Animal Kingdom

We visited Animal Kingdom. We got to ride the Safari, do the animal walk, and meet some characters.

We got to meet some Christmas Characters:


And the pooh ones:



Hayden loved the safari ride. We saw baby giraffes and baby elephants and he just kept screaming "baby giraffe" (or elephant). He loves pointing out any birds or ducks too. I guess we will have to make a trip to the zoo soon.

Remember to scroll down to previous posts to see other vacation pics.

Misc Pics:

Disney's Hollywood Studios

Our next stop was Hollywood Studios. We immediately went to meet Buzz and Woody. The line wasn't too long but it took FOREVER. Hayden had a hard time in line but eventually got to meet his favorites. We didn't get to ride the toy story ride. the line was 2 hours! We tried to get a fast pass but they were all gone for the day except for at closing time! Crazy!


So we met Buzz and Woody...

Cars...


and Monsters Inc characters (another one of his favorites)


One of his favorite things from the entire vacation was watching the jedi training academy. When Darth Vader came out he went crazy. He was screaming "mommy its darth vader! My darth Vader!" When he is older I will sign him up for this little show. It is pretty cool, the kids learn light saber moves and then darth vader comes out to fight them.


We also got our official star wars picture. Mike and I got one on our first trip together. Last year we got a family one. This year we just got one with Hayden.



It was a fun day at Hollywood Studios. That night we went to see the Ice exhibit at the Gaylord. Pictures of that to follow...

Here are the rest of our pics: (see the previous post for Magic Kingdom pics)







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Chef Mickey's and Magic Kingdom

Our first day we went to breakfast at Chef Mickey's. We were lucky to get in because all character meals were booked since it was free dining week.
Hayden was so excited he really didn't each much. He was screaming when Donald came near our table b/c he was excited. But once they got close he needed me to be with him. He still enjoyed the characters... He screamed all of their names when they were in his view, but wanted to be held to see them. Breakfast was fun and yummy.



Then we headed to magic kingdom. We got to do everything we wanted to with little wait time. Hayden enjoyed driving the cars, riding toy story, the merry go round and the train.


He loved the dance party parade and was so excited to see Woody and Jessie right in front of us. That ended when woody came to get him to dance. That scared him. He wanted to and was sad when he left but just couldn't do it. It was funny.


We got to meet some characters...


He enjoyed our mandatory ice cream sandwich from the bakery...


That night we saw them light the castle and watched the electrical parade which Hayden enjoyed, despite rude pushy people.


Here are the rest of the pics:

Christmas Vacation

We have been having a good time down here in Florida. I will post pictures soon. Hopefully we will be able to get home, there is some nasty weather headed to pittsburgh.

Our plane ride went well. Hayden was so excited to ride the plane see his Matt. He fell asleep which was a bonus. but the pilot kept coming on and talking just to hear himself talk, and it was loud. so it was a short nap.

We got to go to all 4 parks (for free!) I love visiting the parks at christmas time. Hayden was pretty good at the parks (minus one LONG line). The weather has been nice. We went to see the ICE exhibit at the Gaylord. did some shopping, went to dinner, etc. Hayden has even liked Quinn's dogs which he doesn't like any dogs. So it has been nice.

I have literally spent 24 hours a day with Hayden this trip (we have to sleep in the same bed here). i have had to carry him a lot b/c he doesn't like to stay in the stroller and he won't let anyone else do it. So I am going to need a vacation from this trip! But it has been nice to do something fun before the baby comes.

Some funny things Hayden has done this trip:

He can't say quinn so she is called "dumb" by Hayden. Not sure how you get dumb out of quinn but it is definitely what he is calling her.

He has been running to go "pee" on the potty...only to let out big farts and laugh at the noise they make.

He showed quinn how he puts his play drill down his pants. Nice.

He liked that Matt puts money in the tolls (which are everywhere here) so he always says Matt's money.

I have a ton of pictures to post but I am waiting for the disney photo pass to load them up. It was hard not to have my good camera this trip. so we bought the disney picture pass and got some good ones.

A Big Reward

Hayden has slept the whole night (and slept past 7 am) for 3 straight nights. Then he pooped on the potty. So we rewarded him with taking him to the Village to ride the Christmas train. He loved it!

We went to my soccer banquet. I wasn't thrilled with taking Hayden to this but he was perfect. We were really lucky. He was even good when I went up to give my speech.







And here are just some random cute pictures of Hayden wearing my winter hat.




This picture reminds me of when I was little for some reason.

We will be in Florida and Disney so I will have lots of pictures to post soon. I also have a picture with Santa and the three cousins Christmas costume pictures. If I can get those tonight I will...

I knew he was being too quiet!

Hayden dumped all of the baby powder on the floor in his room the other day. He WAS playing so nicely...

So we made him clean it up with the shop vac. Not much of a punishment since he loves to tools and loves vaccuming.