Disney info

This is a little overdue, but a few friends who are both taking families to Disney this summer were asking for tips!

http://www.ivillage.com/age-age-guide-disney-world/6-a-127793
This was one very helpful website!

I would recommend crystal palace @ magic kingdom with Pooh and friends one night for dinner, mornings are best at the parks. Plan on bringing stuff for AM oatmeal cereal and cuties worked for us! We brought our own snacks, juice boxes, and waters everyday into parks. I bought individual almond butter packets(like peanut butter) and smothered that on crackers! Gummy snacks, fresh fruits, applesauce go squeeze packets!

Get to park early, it's less crowded and less waits for rides! Use fast pass when u can! MAke it a point to look at showtimes, schedules, first thing when you get there, and keep somewhat of a schedule. The other character dining was chef mickeys, I would have loved to do that one! I would recommend doing them for dinner then catching fireworks at night at either epcot or magic kindgdom along with Electrical parade. We often would go back to hotel from3-5 to rest change, etc.
Epcot was ok.....the only fun stuff for little ones was turtle talk with crush and nemo ride. A few rides like soarin for older kids, but I personally would only spend a morning there at Epcot.Epcot has stations in each country where kids can color duffy the bear on a stick. kind of like a fan? Mexico norway and another country have little boat rides in the actual building of the country. they are ok.
catch nemo ride and turtle talk first, but get fast passes for soarin. Do fast track if you meet height requirements, its fun! then go do the other things. Epcot has a water play area, i just made it a point to bring both kids change of clothes with us everyday.

We went back to magic kingdom our last day instead of going to Hollywood studios. Animal kingdom was fun, we went to nemo musical,@animal kingdom go to animal safari first, then if you have any roller coaster riders get fast pass for mount kiliminjaro....and dont forget to catch nemo musical. i think our showing was at 1130 and it was 45min. perfect timing for smaller kids! we ate lunch then went and saw the birds show right down or in asia. 1 ride for tots but probably about 3 for middle aged kids.

In magic kingdom go to fantasyland 1st thing when u get there. Snow white is a little scary they say for little kids, as well as LILO & stitch? We didn't ride those!

Come on Tuesday!!!

Can't wait to leave for Dallas, I'm so excited to come home, be with my parents & few family members, LOTS of friends who I consider family, weddings, bachelorette parties, can't wait! My mom has gone above & beyond for us to make us comfortable while we are there!

In other news Bronson ate bananas for 7 days & did great! Yesterday we Started sweet potatoes and so far so good! His allergy doc is really impressed & we hope the blood in his stool is long gone. Im maintaining the way I'm eating because I want to continue to breastfeed, and now the food introductions will be given to him! Solids have to be givenfor 7-10days. Im going with the 7! He is really scooting around now and is very vocal saying bah, nah, or screeching! He weighs 21.9lbs and is 27 1/4 inches long! My favorite thing right now is when he says maa maa! Dreycin took Bronson for a ride in the power wheels truck for the first time today, and he loved it! Well I think they both did!

Here are a few pics, one is of D eating bok choy! Yes my kid eats bok choy, awesome right?!!! My new favorite vegan bars Pure! B on the ball getting some exercise!

St Patrick's Weekend

Our weekend trip to Tallahassee was wonderful. We went to Tom Brown park, chipotle, Costco, a st paddy's day parade, and then Earth Fare! We had fun but it was a long day! Sunday was a day for cleaning bathrooms, lots of laundry(never ending) and relaxing. B man even had his first taste of solids, bananas. Yep despite what doctors said, me changing my diet helped B and he has no blood in his stools for over 1month :) so we started baby led weaning to bananas!!! And we had also switched D's bed from crib to toddler bed.....he is loving it! And after so much fun, anticipation, excitement.....we went for our evening walk......we had just gotten done at the park and Dreycin and I were walking ahead of Derek & B in the double stroller. We were playing, skipping running circles around each other being silly, and then Dreycin ran back towards stroller and he hit his nose/eyebrow bone on the bar of the stroller. He started crying, then silence.....and as a mom you know when your baby isn't crying it hurts. And then he was really silent, I handed him to Derek his eyes were jet black& dilated, arms out in a T, stiff as a board, pale, teeth clenched, and not breathing, I freaked out. I thought for sure my kid was having a seizure, I saw Derek's face and I knew something was wrong. Derek never gets emotional. So we rushed home I called my aunt (PA) and she said to go in because of his eyes dilating, and him not acting like himself. He was clingy, rather quiet, but was able to tell us who we were. He said he saw the stars and the moon :( poor kid, I never knew my heart could go through so many emotions with children, in 1 day. We went to the Er and he was checked out, it had been almost 2 hrs since accident and they let us go home with precautions sheet for a head injury, what to be watching for just in case.
After this weekend, I'm gonna love on my babies extra hard. I didn't even go to yoga tonight, we were worn out....thank goodness I had made big batch of veggie rice last night!

