Destination Disney!!!

Wow! We had a blast this past weekend. We hit all four Major Disney Parks, (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom) + Blizzard Beach Water park and Downtown Disney. It was all so much fun! It truly is full of Disney Magic!

Here are our Peterson Family Top 10 Disney Favorites...

1. Favorite Park: Hollywood Studios - something for everyone! We spent the morning of Day 2 there. Got into the park an extra hour early and rushed to get on the Toy Story Mania Ride. The line was ridiculous but luckily it moved fast and was totally worth it. We loved it!



2. Favorite Family ride: Toy Story Mania 3D in Hollywood Studios.


3. Favorite mommy ride: The Tea Cups


4. Favorite "Un"-Magical Moment: Finding out that the Magic Kingdom although filled with all its Mickey Glory, is really not that "Magical" for us. McCoy hated every ride there and wouldn't go on anything. I think part of it was he was tired, HOT, and just scared. We watched 2 grown men almost get in a fight, they pushed and shoved and had some choice words. It was not pretty or very Disney Like. Apparently it is not Magical for everyone...And of course McCoy was asleep before we even got out of the park. I also lost a shoe at the water park the next morning. Not very fun on the hot hot ground!




5. Favorite Characters: Mickey and Minni of course!




6. Favorite Rides for Daddy: Epcot fast track, Rock'n Roller Coaster and Expedition Everest. McCoy was soooo not thrilled to let daddy ride that one. Espcially when he found out there was Yeti in the mountain the roller coaster/train rode through. He actually FORBID me to ride any scary rides. Lucky for him I was more than compliant...this time...I had to be. This is McCoy Boo'ing the ride.


7. Favorite good decision: Staying on Disney grounds. We parked our car and were driven around the rest of the time. No worries. Our hotel was themed and fun and McCoy just ate it up. Plus extended park hours for Disney Resort Guests is a nice perk too.



8. Favorite Parade: The Pixar Parade. The night time parade was pretty cool too though but just couldn't match the fun and excitement of dancing toys.



9. Favorite Show: It's Tough to Be a Bug! The super cool 3D Bug eyes is what sold us!

10: All time Favorite: Just being together as a family. Being silly, being us, and being together! It was Disney magic!

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Pregnant Lady Singing in the Rain

Bob the Builder, Beach Bomb Baby, Boo boos & Beautiful Florida Weather

I have said it before and I will say it again...I live in Paradise! I am not shy about saying that I am not and never have been a fan of the cold. But I must say I am so thankful for the beautiful snow that fell over Idaho this past weekend. I got lots of texts and e-mail pictures from friends and family back west and it was so nice to see how pretty the ground looked covered in snow. But what made me even more happier is that it all happened way back in Idaho far far from me. I love to see the pictures because it is really just beautiful and there is something to be said about the magical feeling of the "first snow." Glad I got see the pictures, hear all about it and be a small part of it without having to actually be there. Brrrr.


We spent the past two weekends playing outside here and enjoying our own beautiful weather. Sunny and fabulous! Last weekend was Miami Beach and this past weekend we hit the pool a couple of times. We love the beach; building sand castles and snorkeling and just chillin. I haven't been out in the sun much so I was trying to sun my big belly. You wanted some preggo pics. Here they are!


Goggly eyes! Glade and I each got our own set of goggles. McCoy started using them while he was taking swimming lessons and he loves them and convinced Glade and I to try them out. Neither of us has had them before so we were like kids in the pool. We looked like such dorko's but we had a blast. The three of us would all go underwater and make faces at each other and just be silly. I never go under with my eyes open because of contacts and Glade doesn't either because he has very sensitive eyes so it was so fun for McCoy to have us under the water with him enjoying his underwater antics. He is such a nut. I need an underwater camera now. In this picture McCoy is wearing my goggles and I am wearing his.


Boo Boo's. Friday before class McCoy tripped and face planted it into the asphalt in the parking lot. His elbow and knee did not break his fall as much as his poor head. He immediately got a giant goose egg and started bleeding. He got up and ran away from embarrassment mostly and then cried briefly but as soon as I cleaned him off, He just couldn't wait to get to class to show his teacher and classmates his battle wounds. He is such a boy. I sat with him during the first few minutes of class just to make sure he was ok. (Overprotective Mother I know). We iced his goose-egg but he really didn't seem to bothered by it at all. I think it was an adrenaline rush for him more than anything especially with all the other kids coming over to check it out and wanting to touch it. Danger Boy Wonder! Oh my.


I took these pics two days later after the swelling went down. He is such a trooper. He was like, mom, they don't even hurt anymore why do you want a picture. I didn't have an answer for him other than I take pictures of everything in his life that happens to him. Big or small. He told me I take too many pictures! He's probably right but It's all part of the storytelling. Every story needs a picture. It really just reminded me of when he was a baby, just walking, and then a toddler who was always exploring. He ALWAYS had a bump or bruise on his head. It's been a while though. My baby boy is just too dang big. Four years old and I can't get enough of him. I want him to go back to being a baby, I want him to stay the age he is, and yet I can't wait for him to grow a little more because with each new stage comes something amazing out of this kid. He says and does so many cool things and I love all his stages, and all his bumps and bruises! My heart overflows with nothing but love for my little man. I can't wait to have two!

Can we Build it? Yes we Can! Of course as it is the first of the month we never miss our Home Depot Day/Dunken Doughnuts day! Here is the latest project.

Oh Baby baby...

