Birthday girl!

Our determined energetic little girl is getting big! 6 years old!!

 We got Rose a balance beam for her birthday!!

Party at Amazing Adventures!

Her favourite dinner: burgers and Caesar  salad

Rose almost 6

making our own memes

Henry-isms

A few things Henry says that I don't want to forget:

The way he says "hair" and "here". He adds an "L" sound to the end--"Hairl", "here-l"

Henry tried on a dress or some sort of fancy thing and then said, "Prince charming!" about himself.

After watching "Inside Out" over and over again he clutched 2 Elsa dolls and said, "My core memories"

Random fun!

Every so often I remember about the blog, and then i realize I should make the effort to blast off a few posts.  I love having the memories, but I also love reading in my spare time, or doing 2 new courses I signed up for ("Dog emotion and Cognition", and "Palaeontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds"---yes more randomness, but this is the stuff I love). Anyway, I feel like I have forgotten to blog so many things so I'll just have to catch up on major events, birthdays, etc.  I even missed the birth of my niece Sophie!! I guess because when we got home from Florida all I thought about doing was writing about the trip.  Sigh.  Life. 

Here's the first time Henry wore gloves this entire winter.  And it was at the very end!!!

I felt sorry for Scout one day so I let her come with us on the school run, and then I took her to the dog park.

Finally took Rose to replace her bowl that I broke.

So many dresses. 

Painting eggs

 New egg painting technique with crayons.

On the road again...

Now I have to admit, it was a bit stressful this trip as our kids were getting horrible sleeps and the weather wasn't always the best for just relaxing by the pool.  However it warmed up right at the end which made things feel a lot more chilled out.  Made it a bit hard to go home, but we were also looking forward to no one sharing a room with Henry at home!!

At the airport I bugged everyone by saying things  like "next time we're here we'll be going on the disney cruise!", "There's our disney cruise bus", "the next time we are on this monorail we'll be getting our luggage and going on the cruise!!".

Everyone believes I'm nuts I think.

Universal Studios Day 2.

A basic repeat of day 1, except no Grandma Val :(

We did our favourite rides again and braved the lineup for the minion ride.  It wasn't nearly as crazy as Gringott's, but had a much longer lineup the entire day for some reason.  Henry wasn't tall enough to ride, but could sit in a stationary seat at the front, so I did that with him.  After Henry got to meet the Minion named Kevin, which was super cute.  

To anyone reading this who may contemplate Universal at some point, don't get the interactive wands unless you have a TON of time.  Basically they cost more and are supposed to activate cool things around the wizarding world.  These cool things didn't seem to work super well, and often had lineups of other people waiting to perform the magic.  Now we didn't get these interactive wands, and I'm glad we didn't because it would have been a huge waste.  The girls had and still have fun pretending to be wizards with their regular replica Hermione wands.  I suppose if you planned on spending days and days there it would be ok, but not on our schedule!

Last few (warmer!) days

Ok it does say 12 degrees, but it was early morning and it felt warmer, hence the feet in the water. 

Rose was so happy with her find of a shell in the sand park.  

Brought a few shopkins to play with in the sand.  Of course one went missing for a few tense minutes.  

Rolling down the hill and then needing showers due to itchiness, grass, and rashes

Yes that's right.  Mike even vacuums in hotel rooms.  

smoothie!

A few random days at the hotel (and some shopping!)

Sitting still it let surprisingly much warmer than only 11. 

Crawling on rows of chairs to warm up

Elsa/Anna

Super expensive American Girl store

Even after the other Elsa/Anna from Downtown Disney we had to get him this one too.  The excitement on his face when he found this at the Disney store was priceless.  Rose wanted one too.  

M and M store

Super cold outside.  Crazy swimming Daddy and kids

When in Orlando in the cold, drink red wine while wearing a Jurassic Park shirt

Watching Harry Potter with wands