Thursday

When I woke up I knew something wasn't right, the night before both Derek and I had an insanely amount of gas? Weird for me, not so much for him....anyways when I got up the next morning I was queasy and I knew right away the stomach bug had invaded my body. I couldn't eat, and when I tried two little crackers with small bites of banana.....it gave me flashbacks of my 1st 2 trimesters pregnant with Lil D, throwing up endless amounts of nothing! So I stuck with small sips of cold cold water, and went to bed as soon as d and B went down for afternoon nap. About 3pm Derekcame home, he had been home during lunch to witness the bug making me question if I was pregnant again?
He let me sleep until 5pm and then the baby needed to eat. I still felt like crap, and now had a temp of 102.2. Awesomeness, and breastfeeding while your sick is so tiresome. While I was up I managed to eat some saltines(no dairy!!!) and sip some all natural no high fructose corn syrup sprite drink.
And then Derek is like I think I may have it too. Well I'm totally bummed bc if we are both sick this is gonna suck!
He goes and lays down from 650-750pm gets up and says he feels a little better. I say ok me and the baby are going to bed goodnight. Not 35min later he sends me a message saying he just threw up everywhere downstairs. Double awesome. Well at least I know I'm not pregnant! I am in too much pain to even pretend I care. On Friday I feel a little better and think ive kicked it in 1 day but I was wrong, Friday night it came back again, this time only queasiness and fever but enough for me to feel awful. Derek went to medical that morning and they gave him some zofran(miracle drug with lil D) and sent him home to get rest.....ya right!!!!
He had 24hr duty sat-sun! Yay for tiredness & recovery :/
So fast forward we are all good now, B's bottom two teeth are coming in and if D even gets in his space he starts screaming! He is sensitive right now, poor thing :(
I've been to yoga this week 2x already, floating right around 158-159, saw 157 while I was starving myself during the sickness!!!!!! Anywho, its been really nice around here lately and we have been taking advantage of that for fear that anyday the gnats and flies will come back to rob us of our entire summer :( sad but true story!

Helpless

This is a post I have debated about writing, it is about sadness, anger, betrayal, and fear. I'm at odds with writing it because I feel like social media can be too personal, you can find out anything about anybody over the Internet now a days, and that is scary after what happened to my parents this weekend. As a social worker, and my own history of depression it becomes clear to me that sometimes I need someone to talk to. Sometimes I journal, sometimes I confide in a friend, write a blog, but this time I just became numb.
My parents and I were talking on the phone, it was around 1030pm on sunday. They were walking home from getting frozen yogurt, the next thing I knew my mom was screaming for like 5-10seconds and then the phone hung up on me. I was confused, and started yelling for Derek and then I kept stumbling telling him what had happened bc I was anxiously redialing my mom's cellphone number over and over again. No answer. Somehow I managed to tell Derek to call my dads phone. My dad answered and I said Dad, what happened are you ok? He said No, damn it we are not. We just got robbed. He said they were running to the sonic just down the road, and I was in shock. My dad said there were two mexican men, he had hit the guy who tried to attack him, and then he got hit and the robbers drove off. Meanwhile my mom was told at gunpoint by the other mexican to turn off her phone, (I didn't hear that bc she was screaming so loud). He tried to grab her purse but it was an over the shoulder and he couldn't get it off of her. I think he saw my dad was hitting the other guy and decided that this was more than they bargained for, let my mom go and she started running toward the middle of the street. She said she was so sad because she was leaving my dad behind to fend for himself. My dad now thinks that the guy with the gun hit him, bc he saw the other guy's eyes roll into the back of his head after he hit him in his left temple with the flashlight he was carrying. I didn't get all of this from them during that first conversation bc I started telling them to call the police right now. They were in shock, just trying to get away. Thinking back I am glad I hadn't called my dads phone right away bc then the robbers might have tried to steal from him too. The robbers only took my mom's iPhone. Thank god nothing more, after this happened I just kept thinking how much my parents mean to me and how hard life would be without them. When the incident occurred I thought that a car had hit them, well more my dad because I didn't hear anything coming from him on the phone. Scariest moment of my life, enough I would say for the PTSD I was diagnosed with 10yrs ago to creep back in letting me know that when trauma happens it needs to be talked about. A few "emotion" words have stuck with me since this happened. Helpless. Sad. Angry. Irritable(with kids & myself). Hurt. Shame. Worry. Fear. Anxiety. Powerlessness.
So many should have, could have, would have, have run through my head along with my mom screaming. It's on replay. When it happened my mind switched to security, i changed my moms passwords to all important accounts. If you ask me now, I have different opinions about iPhones and security.....now. I finally left the house and kids today, went to yoga where I tried to disconnect and focus on me, but no such luck. I did feel better though. I also wrote a journal entry that said basically this same stuff, but with more emotional meaning. I'm numb with sadness, right now I just want to get on the next plane to be with my parents, because lets face it life is so precious. Especially when you are far away from those you love the most.

