Katie's first Disneyland trip

On Sunday, Matt and I took Katie to Disneyland for her first trip. It was interesting. First of all, it was raining when we were about half way there. It continued to rain until we got into the park and then it finally cleared up and was not raining, but everything was wet.



There were 4 rides that I wanted to take her on: Dumbo, Small World, Tea Cups and Alice in Wonderland. We went on none of them. Instead, we took her to see a hippo get shot on the jungle cruise and to see a twisted version of Pinocchio-that ride is whacked by the way! Poor Katie had the look of "why did you bring me here????" on the ride and finally started crying about half way through.



We then headed to Toon Town and went into Mickey's house, Minnie's house and Goofy's house. The kids there were very pushy and pretty much made Matt and I carry Katie and she was not happy about that. She did get to meet Mickey, Goofy, Minnie and Pluto. Of all the mentioned, she LOVED Pluto the most. She had exactly 3.4 seconds to pose for a picture with him before the other park partons were pushing us out of the way to get their kids up there.







The picture below is Katie after she was kicked out of the way trying to say hi to Pluto.



At this time, Katie was ready for a nap-that was not going to happen. She wanted to run around and a wet, tourist infested amusement park was not the place. Matt and I tried to go to DownTown Disney for some late lunch/early dinner (hitting places at an off time (3pm) tends to work a little better for the little ones. Katie refused to sit in (or even get into) her stroller and we were stuck pushing it and chasing her. She refused to be held and wanted to only go in the opposite direction we were trying to get her to go into. We fed her and changed her diaper and found that she was pretty cold, her feet were frozen and her legs were 1 degree warmer. I think she must have gotten her shoes and pants a little damp.

Matt and I finally decided to try to go back into the park and see if we could get on any more rides. The shortest line was about 20 minutes-which Katie was not going to wait for. I tried Dumbo one more time. Nope, she made it to about 3 minutes total in line before she was having a melt down. Small World was just redone, so it was about an hour and a half wait-which we did not even try. Alice and the Tea Cups were still "Closed due to incliment weather." The rain stopped about 2 hours before, so who knew when they were going to open again. We decided to leave.

We got to the tram and Katie finally knocked out. Hard. She did not wake up until we were almost home and then she finally got up and it was pretty much an hour and a half before her bed time and she was not going to go to sleep any time soon. Ugh! All in all, it was an interesting time, but Katie just did not have fun. The most fun she had was climbing the planters at the front of the park. up. down. up. down. about 40 times. Well, I guess if it was the highlight of her day-whatever!

So, we are going to do what any person in their right minds would do after having such an adventerous time. We are going to take her to California's Adventure Park in two weeks. haa haa. hopefully this time will be a little more fun for her.

Last week (on Monday) Katie had her 15 month appointment and it went very well. She is 24lbs 4ozs and is 32" tall. 90th percentile for height and 75th percentile for weight....she is slowly moving into the average weight for her age. She is talking so much and is my little motor mouth. She talks all the time, when she is going to sleep, playing, in the car, eating-I have never seen anything like it. On and on and on her mouth keeps going. Just like her daddy! She is starting to interact a little more with the other children at the park and is not eating the sand like she was....now it is the flowers and plants. She also loves to pick the flowers and smell them-I mean really smell them.

This weekend, we took her to the beach and she LOVED it. She kept trying to get deeper and deeper into the water. Matt and I took turns holding her while she got her feet wet.



We are planning (weather permitting) to go to Disneyland on Saturday. It is my sisters birthday and that was her request, so we were happy to go with her. My mom and dad are also going to go, so it will be really nice to have some help. I found tickets for $61 at my dads work, so more than likely we will get those ones. I hope it is not too wet or crowded. I can't wait to see the look on her face.

Matt is working so much lately. He has a huge project at work that is taking a lot of his time and I can't wait for him to be finished, but it is nice to have a little extra money to help with the bills.