Happy New Year 07

Happy New Year 2007!

With the New Year comes new adventures… most importantly this big sister is going to have a little sister!  It’s a girl, or so says this funny picture that mom showed me.  I didn’t see pigtails and a dress, but momma swears it’s a little girl.  Another dose of womanhood in the Manning household.  2007 also brought me to Florida to see Bubbe and Grampa Manning.  We went to the zoo and saw these really cool otters swimming around in a pool with a slide and all kinds of balls and water. I totally wanted to climb in but momma said no L We also went to visit Anna and Alex in their new home, boy was that way cool… they have their very own pool in the house but it was too late for me to take a dip.  Although I was denied the water experience at Anna’s and at the zoo I did get to go in Bubbe’s pool a lot.  That was way fun!

So from southern Florida we went up to Orlando where I got my first dose of the Mickey chaos!  Wow, there were so many people there to say hi to!  Everyone was so nice and wanted to give me high fives!  We took the Ferryboat to the Island of the Magic Kingdom.  We went to the Country Bear Jamboree, there were the giganto bears that sang to me and one even came down from the sky… wow!  We had lunch at the Palace Café where I got to meet the Mayor of Main Street and the Fire Chief!  They didn’t serve mac and cheese but I really liked the cookies! 

By the time we got on and off It’s a Small World, I didn’t see that we were in a boat on water… all this water that I can’t play in- what’s with that?  I think I’ve graduated from wanting to be a princess to wanting to be Tinker Bell.  She’s much more sassy and gets this great wand!  Besides instead of 1 boy, she has lots of them following her around!  That’s what I’m talking about J 

I zonked out at dusk so Dad and Nana decided to go on Space Mountain.  About 10 minutes after they got in line I woke up and was HUNGRY… so I made my peace known until momma got me a huge hot fudge sundae.  After that we went to the arcade and watched the big kids on “Dance Dance” it’s this really cool video game where they dance to awesome Disney songs.  Way fun. 

The best part of the Disney day was the parade.  I got to sit in the special section with all my friends who needed a little extra help too.  We traded stories about shoes and AFO’s and doctors.  Everyone was so nice.  I made Nana hang on to me the whole parade so I could get up close and personal with the characters. 

Mom was really tired out by the end of the day.  Maybe I should have shared my stroller with her.  We have lots of pictures to upload to the site I can’t wait to share them with you.

I was very excited to return home, via a stop at Auntie Jeannie’s house where we saw her and Cathy (thanks girls for the lunch and company!).  I have been catching up on my toys and friends at school.  I even worked for my OT – yeah really… I put play dough in a cup 4 times yesterday.  I must be happy to be home!  Happy New Year to you all.  Resolve to have 07 be the best adventure yet!  Love, Peace, and Cows- Arianna