Princesses On Ice Adventure

We have been looking forward to this night for 4 months (although we didn't tell Leilani about it until 3 days before:)

It was a date with just Leilani and mom and dad. Pretty special. TJ got to spend a night with Grampa Fuzzy.  Thank you!

We started out the only way a date with a three year old should start. McDonald's.

We just figured we would find one off the freeway on the way there.

Perfect. There was one a few minutes down.

We get off and the freeway is backup up clear to the top of the exit. Yup...Perfect.

When we finally pull in, it doesn't have a play place. What 3 year old wants to go to a McDonald's without a playground? Not mine! That's ok we can find another one.  There's like what? 500 from here to Salt Lake?

We stop at one in Bountiful and it actually has a pretty cool play place, but now we're short on time so we let Leilani play before we eat.     

She finds some cute friends and doesn't want to stop playing (exactly why we never let her play first:) I can see she's starting a familiar dance so I ask her to come with me to the bathroom.

In true Leilani style she runs the other way back into the jungle gym.  Not two minutes later I hear her crying from the top.

Yup, she peed her pants.

Just my luck I did not bring any extra clothes.  So cursing under my breath I head over to the store to buy underwear and pants.  I had to take a moment to recapture why I thought this was going to be a fun night but  Targhee, always my greatest positive supporter, got my head back on straight.

Now we were really pushing on time but we made it just before the opening number! Frew!     

We went last year and watched all the adorable little girls dressed up as princesses wondering why we didn't think of that.  We were sure to bring something this time!

Tiana

Please excuse my blurry pictures.

They wouldn't hold still!!

Mickey Mouse and the gang:)

Cinderella

I've kept all three of these pictures not because I think we look so great three times (which is why we attempted three pictures in the first place:), but because I'm loving the photobomb girl behind us!  

haha!

And Leilani really was excited to be there, she's just not as excited about pictures as I am:)

Rapunzel

She chose Pascal as her souvenir and has been carrying him around ever since.

This is what she looked like the entire show.

Our popcorn "tradition."

She remembered that Grandma and Grandpa got some last year and assumed that meant we would be getting some again:)  We didn't disappoint.

Finally ALL the princesses arrived:)

Belle

Snow White

Aurora

Ariel

Mulan

Jasmine

And everyone's current favorite, Rapunzel. Personally though, I think Eugene wins it for me, even more than Rapunzel (and I think Leilani's right there with me. She's often having in depth discussions with him:)  

So even though the night started out a little rough, it turned out perfect and lots of fun to dote on our daughter.  She deserves it.  She's a great big sister:)

The Letter O

The letter O says "awe" like

Octopus and Octagon

You are so smart, you even counted all the octopus's legs and the sides of the octagon.

They both have 8.

You learned the name of a new animal, an Ox (you're right, it does look like a cow)

and fluttered your wings like an Owl. 

And you already knew exactly what to do with the Olives.

We liked the letter O.

The Letter J

Today's letter is brought to you by the "Jar of J"

Since J stands for Jar, we found things around the house we could put inside our Jar.

First were Jacks.

You did a good job of counting them one by one into the jar.

Next were some Jellybeans. Yum!

After that, we were thirsty and needed some Juice.

We took a walk outside to visit our Jack-o-lantern we had just carved for Halloween.

But he didn't fit in our Jar.

And finally we found a Jeep just small enough to put in the Jar.

You were also dressed and roaring like a Jaguar.

The Letter H

H is for Horse

Helicopter (which conveniently flew by while we were looking at the horse)

Happy (because "if you're Happy and you know it clap your hands!" and because "When we're helping we're happy and we sing as we go!")

Head (because "Head, shoulders, knees and toes")

and Hammer (because you were hammering to the beat as we sang our songs)

The Letter D

D...by the Door with your Dog

(you love pretending to be a dog, and a cat, and a zebra, and a...)

Duck (our neighbors have ducks that we say Hi to when we get the mail)

and Daddy!!

(Your playmate, your hero, your best friend)

The Letter N

N stands for No No No (while shaking your head and finger at me:)

Nap (you had me draw you in bed with your Bears, which you will not go to sleep without)

Night (when the Sun goes to bed)

and Nest (we found 2 this summer in our trees)

The Letter G

The letter G is for

Green Grapes are Great!

Garage, (you particularly like pushing the button to open and close the door)

Garbage- Gross!!

Grass

and Games, (you love to play games with Mom and Dad, your favorites right now are Candyland, Cooties, and Ants in the Pants)

The Letter I

The letter I says the short sound i as in... 

Igloo and Indian and 

ICKY!

Mom made your sandwich into an I too.

The Letter L

L is for the 

Lovely Luscious Lovable Leilani!

(You knew that one before we even got started:)

but L is also for

Leaf

Lady bug

Lamp (Aladdin's lamp so it had to have a genie)

and the other kind of Lamp with a Light

and

LOVE

HAFB

Today I needed to get out of the house so I asked Leilani if she wanted to go see some airplanes.  She was quite enthusiastic about it so she must have needed to get out of the house too:)

Pointing to each and every airplane.

The usual from TJ.  I'll go where you want me to go dear mother.

"See that crazy girl over there?  Ya, that's my sister."

"Look it's just my size"

They don't let you walk in to any of the planes anymore and it was killing her. But she was very obedient and stayed on this side of the fence.  She also went potty in the restrooms.  Such a big girl:)

This was her favorite.  She called it Daddy Shark which means she was the baby shark.  She is having a conversation with it in this picture.