Camp Pone: February: Birthdays, Showers, Photos and Florida!

Florida, here we come!!!
February 17 (Babies' actual 1 year birthday!)
5am – alarm goes off on my phone. Hit snooze
5:05am – hit snooze
5:15 – drop phone behind bed.
6am – knock on door – mom is here to pick up girls and head to airport. Oops…go get girls up.
6:45 – after mad dash to dress self and change babies and grab last minute items, in minivan headed to airport.
8am – depart MPS
Noon – Arrive MCO. Feliks, did NOT arrive at MCO. He missed his plane because of some sort of car trouble.
1pm - We arrived at our 5 bedroom condo to find out we couldn’t check in until 4pm. So we headed to Target to have some cheesy pizza lunch and get some groceries. The plan was to buy a frozen lasagne and put it in the oven for dinner
5pm – back to condo…cleaning people still there! We ‘moved in’ anyway.
6pm – Oven is still on cleaning mode. Plan D: Order Chinese.
The babies had a great time exploring the house and leaning on the glass sliding doors. They also had a great time eating a piece of cake!
9pm – kids in bed. Vivit looses a crown off her tooth while eating some candies my girls shared with her.
10 – trip to Walgreens to get temporary dental fill.
11 – Unpack. Get settled.
Midnight – Goodnight.
1am – Good morning…baby up. One or the other baby was pretty much up all night till 4am. Thank God for Grandmas.

Thursday Feb. 18
9 am – get going. Mike takes Vivit to Dentist
Noon – All are at MGM studios. Kids saw Playhouse Disney show.
We got to see the Cars show where they spin around and jump through fire! The girls loved it! Mike got us plenty of pretzels to eat. Aldona and Vivit split up. We met up again to see the Little Mermaid show. It was really neat! The babies loved watching the fishy puppets. The steam and lazer lights made it look like we were under water! Too bad we waited in line for 1 ½ hours! We also got to see the Muppets show, which the girls didn’t want to do (cranky! And didn’t like the 3D glasses) but they ended up really enjoying it. We ate dinner outside at Pizza Planet and then went to play in the ‘Honey I shrunk the Kids’ playground which was really cool, but they closed it only a few minutes after we got there. Then Mike and Aldona spent at least an hour shopping for a sweatshirt for Vivit so she could stay warm for the fireworks at the ‘Fantasmic’ show that night. Mike and I got to use not-so-fast fast passes to go on Tower of Terror and met some nice people in line from Minnesota. It was freezing after that, so the Grandmothers and I took off with the babies and Ingrid (who chose not to stay for the show) and Mike stayed with Vivit and Helen and had a good time! Feliks came in flying standby at 11:30 pm. unfortunately, his luggage did not.

Friday Feb.19
Seaworld! Ingrid & Helen’s favorite! We saw the Shamu show…which was actually pretty anti-climactic and cheesy. We ate sandwhiches while we waited for it to start, and the man with a nice camera who sat behind us had lots of fun taking pictures of Nora and I! We also saw fishes, and of course our family favorite: STINGRAYS!

Over the rest of the trip, we went to Seaworld for a 2nd time (your 1 day ticket actually gets you in 2 different days!) and went to Disney's Magic Kingdom on Monday. That was great, it wasn't crowded and we got to do EVERYTHING the kids wanted (I think!) Ingrid said her favorite was the Dumbo ride and Helen's favorite was 'It's a small world'. They both loved seeing a show outside the castle that had all the princesses dressed up! I think we did everything in Fantasyland - Teacups, Peter Pan, Philharmagic, Winnie the Pooh, as well as the race cars, Toy story etc. Pretty much we didn't leave fantasy land all day! The babies were great and went on pretty much everything with us and didn't get too scared or tired - they napped in their stroller!

February 28th
Well, we are back home. And it is amazing that the babies actually slept better on vacation than they do at home now that we’re back! I think we just wore them out and they were so exhausted that they couldn’t help sleeping all night! (most nights anyway!) Funny that now it seems Stella is sleeping better and sometimes all night long, where Nora is now the one getting up. Ahhhh twins…

Sara's baby shower went well. The only close call is that I asked target to decorate the cake with airplanes and it came looking like a bunch of red & blue whales all over her cake! Somehow, I managed to luck out matching the color and fixing it myslef wihtout totally redoing it! It was fun to see everyone there and play all the games etc. Everyone always thinks I will win the babyfood game, and after 4 kids, I am still clueless and not even close to winning!
The babies also had their birthday party. There were a ton of people there and it was ton of fun! I bought cakes pre-made from Target, but decorated them myself to look like ladybugs (learned my lesson!). That was fun! The big kids all got to decorate cupcakes at the party, so they all had fun with that. I had a great time seeing everyone, and it seems like the kids all had fun with each other too – then again, we do live in a giant toy box…