Friday, July 2, 2010

June California Trip - Part 3

DISNEYLAND
KALIA & MAYA'S 1ST VISIT
JUNE 26, 2010

The Castle
Kalia dressed in her Cinderella dress that Martha gave her -
Cinderella is officially her favorite princess.

Maya dropping her coin into Snow White's
Wishing Well with Uncle Tim.

Mommy & Maya on the carousel

This was the first ride we went to and unfortunately they
had technical difficulties and we had to get off.
We went to ride Peter Pan and when we got
off I couldn't contain Kalia as she ran over to the
carousel, when she saw that it was going again.

Storybook Land Boats

Maya & Auntie Kim

Casey Jr. Train

Then we headed to the Princess Faire
and didn't leave for 2 hours.
Yes, there are a lot of princess photos here!
We hit the princess jackpot!

Kalia watching Sleeping Beauty (Aurora)
tell her story at storytime.

Practicing her "princess" moves during the Royal Coronation.

Doing the Royal Dance Moves:)

The princesses came out!

Kalia took off running when the princesses came out
to meet everyone & take photos.
She ran so fast over to Cinderella.

Cinderella told Kalia that she wanted to wear
her dress for summertime.

Sleeping Beauty

Waiting with her autograph book.
It's just too cute!

Snow White

Then we waited for the Princess Walk and met
three other princesses...Belle.

Belle (Beauty & the Beast)

Giving Tiana her autograph book
(thanks Auntie Kim for bringing that for her-
she decorated it with stickers the other day).

Tiana (Princess & the Frog)

Talking to Ariel

Ariel (Little Mermaid)

Ariel & Maya
Maya at one point put up her little arms
for Ariel to hold her.
Maya wearing the new ariel pajamas
tutu bought them - they have been
wearing them as much as I let them at home!

Toon Town
I put this one up for Erik,
he laughed at my typical photo pose.

Kalia went on the roller coaster
in Toon Town with me & Allie.
It was really fun!

Here's the blurry close up,
look how little Kalia looks!

End of the night after amazing
fireworks show, eating my lollipop
with Papa.

So after Toon Town we went on It's a Small World and then watched the parade. For some reason we decided it would be a good idea to take the girls on Pirates of the Carribean, after all Kalia handled the roller coaster. Well, I forgot that Pirates is kinda scary, poor Kalia was scared and cried. Even today, she thought she saw a pirate in the window of a store by the bank and talked about it all the way to Safeway. I'm sure she's not scarred for life...right? But then we went on the Winnie the Pooh ride and took the train back for fireworks- so she was all smiles at the end of the day. Maya charged the whole day, she really is a trooper!

So here's a little story from today. As we were driving home from Safeway Kalia was telling me about Princess Rosa (for those of you that don't know, Princess Rosa is Kalia's alias princess name). So it turns out that Princess Rosa also lives at Disneyland, but she lives further away (that's why we didn't see her) on the other side of It's a Small World. She like to pick nuts and berries and she has several fairies named: Flower, Emma, Tiara, Tiada & Ballerina.

Today Maya sneezed and then said, "bless you". We've also still had some issues with sleep and the other night she was up between 2am - 4am. After about an hour and the 5th time I tried to put her back down, she started calling, "mommy, mommy, mommy, are you?" (where are you). Gosh she really does know how to work me, how cute is that?

During one particularly trying day at Lo's house, I was trying to get a very overtired Maya to take a much needed nap. She was twisting and turning in my arms and crying in protest and just as I was about lose it, she totally turns it around and looks at me with a smile and says, "funny?" She is definitely going to be a challenging child - she's already messing with my head.

We met Kalia's friend Scarlett and her mom Celia at the beach yesterday and Maya was copying everything the girls were doing. At one point all of them were crawling around on their hands and knees pretending to be kitty cats "meow, meow". And when I mentioned it to Erik after dinner, she did it again!



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