Christmas, Memphis, and Disneyworld!

Okay, so the pics are in most recent order of event!

 

We went to Disneyworld the 10th to 15th! We stayed in the Art of Animation hotel- Cars section, which was cute! The pool was the Cozy Cone hotel setting and it had the characters all over the section-  I just took a pic of Sally and Lightning

 

 

 

Day 1, we went to Epcot!  Hallie's first ride was Figment! 

 

Aida ran the Mickey Mile on Friday, so we went to the ESPN sports area for that!

 (Will ran the Marathon on Sunday!)

 

 

 

One of my favorite pics below! How sweet!

 

 

We headed next to Animal Kingdom!

 



 Hallie didn't know what to think when watching the Jungle parade!

 

 

But chocolate Mickey Mouse ears made it better!

 



 

We went on the Safari ride!  Hallie loved seeing the animals!

 

 

We went to Hollywood Studios that evening!

One of my favorite things was a place they called Disney Jr. Dance Party!  Pluto, Goofy, Mickey, and Minnie were dancing with all these little kids!   I managed to get a pic of Minnie!

 



 

Here's a quick video of the Dance Party!

 

They played "Call Me Maybe" (one of Hallie's favorite songs! and I tried to get Hallie to

sing with me!

 

 

After day one.....

 

Day 2 was Magic Kingdom!

 



 

For the Enchanced Tales with Belle, Aida, Will and Jason got to participate in recreating a bit of the Beauty and the Beast story!

 

 

 

We ate in the Beast's castle!

 

 

 

 

We met Ariel!

 

 

 

Teacups!

 

 

About 5:00 on Day 2....

 

 

Later that evening, I got Hallie on Dumbo! She liked it more than she wanted me to know!  She also enjoyed the Jungle Cruise, which had some (fake) elephants under a waterfall. She now says "Elephant's messy!" and she tips her head back and puts her lips together to do an elephant impression!  We also got her on Pirates, so she did her first hill ride!

 

 

Day 3, went back to Epcot for the Day! After the Nemo ride, they had an aquarium type setting with a cute play area for the kids!  Here's us in Bruce's mouth!

 

 

We met Aurora!

 

 

 

Hallie seemed to recognize Snow White and kept pointing saying, "Snow White!" while we waited.

 

 

 

Pic at Sunset

 

At dinner on Day 3...

 

 

 

We had a great trip to Memphis after Christmas! We were excited to meet Leah!

 

 

Both Isaiah and Hallie loved the I-pad!

 

 

 

We went to a Children's museum since it rained!  It had a slide that Hallie liked!

 

 

At least we got some sort of picture with Elvis while we were there!

 

 

Christmas was great!  Here's a summary of photos!

 

 

Christmas Tree and Big Bed

 

 

We finally got the Christmas tree decorated when Hallie took a nap!  We have left some ornaments for her to play with, which she has.  She also loves the train set!

 

This past Monday night, Hallie had a hard time getting to sleep and wanted to be in the big bed, so we lowered it and put the rails on at 10:30 pm!  We made it out as an exciting thing that she slept in the big bed, but the past two nights, she's wanted to sleep back in her crib.....

 

 

This is the only video it will let me post!  She had Bojangles tea this morning...

 

 

 

Thanksgiving and beyond!

 

Hallie got sick before Thanksgiving, but was doing better on that day! I didn't get a picture, but a Chuck and Deda's house, we went back to Liz's room and she found this large lab dog stuffed animal Liz had.  She said "Puppy!" and wanted to carry it around!  I figured Liz would have liked that!

 

Later, we went to Grandpa and Granny's house and she sang for everyone using Paw-Paw's smart phone!  She still loves Elvis and her new favorite song seems to be "Good Luck Charm".  She also loves the Chipettes version of "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga.  I've got some videos, but they wouldn't post here, so I'll try another time!

 

 

 

They must be up to something!

 

 

Here's her today playing in her kitchen!  She loves making Jason and I tea!  She also likes putting the eggs in the microwave!  We're glad she's been more of herself this week, but Jason and I got sick with bad colds too!  

A few of my favorite things!

Thought I would note some of Hallie's favorite things!

She seems to really like the Dinosaur Train and Thomas the Train shows, though she won't watch them for very long! 

She can sing the songs pretty well too, since she seems to pick up on music really quickly!  She also knows who Bono is (from my favorite band U2) and will get into my car and say "I want Bono!  I want Bono!"

She is holding baby dolls more often now and seems to alternate between which ones she goes to bed with!  She loves for Jason to build a tower with the blocks and then knock them over!

She still loves to run in the house and we seem to do that about every night now!

We're trying to read her more books, but she still just wants to focus on the pictures! 

We call the below a laundry basket rollercoaster!