Ready for Disney...

We leave in 4 days for Orlando (Saturday Feb. 4).  I am over-the-top excited!! It can't come fast enough! I think I am more excited this year as I know what to expect and really look forward to the hotel, and of course the activities.  Paige is ultra excited too as she remembers the vacation from last year clearly.  I keep reminding her that we won't be there right away, and in fact have to wake up really really early (4:00am ish) to go to the airport.  Also, I am reminding her that we aren't going to rides right away.  Probably not even until the Monday. 

I remember last year we kept telling her that it would be really warm there, and when we arrived it was pretty cool out.  Not the extreme sort of temperature change I was hoping for.  This year, it looks more promising with a temperature in the high 20's.  Rose will hopefully be stunned....although she'll probably be too tired to think straight. 

I have basically finished all the packing I can do. We have all these suitcases plus Paige's small princess one for the toys. 

We could drop the small black one in front (it is the smaller than the blue and red, although it looks larger in the picture), but I would prefer to bring it in case we bring anything home, and I'm sure we will.  It stresses me out squishing things in, even if there is room for them.  I prefer to have lots of extra room.
I figured it would be better to pack most things and just wear other clothes this week than have to pack at the last minute.  Besides, its going to be warmer than here and we don't really need most of the clothes anyway.

We only have passports, toiletries, diaper related items, Rose's noise machine, the toys, and Rose's snacks to pack at the last minute really. 

Every day Paige has been sticking a sticker on this countdown chart.  Notice I screwed up and had to add a square at the end.  I put numbers on the squares in the corner countind down to try to help Paige learn larger numbers.  I should have wrote them larger because I don't think Paige could read them even if she wanted to.

Since we'll be gone for Valentine's day, Paige wrote up all the Valentine's for her class and we dropped them off at the school today.  On Thursday we'll be picking up her indoor shoes to bring on the trip as she doesn't have any running shoes and I felt it didn't make sense to buy more when a perfectly good pair will just be sitting at school while she's gone. 

So I feel pretty prepared to leave, although I'm sure I'll have a bad sleep the night before we go worrying about the last minute preparations.  Luckily, as it's so early that we have to leave, we'll just put everything downstairs the night before we go, except for one suitcase, and chuck the last minute things into it.  No breakfasts, and probably not even getting the girls dressed. 

So, unless anything blogworthy happens before Saturday, I'll next be blogging on the road of our adventures in Disneyworld!