ONE MORE DAY!!!

I can't believe that our Disneyland trip is one day away! We leave early Wednesday morning; time sure has flown by. We are all really excited - I am even having trouble sleeping! Well, maybe that is because of all the little details flying through my head! Here is a picture of the kids this morning after pulling off the "three days left" chain link. If you think they look excited here, imagine what they were like tonight!



The kids have been talking and obsessing over this trip for so long, I hope it lives up to their expectations! I asked them tonight what they are most excited about.

Sadie - California Screamin and Hollywood Tower of Terror. (Uh, we'll see......)

Zack - Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, but most of all, Pirates of the Caribbean

Drew - "airport", "Dineyland" and "Mee Mouse"

Please add us to your prayers for a safe, healthy and nothing but fun vacation. See you when we get back!

Baseball Guy

Drew loves baseball! This little guy is all about hitting balls with a bat. He won't sit still for the life of him, but if you take time to play ball with him, he will do it for a really long time! He has a great stance and swing already. Mariners, here we come! Okay, maybe not, but it is definitely a passion of his so far!

Not sure if pink is your color, Drew...

Play ball!

Home run - the crowd goes wild!!

Juggling

I knew that with three kids we would spend the next 10 or so years juggling kids and activities. But I wasn't ready for it to start now. Wah! We try to not over-schedule our kids and keep activities simple and few. But I guess there just isn't a way around it. Zack has been doing karate, which is Monday and Wednesday evenings at 6pm. Sadie just started softball, which happens to be Saturdays and Wednesdays at 6pm. Sweet. We are fortunate in that I know Sadie's coach well and she has offered to take Sadie to practice. So for now, Sadie goes to Taylor's house while I take Zack to karate. Then Zack and Drew and I book it down the street to Sadie's practice, where I have just missed pretty much the whole thing. I know Sadie understands, but it makes me kind of sad. Zack's karate MAY change times here soon, which would be really great. But for now, juggle time! By the way, I failed juggling class in junior high.... :0

So I was going to take pictures of karate and softball tonight to post and I didn't even remember AT ALL. See what this is doing to me? Kidding, it isn't that bad...

See Muscles?

Wow, we have STRONG kids! Daddy taught them how to show their muscles and now they do it quite proudly. Drew was in his high chair this morning and randomly said, "Mommy...see muscles?" What would we do without daddies?

Sadie's 7 year old girl muscles!

Zack's 4 year old boy muscles!

Drew's 2 year old boy muscles!

The Monkey On His Back

As Disneyland draws closer, I am trying to think of absolutely every little detail that will make our trip easier. A little hard when we have only traveled once when we only had ONE kid!! So one of the things that is absolutely imperative in my mind is a leash. Yes, I said it, a leash!! I do not like them at all, but really, would I rather be "cool" and lose my kid? NO WAY!! So little Mr. Drew picked out his new monkey backpack "Harness Buddy" the other day at Target. He will wear it anytime he is out of the stroller, like if he wants to walk or when we are waiting in line for a ride. He tried it on the other day and loved it! We will see when someone is actually holding the other end...

The Final Countdown!

We leave for Disneyland THREE short weeks from today! WooHoo! We are all SO excited! The kids and I look regularly at disneyland.com and check out the rides and entertainment. I think it is a good way for them to see the rides and at least have some picture in their heads of what to expect. However, as the trip gets closer, I had to make the executive decision to stop looking right before bed!!! They are getting more and more riled up...yikes! At the beginning of April, we made a paper countdown chain. Sadie and Zack take turns tearing one off at the end of each day and then they can see how many days left!

The Disneyland Countdown Chain

No, I did NOT make the Mickey heads! They are courtesy of Jeni and her awesome Cricut machine!!

Karate Kid

Zack started karate in January. Sensei Guido (pronounced Gee-do, not Gwee-do!) has been doing karate for many years and is a wonderful teacher with lots of patience! Karate is perfect for Zack. He is mellow enough to sit still and listen and he watches every move Sensei does. He has a little trouble with balance, but doing karate is really helping that. It is so cute to watch Zack and know how much he loves it! Drew actually really likes it too, and goes around the house punching and kicking, saying "Ich (one in Japanese), kick, bow!" Too funny.


They do testing for Zack's age every three months so the kids can see that they are progressing and can feel good about that. Zack had his first test only about a month after he had started, but he still did great! He got his yellow stripe to wear on his white belt.

Down block front stance (Don't ask me how to say that in Japanese...)

A proud moment

Easter 2008

I know, Eater was LAST week! But since I started this blog after Easter, I thought I would throw in a picture of all three kids together.


Tony spiked up the boys' hair after I took pictures, so here is one of Drew with his big boy hair! (I know it is the same picture as to the left, but I had to put it in again!)

Doesn't he just melt your heart?