Two Fer

Zoe had an accident today at school. She tripped on something in the classroom, fell and hit a table on the way down and managed to put her lower teeth through her lip and knock out her two front teeth. Gratefully they were baby teeth that were already loose. The lacerations on her lower lip are small. The fat lip combined with the hole in the front is making it hard for her to talk, but other than that she is doing well. Curiously enough Molly also knocked out her two front teeth in an accident as well, but not with as much collateral damage. When I picked Heidi up from school I told her what happened to Zoe. Her response "That is a really bad day." Of course by the time we were home she was already trying to devise ways to tease Zoe for her missing teeth.

What were you for Halloween?

My candy hoarding monsters, dressed up as a firefighter, a cowgirl, a pink pirate and a hippie. Molly went trick or treating with her friend Breelyn, and was able to cover more area. She has a big haul. The younger kids went with the Hunsakers and had a good time. It was my turn this year to hand out candy. I usually try to dress up, but I had dressed up on Thursday night for a party in a dress from high school and to be honest I had two hot dogs for dinner and was fairly confident I wouldn't be able to breathe if I put it on.

The happiest place on earth

We waffled. We vacillated. We decided and then we stayed up way too late putting together a plan. We went to Disneyland for fall break. I am sure if you were an outsider observing the process it took to get us there you would laugh out loud. In the end we had a really great time.

We left on Wednesday afternoon and went to the Disney compound on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We ran our kids from one attraction to the next letting them stop for an occasional dip into the snacks we packed from the “outside” to save us the pain of watching our kids not eat a meal we overpaid for. Disneyland takes a strategy. We refined ours each day. When we go back we will know better. Of course we will go back because we bought the annual pass, so now we have to get our money’s worth.

When we arrived back home and were completely exhausted we wondered if we had run the kids too hard and too fast for too long. We will take that into consideration for our next trip. For now no one is whining about the prospect of going back.

Here is the photo evidence of what we did:

My kids favorite ride: the tram from the parking garage to the park. Who knew?

Our first ride, Dumbo.

The tea cups. Anyone feeling sick yet?

Another ride that goes around in circles. This one always has a painfully long line and I can never really figure out the draw for this one.

We spent a fair amount of time on King Tritons carousel as we waited for big kids to cycle through the California Screamin' line. Heidi was devastated she was not big enough to go on California Screamin'. Tanner is too scared to ride on carousel characters and always insists on sitting on the "bench."