Disney Again

I've seriously failed in the blogging realm. Two posts in January is just pitiful. With three birthdays in this month I should do a bit better. Life just keeps rolling along, leaving little time for informing our adoring public about our captivating lives.

My mind has stayed occupied with things like fractions, long division and teaching reading. By the way, teaching a child to read is probably the single most rewarding thing about homeschooling--not that you have to home school to teach a child to read. It's just that with home schooling there is no other alternative. Sinatra is going from two letter blends to three letter words right now. So much fun to see him get it.

Well, here is the meat of my post: more Disney pictures.


You might think that nothing is wrong with this picture.



Or this one.



But take a look at this one and you'll see that my crazy kids were swimming in 50 degree weather. Disney keeps their pools exceptionally warm during January. They played for nearly three hours.



Here is Sinatra on his first roller coaster--The Barnstormer, in ToonTown!


Gem and G-Pa with Tom Sawyer's river boat behind them.



Here is another one of Gem in Canada.



And one final group shot of us shivering on Main Street at MGM. We caught the final night of the light show.



Oh yeah...This is my Dad (with Jon). It was his birthday on Groundhog Day. Happy Birthday, Dad! I thought this picture was a good one for blackmail, but maybe it's just a nice "celebrating" type of photo. He and Jon were the honorary limbo pole holders at O'Hana (Polynesian Restaurant). "Aloha, Cousin!"

Here are some Disney pictures in no particular order.

My mom and Sinatra. This is Sinatra's very favorite thing at Disney. It even trumps the monorail--that's sayin' a lot if you know anything about Sinatra.



Our accommodations.



This totem pole in "Canada" has a familiar face, Eh?



And Jon and I squeezed in a trip to China by way of Florida.



And of course, the castle.



Here is Sugar and Jon. Notice how bundled up she is. That was our existence for 2 1/2 of the 4 days in the park.



Here she is at our Polynesian dinner.



And here is Jon sporting his duds for the same dinner. He and my dad were singled out for a special honor--holding the limbo bar. First, of course, they had to lead a parade of kids around the restaurant while wearing this beautiful skirt and shaking a maraca.


Us in front of the "golf ball" (Spaceship Earth).



At the back of the train in Magic Kingdom.



That's it for now. I know that I will eventually post more. Just had to get some done tonight.

Okay, I lied. Here are two more--just for Jon's mom. We spent the week of Christmas at their home with Jon's parents and his brother's family.