Confidence Booster...

So we went to Mobile  this past weekend to visit GG and Pops and so I could run a 10K.  Yesterday, Jordan asked me if I won my race.  I answered "No, there's a lot of people faster than me and it's not really about winning, just improving my time."  Jordan said, "Mom, you never win your races."  So true!

Proverbs 2:1-6

We talked about this verse in our Bible Study last night and this verse really speaks to me. 

"If you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find knowledge of God.  For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding."

Dead Teeth

So one of Jordan's front teeth is dead.  It's brown and dead because he injured the root of the tooth when he hit his tooth on his knee last summer jumping in the bounce house.  Well, two weeks ago at Disney world, Walker slammed his teeth into Tony's knee (he was sitting on a barstool) and cut Tony's knee open.  Apparently, the dentist today told me he drove his front tooth back up into his gum, and the root is dead.  It will be a brown tooth as well.  Because he is so young, they can do a baby root canal to save the tooth.  All for cosmetic reasons.  I decided to just wait and see if it abscesses.  If and when it does, they will have to pull the tooth.  The thing about the root canal is, it isn't a definite fix, it could still abscess.  So, in conclusion, both of my boys have dead front teeth, Walker's will eventually be brown like his brother's, and possibly they will both eventually abscess.  Nice.  Gotta love boys.

Spring Break

Spring Break is upon us!  Next week the boys are out of school and I have slated Potty Training as our #1 task.  What fun!!  We worked on it this past Tuesday since we were home all day, and though he sat there a few times, he had 3 accidents by nap time.  Today, we tried again and he has not had any accidents and he's telling me when he's ready to go!!  I'm excited.  So we'll see how he progresses or regresses, whatever the case may be!  After tomorrow, they are out of school through the following Monday, so we will actually have 11 straight days to stay home and work on it.  Hopefully I won't get too antsy to get out of the house before then!!  My baby is growing up.

Disney World Vacation

March 2, Magic Kingdom:

On Monday, Tony's aunt worked out that we would open the park.  We weren't sure what that meant, but it meant a lot!  We got a tour of the park before it opened, got to go through Mickey and Minnie's houses by ourselves, met all the characters and rode the train to the front of the park with them to open the park!  We threw pixie dust while thousands of people took our picture - it was amazing!  But COLD!  My camera was

frozen, but we got some pics on mom's.

We also had the boys faces painted and

basically did all of magic Kingdom in one

long, tiring but absolutely fun day!  The lines weren't bad at all - I think the longest line all week was for the dumbo ride - we waited about 35 minutes!

This is one of the shows outside Cinderella's castle.  We needed the break and the boys enjoyed watching it.

                 
Jungle cruise ride- a big hit for all.

Captain Jack teaching pirate skills - the boys LOVED that.  We just happen to pass by as they were doing it.

Jordan and Walker outside Donald's boat - Walker loved this!

Jordan the Tiger, Walker the Pirate.  They really got into character and were entertaining everyone as we waited to ride the Goofy Barnstormer roller coaster.  It was hilarious!

Tuesday we hung out a bit at the pool but it was still cold.  We went to Uncle Stan's house and got to get a tour of their place and saw a couple of alligators.  We went to dinner with him that night.  

Wednesday we went to Animal Kingdom.  It was really fun and the boys were so looking forward to it!  All Jordan talked about was riding the dinosaur ride for the past month and we watched it on YouTube a few times.  He was not going to be scared!!  He kept saying he was going to ride it twice!  However, after the first ride, he said "I'm never riding that ride again!"  We also got to have breakfast at the Tusker House with the characters (this is awesome and I highly recommend it!)  We had to wait even though we had reservations, but it was worth it.  The food was great and the boys LOVED meeting Mickey, Donald and Goofy again. 

Thursday we hung out again at the pool all day.  It was beautiful and the boys had so much fun.  This place we stayed was amazing, complete with it's own water park and lazy river, water falls, slides, numerous zero entry pools that were really shallow and perfect for the kids, snack bars, float rentals, putput golf, just a great place for kids!  There was even a section with sand like the beach that the kids could play in with hammocks to relax in!  The boys got spray painted tattoos on their bellies!  We really enjoyed this day of rest and water fun!  Poppy even rode down the slide! :)

The last day, we ended up doing Hollywood studios.  Tony's aunt and cousin hung out with us.  They got us in free all week, and we even got free stroller rentals!  It was amazing.  Friday, we didn't even have to pay to park!!  We spent most of the day at Hollywood studios which was great.  There weren't many people there, and the lines were very short.  The Buzz Lightyear ride was a lot of fun, the parade was great, the boys loved meeting Prince Caspian from the Chronicles of Narnia, Jordan LOVED the Indiana Jones stunt show, and Walker LOVED the Playhouse Disney Show, the adults got to ride Aerosmith's Rockin' Roller coaster, which was very fun!  The boys got their faces painted again one last time and got some nice big cookies! Then, we took the boys to downtown Disney which is a great place, there is a restaurant/store there where you can build your own dinosaur (which we did) and a place to dig for bones like at animal kingdom. There is also the Lego store which had some neat Lego statues.  All in all we had an amazing vacation - one we will never forget! :)  Thanks to Nana and Poppy for helping us so much, and for the wonderful place to stay!  Thanks to Tony's aunt and cousins for making it all so affordable! :0)