Everyday.

Everyday, the kids “play” Disney World. Everyday, they shout out, “Mama! Mama! I found a hidden Mickey!” Yesterday, Evan found one on his bedspread…which is a quilt…a plain blue, non-Disney quilt with white circle stitching. Of course, it doesn’t help that we got new iphones (was going to post on that alone but thought it was just…wrong), and Mark has a Disney app that tells you how long the current wait times are. I confess that we have been known to sit at the dinner table and have contests with who can guess the correct wait time. I usually win (it helps that Drew guesses completely odd numbers like 150,000 minutes). With Lydia’s birthday on Thursday, I took the older kids shopping Saturday to buy her some gifts just from them. They insisted on the Disney Store, of course.

I didn’t pull my camera out this Sunday for any snapshots. But, I did find these three pieces all created this Sunday. They definitely serve as snapshots in and of themselves of how my children are currently spending their free time.

I asked Evan, “When are you guys going to stop talking about Disney World everyday?” He answered, “Never! I’m going to talk about it until I die and then when I go to heaven, I’ll talk about it with God.” My first thought was that God wasn’t going to be so interested in that conversation. But, then I thought about Evan and how much joy it must bring to His maker when he simply enjoys the world around him. That might be an interesting conversation.

Just when we got a good chuckle over this photo and Drew’s “it’s-been-a-long-first-day-in-Disney-World” face….

We had this picture taken. And, there are no excuses of a long day. It was for a breakfast. I admit that the boys did not want to pose with a princess…again. I confess that I threatened not letting them go on rides if they didn’t.

Don’t forget to notice that Drew was still sporting his rocker eyes….4 days later.

I think I should submit it to Awkward Family Photos.

When do you stop going into your kids’ schools for parties? I’m thinking I have 4 more years of going to 3 school parties in one day.

I can make it.

That’s what I had for lunch yesterday. Here…

We were in Disney World on her actual birthday taking pirate oaths, going on rides, and eating dinner at Cinderella’s Royal Table (poor baby). And, with the crazy number of snow days before her birthday, our lunch date was put off until now.

I’m so glad we didn’t skip it. Ashlyn didn’t stop smiling for the 30-minute lunch break. And, I got to hear some very important information from her buddies — one girl’s older brother really likes yogurt, one girl watched a rated-R movie and wasn’t scared at all, one boy has a very loose tooth and had already heard from Ashlyn that I thought loose teeth were gross (he proceeded to wiggle it around just to test that fact–I didn’t let him down and winced). Can’t really recall much of the other things I learned heard since about 4 kids were telling me things at any one given time.

I do recall being informed that the kids who have snack money like to have strawberry shortcake races. You better believe I jumped at that opportunity to join the crowd. Ashlyn chaperoned me up to the snack line where I purchased a Good Humor Strawberry Shortcake for $.85. I proceeded to be destroyed by Rachel, shown in the back of this picture (courtesy of Ashlyn’s photography skills) with her bar.

I was reminded why I hadn’t had one of these in perhaps 20 years. 230 calories of sickening sweet pink stuff, white stuff, and some sort of pseudo-crunchy stuff. Not sure what any of it was, and it certainly didn’t help my issue with tight jeans after Disney. But, it was worth it to have several first graders with their fists in the air, cheering, “Go, Mrs. Raudenbush! Go Mrs. Raudenbush!”

Next year, I’m taking Rachel down.