the Magic Kingdom today and got "Birthday" buttons for each of the kids. The wonderful thing about these buttons are that every "Cast Member" (WDW employee) told the kids "Happy Birthday!" when they saw the buttons.



(by the way we stoped to get a new camera that will hopefully last longer than the last one - by a lot)



















Saoirse's birthday dinner was at a family style resturant in Liberty Square. We are seriously considering having Thanksgiving dinner there now. Anyone want to join us?

Day Two

Animal Kingdom
Jael and Tekla went on their first real roller coster - Expedition Everest. Tekla looked a little green at the end and didn't want to go again. Jael didn't like the spooky Yetti and thought it might not have been so bad it it wern't for that. None of the girls liked the Bugs Life 3-D show. It was a little too real. By 3pm everyone was wiped out and we called it a day.
(By the way, no pictures today. They were lost when the camera fried the card.)

Day one, Part two

Dinner ended up being late instead of early, so we didn't get back to the park till late. We had time for a few rides before the fireworks started.













The girls had been begging to go to the Haunted Mansion, so we relented and went after the fireworks. None of them wanted to go back a second time for some reason.

We made it back to he car around 11:30 and all children were asleep by the time we were on the road back to apartment. Luckily the two oldest woke enough to walk up the stairs. I'm not sure how Mama or Daddy would have been able to carry them if they hadn't. The plan was to sleep in the next morning. Was the plan.

Birthday Trip - Day one part one

In celebration of all 4 kids' birthdays, we decided to get tickets to Disney World in lieu of a party. None of the kids seemed to complain about the lack of party, and seemed fine that a family vacation would be suffice. We didn't tell them where we were going, just when and the trip would end with my dear cousin's wedding. That was exciting enough.

There wasn't as much squealing as we thought, and we were amazed that it didn't occur to them where we were going until we actually arrived. After a full morning (actually till about 1pm) we headed back to the hotel. (We found a great deal on a 3 bedroom place with a full kitchen for under $70/night.) We ate a late lunch and then everyone laid down for a rest. At least 4 are snoreing, and Jael is looking at books while I type. We will be having an early dinner and then head back for a late night of more fun!

Birthday Outfits '11

Cai's "Cook-Cook" shirt
Jael's Dress
Tekla's Dress

Saoirse's dress

Daddy also got a new (not birthday) shirt that is awaiting buttons. I'll try to post a pic soon if he'll let me take one.

WooHoo! He's Two!

The POOP exhibit at the zoo

It's all about poo. The kids love it, but there isn't much more I can say about that.





Now, for the rest of the zoo..we got a great set of passes that are good through May. They included unlimited Monorail rides, 1 Rhino Encounter (they called the rhino over and we got to brush, pet, and feed him through some HUGE metal stanchions), 1 giraffe feeding (we got a bowl of salad for the giraffe to eat though the girls wern't sure about that tounge comeing at them), and few other benefits that just didn't matter to us.