Part 2

I meant to do this earlier in the week, sorry! My two favorite things we did at Disney world were the dinner with Cinderella and Jedi training. Both were absolutely priceless! The character dinner was such a blast, Pantera got so excited as each person from Cinderella came and visited with us at our table. She still brags to everyone that the prince wanted to dance with her. My favorite Pantera picture on here is the weird dreamy looking one, I caught her face as the prince and Cinderella were dancing...so romantic!!! After spending the week with her cousins, Pantera was all about star wars. They have a really cute Jedi training show that the kids can be a part of. We waited an hour and a half to get a spot, but it was totally worth it in the end! They all took fighting Darth Vader very seriously, especially Ryan, his faces were hilarious!!! I can't believe how quickly the week flew by and that it has already been a week since we have been home!

I have been nesting like a MANIAC!!! It is probably a combination of that and the fact the big trip is over, but I have been keeping as busy as physically possible. I usually have a hard time after I see family (mine or Jess'), I miss living so close to everyone. But I know this is where we are supposed to be and I am grateful for that! Thank you Don and Mary for the great trip, we needed it!!! I can't wait until we can all get together again.

Disneyworld part 1

We drove to Disneyworld on Friday and Saturday, then spent the week. It was so much fun and very exhausting! Zeke absolutely loved Jiminy Cricket, he walked up to him and gave him a half hug then thought it was hilarious as Jiminy was following him around. Pantera was loving all of Jess' family being there and asked each of them for some "Aunt time" or some "Uncle time" where she would spend a little bit of one on one with whoever it was. The whole Hammond family made it and since my sister and I are married to brothers, I got to hang out with my 2 best friends on the planet! Zeke loved having his older cousins around, especially Jordan (he is 3). He would try to do whatever they were doing and laughed at everything Jordan did. At one point Zeke was crying and I asked him if he wanted to go see Jordan and he stops and says "Dyeah" is version of yeah. We had several interesting conversations on the buses to and from the hotel and parks. Pantera informed strangers that she "still wants to marry her cousin Ryan, even though she is not allowed." She has also taken an interest in her Aunt's love life. Jess has a sister who is single, Pantera asks her "When are you going to get married?" Jean replies "Why does it matter?" Pantera: "I don't even have an uncle from you yet!" Jean said something to the effect of she has to find the right person and Pantera says "Well are you even trying?" Jean is in her early 20's and considering Pantera thinks the age to get married is around 13, no wonder she's worried! I will post more later, I have some hilariously cute pics coming...

She told me "I love you mom, thank you for doing my hair in this style. I look so beautiful!" Who are you and what have you done with my kid?!?;)

My mom bought them some Gilad workout videos. Pantera worked out 4 times the first day! Zeke watched and took several water breaks...

She is so focused...

Pantera has started getting into pranks, this makes my heart sing! The other night she was asking me if I've ever seen a man wearing a scarf. I told her I have. She said she thinks that is silly and what if we "put a scarf on Dad while he is sleeping and call him Scarf Dude!" She thought it was the most hilarious thing ever, so we did it and we laughed and laughed. When I was trying to get her in bed the other night, she came downstairs about 6 times. I finally made some sort of hollow threat to her she replied "Well, that was rude." Very matter of fact as if she had done nothing wrong. I love her crazy personality!

Ravioli Yahtzee!

I can't even explain to you how IN LOVE I am with this little boy! We have been playing Mickey Mouse Yahtzee alot lately. When Zeke was almost finished with lunch today, I gave him a drink. He drank most of it, then I noticed he was putting the ravioli in the cup, shaking it, then dumping it out onto his tray over and over again. I think he got a YAHTZEE!!! I think he is going through a major growth spurt because he has been eating nonstop and sleeping like a champ! As soon as he finishes his breakfast he makes the sign for more. He needs a snack between breakfast and lunch. And yesterday I was in the kitchen, he pushed his highchair out and was trying to put his own bib on! I am so lucky to be his mom.

Living room

Before and after living room, again not quite done yet...

Kitchen pics...

I am posting pictures now or I never will. This is my kitchen before we moved in, note the lovely wallpaper and biggest ceiling fan ever!
Cupboards before, so white and gold...

After Jess went out of town...

The kitchen needs cleaned obviously, but we have been working on things in there all day. I still have more I want to do, but it finally feels like it is ours!

Marley and Me

Pantera is funny, when she stays up to late she is even funnier! Pantera stayed up til 1 am for New Years, we watched several movies including Marley and Me. There is a point in the movie that Marley is getting old and needs to be put to sleep, as they go to the vet Pantera jokingly says "What are they going to do, kill him?" I reply "Yes, actually they are. Sometimes when animals are really old and in alot of pain, the nicest thing the vet can do for them is to give them medicine that makes them fall asleep and not wake up again." She paused for a moment and replies "Well, that's a weird kind of niceness!" Then she described the movie to Meredith over the phone and said "They gave Marley medicine that way he will never open his eyeball again, not even a wink!" Now I know, watch sad movies with Pantera and they aren't so sad...