Weekend Barf

I was exhausted, and then as if the universe knew that, D got a stomach bug. Vomiting, diarrhea, temp, but it was gone in 24hrs. He was tired the following two days, and i kept him on the BRAT diet....but was back with super ubber energy today meanwhile I caught a minor cold and had a sore sore throat :( by the way have anybody y'all ever tried pedialyte, that stuff is so nasty we couldn't even get D to eat the Popsicles?!? And by the way as a parent I have read about all the times parents have been thrown up on. It never had experienced said act until this weekend :) at least each time his daddy rushed him to the bathroom to give him a bath. There were also about 20 loads of laundry from the sickness and Disney world. No one else has gotten the stomach bug and I have the idea that it may have been the taco hell we are on our way back from Florida? For those of you wondering I ate a bean burrito plain, and chalupa with beans instead of meat :) desperate times called for me to eat out, B did fine. Still on a no blood streak even after WDW!.....back to sickness, I think Derek and I did pretty good at keeping boys away from each other. I literally sent Daddy & D upstairs while me & B stayed downstairs! It was actually nice to come back on a weekend vs coming back and jumping right back into everything. At least I had Derek home all weekend :) he actually put away a lot of laundry for me!

Day 3&4

It was such a joy taking D & B too WDW, everytime we were getting ready to leave hotel or get on a ride D would say......"And B is coming too" as if to make sure his brother was gonna be included in all the fun! Day 3 Animal Kingdom was ok, the best part were the Finding nemo musical, safari, wonders show & my lunch at yak & yeti! Lunch was a veggie, tofu and rice tofu for me and Derek got a sweet and sour tofu with white rice. It was hot that day, and we didn't do our usual go to hotel at lunch since there were more shows at animal kingdom! Dreycin did not nap that day until we got back to hotel, then when he woke up we went swimming then to get some chipotle! We called it a night after that! The last day we decided to go back to Magic Kingdom, everyday since we had been there D had talked about going back! So we skipped Going to Hollywood studios so we could ride all of his fav rides!!! We had a great morning @ fantasyland and rode a few rides we missed the first day! I actually rode two roller coasters the mt Everest one at animal kingdom and space mountain the last day. I'm hoping one of my boys will like roller coasters, since their dad doesn't!!! We finished up our afternoon with lunch at bongos Cuban cafe in downtown Disney! One of my favorite meals! That afternoon we napped, then headed back to Magic Kingdom to wrap up our 4th night with the electrical parade and wishes fireworks! The boys loved it, we also picked up a few souvenirs! B got a baby Mickey, and D got a spinning light up Mickey! We also got a photo album so we could let them look at their own Disney pics whenever!!!! We had made it the entire disney trip without an accident until that night, D was walking with his Mickey and didn't see the curb, fell and scraped his elbow. He was bleeding, crying, we went up to the room and all went to bed. The morning of checkout we went to the hotel restaurant and breakfast, Mickey waffles! I even had vegan ones chef Carlos made me! Afterward we let D wear himself out playing at the hotel park, then packed up to head home! What a wonderful time I had with my boys ;)