God, What are YOU Thinking?

Here is a post I wrote about two weeks ago: **I decided to post it today after I read the link you can follow at the bottom!

My new title for it is: A New Perspective

HELP?!?!?!

I have no idea what I am doing....as a new parent. Not to a newborn, I imagine that to be easier, but to a 4 year old. A real, live, opinioned character who has her own thoughts, wishes, and plans! I am afraid I am failing. How do you take a child, who has for the most part been raised by someone else, and make her fit into our lives??? It's different than every other weekend, it's everyday, all day, real life parenting!

I have been around kids my whole life. I've worked in daycares for years...but for some reason this is harder!!

Are my expectations too high?? Do I challenge her more than I should??? Do I instigate problems more than avoiding them?? Do I teach her valuable lessons or am I wasting my time? Does she have enough responsibilities....or too many?? Do I push her too far or do I back down to easy??

I have no FREAKING clue!?!?!

Now read this....

I Don't Want to Raise a Good Child

Prima Ballerina....or something like that!!

This week was visitor's week at ballet and Savanna was very excited!! She may have been slightly under the weather since she had her booster shots yesterday...which she has constantly reminded us, were no fun!!

Anyways...here are a few shots. You never can tell how these little ones will do! One minute she's on and the next minute I think she has forgotten what first position even is!!




Here is Savanna and her cousin Isabella


GRACE



We were still proud...as any parents would be! And in case I forgot to mention...these girls are all just about one year ahead of Savanna in age!

Our Last Disney Day!!

Our fourth morning started off with a character breakfast at Chef Mickey's!! We chose to do this breakfast to get to see some other characters...besides the princesses!!

This was a great time...the food was great and things just moved along easily!!

First we had to wait in a short line....I started to get frustrated because we had a reservation...but we didn't wait long!





Then we had a family picture! The other reservations included a picture, but not this one...we bought it anyways!



Then came the characters....
Donald

Mickey

Minnie


Pluto

Goofy


After breakfast we headed back to the Magic Kindgom...to find the ONE AND ONLY LOST PRINCESS!!!




Daddy got his Mickey Ears (ice cream)!



AND THEN.....We found her....(about 2 hour wait)...RAPUNZEL!!! It was awesome and Savanna was amazed!!!




Seeing Rapunzel was the only thing we did this day at the Magic Kingdom.


We had not originally planned to go to the Animal Kingdom but after hearing so many wonderful things about The Festival of the Lion King...we decided to go!! A PERFECT decision...it was awesome!

Savanna met Pocahontas..


We had relaxing lunch..


Watched the Lion King..


We also rode one more ride there....Dinosaur (Savanna's second least favorite ride)!!

We really enjoyed our trip...but it was a lot of work!! Four park days was really the max for us...it starts to get old waking everyday!! When we took it slow and just went to the parks for a few things...we had a much better day!

AND..don't think we didn't order the professional CD of photos....I'll post those when I get them!

Don't think for one minute....

We left Disney without seeing the NEWEST PRINCESS.....Last Day post coming soon!

Disney Day 3

Day 3- Hollywood Studios...I have to say that I think this was one of the more relaxing days we had!! No special reservations....just go to the park and do what we want!!

I have the fewest pictures from this day...I guess because there were no princess encounters!!

However...can you guess from these faces which ride we all did?!?!?



That's it...Tower of Terror! I have been to Hollywood before but I was too scared to try this. So what in the world would make me do it with my family..no clue!! We all went and YES..we were terrified!

We saw the live performance of Beauty and the Beast....she loved it (me too)!



Daddy did Star Tours....4 times!


We did it twice and then moved on the girly things...The Little Mermaid and Honey I Shrunk the Kids Playground!!







I LOVED this day!! It was easy!

Disney Day 2

On our second day at Disney we attended a Princess Breakfast in Norway!!! Well...you know, just around the lake at Epcot!!




We started early at Akershus Banquet Hall!! I have to say that I think this was even better than Cinderella's Castle!! Every family came in and sat down....cold breakfast was a buffett and then warm breakfast was brought right to your table!!





P.S. The dining adventures we did(3), I had reserved 6 months prior. I'm not sure what would be the absolute deadline to wait...but they were fantastic!! We also did the Disney Dining Plan...so all of our meals were included (well...prepaid)!!

So first Savanna got to meet Belle and have her picture made and then the other princesses followed! They each stop at your table and it is AWESOME!! This breakfast was my favorite because they did a Princess Procession. All of the children met a princess near them and then they paraded around the room. Savanna LOVED it!! They did two in fact!


Belle....one favorite this trip!


Sleeping Beauty!

Princess Procession


Snow White!!

Cinderella!


Ariel...a favorite this trip!!





Later that day we stayed at Epcot for 3 more rides. Test Track, Soarin', and Spaceship Earth!! We left around 2:00pm for a little nap!!!



Everyone has to have Mickey Ears (Me and Savanna...daddy was on Mission Space



)...and be silly!!


After we got up, we went back to the Magic Kingdom around 6:00pm for a few more rides!! We did not bring a backpack or a camera (wow...it was so nice not to carry anything). We ended up getting to walk on just about everything we wanted...Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunter Mansion, Buzz Lightyear!! This night was by far the most relaxing!!

More views from our room!!