Anticipation

Tomorrow morning at 6 we're headed to Orlando to take Payton to Disney for the first time at 2 years 8 months old. Yes, everyone says it's too young, we're crazy. Well, everyone who doesn't have a 2 year old or a 3 year old who has gone. All of them say, take her, she'll LOVE IT!! Besides, before she's 3 she's still free, and Momma likes a bargain. Wow, can you really talk about Disney and bargains in the same thought??? Anyway...

Miss Payton is excited. Very excited to say the least. We didn't talk about it until after New Year's really because that just would have been too far out for her to deal with. So about 2-3 weeks ago we started talking up the trip. We told her that Mickey would be there, as well as all of the princesses. As we've talked and talked she's had many questions and thoughts about how this is all going to go down. So we've determined that there will in fact be hot dogs there, and juice. These are high priorities to Payton, especially the juice as it's a special occasion drink. We've gone back and forth trying to explain to her that Mickey and the Princesses will talk, she still doesn't 100% believe us on that one. We've had LONG discussions about how Kitty will be traveling, where he will be allowed to go and where he won't. She's bound and determined that he will be with us at the Parks and that Mommy can carry him in the bag, her solution when Daddy expressed concerns that he could be lost. We'll see who wins that battle. So for the last week she's been running around the house in her most excited whisper voice shouting to us that we're gonna see Mickey and THE PRINCESSES!!! As she whisper/shouts this she grins from ear to ear and jumps up and down with arms waving. I don't think a little girl could be any more happy. In fact last night she professed to me again how proud she is of me, for taking her on this trip. Gotta love the kudos from a kid.

This morning she helped me pack her suitcase. And in true female character she piled every pair of shoes she has in the suitcase as well as ribbons and necklaces. I sure hope she forgives me when we get there tomorrow and instead finds only 3 pairs of shoes and 5 outfits. I may be a mom, but I'm still a girl too, of course she's overpacked! It's about 3 pm as I'm writing this and I think that MAYBE packing at 10 this morning was a bad idea, because every since we finished she's been dragging the suitcase around telling me that it's time to go.