Mickey's House

Friday was a holiday at Ryan's work so we decided to do a day trip to Disney.  Kevin had been begging to go for weeks.  He just knows you need the car and it's a long drive.  We left our house a little after 4am and got to Disney around 7:30am.  Which gave us enough time to change the kids out of their pajamas, get the stroller out and packed and get up to the gates before they opened at 8am.  We also stopped at a little grocery store right out side the security check (in the train station) and grabbed some baguettes to add to our snack stash (way cheaper than inside the park).

We ended up inside the park and were able to ride Dumbo once just by ourselves before anyone else joined for the second turn on dumbo.  Kherington really wanted to see a princess again so I stood in line for a reservation time while Ryan rode a ride with the kids.  It worked out well.  They got to meet Jasmine this time.  I was a little shocked when it came time to take the pictures and Kevin without prompting went and made himself comfortable on Jasmine's lap.  Apparently he is no longer a shy little boy. 

Around 1pm we headed over to the adjacent park to Disneyland and started off by watching the Lilo and Stitch Live performance.  Ryan had Kevin propped up in his arms to watch and he almost immediately fell asleep, then slept in the stroller while Ryan and Kherington rode a ride.  He woke up in time to go on Slinky Dog. Then when we were watching Animagic (Kevin's favorite performance...it has Mickey and Donald), Kherington, Ryan and me all fell asleep.  Kherington slept until the parade (we woke her up for that) then we headed home.  So 8 straight hours of Disney...a pretty solid day.

Shoes

Kevin loves playing with our shoes.  He will go find us the correct shoes for whatever activity he wants to be doing...walking, church, workout, dress-up, etc.  The pictures below are from work-out time since his tennis shoes are too small :).

Kid Time

Kherington was invited to a friends (Sethy's) party and I totally blew it.  I miss read the time and was 2 hours off...for a 2 hour long party.  Oops.  On the up side, I caught it early enough that she was only about an hour late.  I would have been in huge trouble if we had missed it.  Anyways, it was a ninja themed party.  They had headband for the kids but Kherington grew really attached to this make shift one Jenny made out of her skirt and didn't want to trade it in for a nice embroidered one so Jenny (she's pretty awesome) decorated Kheringtons.  It is now a prized possession worn nearly every day.

I built a fort with the kids one day and we've kept it up so they can continue to play with it.  Their new big thing at bedtime is to do Lego's under it.  Here's what Kevin created one evening.  He's getting to be quite the builder.

Sweet Little Man

We went back to potty training last Monday and it had been going pretty well.  Kevin had 3 pees the first day, 1 the second, then was good until he pooed his undies on Sat (after throwing up so I'll give him that one).  Then he pooed it again on Monday.  I thought we were home free with the pee and would work on the poo.  Ugh, then today he peed again.  I guess it's more that he can hold his pee longer, but I still need to remember to put him on the potty every couple hours. He is pretty funny when he uses the potty.  He uses the big one and can get up and down on his own, but the funny part is that if I come walking by he says, "No, mommy go out!"  He does not want our help.

After peeing, I stuck him in the tub to wash off.  And when I pulled him out he stood there and tells me, "Mom, rock-a-bye baby" over and over.  So I scooped him and and rocked him.  We got his clothes back on and he started saying it again.  He is just so sweet.  He went right to sleep.

Another super sweet thing about Kevin that melts my heart is that if I'm starting to get frustrated, he looks me right in and eyes and in the cutest voice says, "sorry mommy."  He also says thank-you without me prompting him to which actually catches me off guard most of the time.  Such a sweet little man.