The Best Ride in Orlando

Today we went and watched cousin Kaylan march in the 12:00 parade at Magic Kingdom. If she hadn't started cracking up at the sight of Justin, we might never have spotted her. After that, we went over to Epcot. Alexis loved the Nemo ride and watching the fish in the huge aquariums. I enjoyed watching her yell at a little boy when he knocked her over in front of the aquarium.

For as much as she enjoyed the aquarium, I have to confess that Alexis' favorite Orlando ride is the one where you run all over the place in the condo and crawl into the cabinets. Our condo is a huge three bedroom place complete with a dining room, home office, and a kitchen that I would love to have in my house. There is tons of room for her to run all over and all of the cabinets are empty. That makes for the perfect ride.

Where There's a Will

There is always a way. This is the skeleton of Alexis' new site. Since I can't upload photos to the Verizon site, I thought I would throw them out here. Next week I'll make it my mission to get everything straightened out. Vacation is not the time for such drama.

Anyway, this first group of photos is from when we punished Alexis earlier by taking her to the beach. She looks much happier in the photos than she really was.

I have lots more photos and I will add them as time permits. Good night!

Ahhhhh . . .My Ears!

So, in an effort to put an end to the Justin Timberlake SexyBack constant loop that has been playing in my car (I'm really not kidding when I say Alexis LOVES that song), I ventured to Target to buy her some of her own music. I played with the buttons in the store and we sampled some tunes. Alexis decided she could boogey down to "She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain" and I thought we had a winner. Now, the sample music was expensive Disney CDs. Being the genius that I am, I though to myself "How different could the $6 CD possibly be? It's the same songs." WRONG.

So I get the CD in the car and turn it on. I'm thinking it's going to be people who just never managed to make it big singing kid songs to pay the bills. Uh, no. It was a man and a woman that sounded like they were as tone deaf as a rock but took themselves REALLY seriously. I think they locked themselves in a closet with an electronic keyboard. The musical geniuses that they clearly are, they tortured small children and forced them to sing along. The kids definately sound abused, I'm not joking. They managed to make "This Old Man" the most depressing song I've ever heard (How do you make "Knick Knack Paddy Wack" depressing? you may ask. Trust me, it can be done.). Anyway, my ears were bleeding after scanning about eight songs, Alexis was screaming her head off, and then Justin brought the SexyBack and all was right with the world.

Moral of the story: don't go cheap on kids music. Trust me.