Good news...I am not sick! The preggy morning/all day sickness is finally over for real and I am finally beyond the hacking miserable woman I was a week ago! No more sore throat and cough. Hooray! And since I've got some energy back I started working out again and doing yoga and my body is ever so grateful. It feels so good to stretch it all out every night and it helps me sleep so much better.

Bad News...Still don't know the baby's gender AND I won't know for 3 more weeks AND I am not as far along as I was originally led to believe. Seems the preggy calculator was a bit off...ok way off. I was told at my first appointment though that the due date could be off by a couple of weeks and they wouldn't know for sure until the ultrasound so I wasn't too surprised but still, it took me back a bit because it just wasn't off a week or two, it was off a whole MONTH. Oh well, more time for me to start eating better and cut back on the Dr. Peppers I guess. New due date is beginning of March but they told me we better wait to pinpoint a date until the next ultrasound. Good news...I get to have another ultrasound! :)

Good News...as far as the technician could tell, the baby looks great. Has all arms and legs, fingers and toes, good head shape and a strong heartbeat. He/she was facing away from the camera with his/her legs underneath him/her so we couldn't even guess at the gender but the tech said it was probably too soon anyway. I was just so relieved to see a healthy baby in there and now I am really looking forward to seeing the next ultrasound and how the baby will have grown.

And then there were two...

On Saturday Daddy got the opportunity to head out to the Gainesville Swamp to watch the Florida Gators game with a buddy of his and McCoy and I got to have a mommy and me day. Daddy had to wake up super early to get the game so McCoy and I got to sleep in. Then later that afternoon we met up with a good friend and her adorable baby girl for lunch at one of our favorite places, Tijuana Flats! Yum! We did a little shopping afterward and then headed home for a little nap before we hit the movies that night. This was our first time going to the movies just me and McCoy and it was also both of our first time seeing a movie in 3D. I have to say it was such an experience, I loved watching McCoy's face as he tried to dodge things that were coming out of the screen, and also how he tried to catch things that weren't really there. I think I watched more of McCoy than I did the actual movie but I just couldn't help myself. It was so funny to hear all of his excitement and reactions to the movie. My favorite though was after the movie he wrapped his arms around me and gave me the biggest hug and kiss on the cheek and thanked me for bringing him to such a funny good show. Awww - I live for those moments! McCoy was asleep when daddy got home from the game so the next morning he woke up and just couldn't wait to tell daddy all about the movie, "Where the things come out of the screen and really look like they come so close up to your face!" The smile on his face as he described it just lit me up again inside. I love that little stinker so much and hope he never gets to big to hang with his momma.

The "TERMINATOR"

So yesterday at school must have been tell about your parents occupation day, because when Glade went to pick up McCoy from school the teachers asked him, "So are you an EX-TERMINATOR? Glade said yes, wondering why she exaggerated the word exterminator. She laughed and said, "Oh well, McCoy told the whole class today all about your work saying his daddy was a "Terminator."

I guess the teachers got a kick out of it, but what is even more funny is that the kids, especially the boys, got a such a kick out of McCoy's daddy's occupation. I even had a couple of the moms stop me today and tell me stories of how there kids went home yesterday saying that they all wanted to be "Terminators" just like McCoy's daddy. The boys were pretty impressed that McCoy's daddy gets to play with bugs all day. :)

It's funny to see things from a child's view. McCoy and I just want to say that we LOVE our TERMINATOR! He works so hard to make sure we have a GREAT life, and we get to spend so much time together and that makes everything he does worth it! Babe you are an excellent Daddy, a terrific husband, and a wonderfully smart provider and we couldn't be happier. We love you so much Terminator!

"Because I'm a RocKsTaR. Thats why."

McCoy came home from school the other day with an apple print painting. The kids used real apples as stamps and they got to choose two colors to use. From what I gather the colors they got to choose from where red, yellow and green. Well it just so happens that McCoy's favorite colors are Red and Green. So he comes home and shows me his artwork and tells me, "Look at the awesome apple stamping I did today, I used real apples and I even got to use my favorite colors." I asked him if everyone in the class got to use there favorite colors and he told me no, that he was the only one who got to use his favorite colors. I asked him why he got to use his favorite colors, (I was trying to get him to tell me it was because his favorite colors were in the group of colors he got to chose from, he is also working on grouping at school)But I was not prepared for his response. He looked at me with those 'oh you are so clueless mom' eyes and replied, "Because I'm a Rockstar! That's why I get to use my favorite colors and not anybody else."

Oh my I have created a monster! I will have you know that I am not the only one though. Even his teachers last year use to call him Rockstar and several of his friends parents. He is what he is I guess. Our little RocKsTaR!

This is a photo we took yesterday at the mall. One of the photo places was having a special so I signed him up a couple of days in advance. I wanted to get a picture of him being him. He got to pick out his own outfits and props. He took his guitar but unfortunately none of those pics came out. (I am not a fan of studio pics. I prefer candid and un-posed but the price was right so we went for it) Anywho, this is what he chose to wear, his favorite bands t-shirt and wristband. I can't say I am a fan of the wristband or the t-shirt for that matter but this is him being him! My little RocKsTaR!

Coughs and Crushes

The stinking cough is still hanging out in my throat and refuses to leave. I am getting desperate. I have been kicked out of my bed for a week now. I've been on and off the phone today waiting for the doc to get back to me with some other options. It is just a simple sinus infection but the actual infection is long gone. So basically I'm suffering from post nasal drip. Seriously. Something so minor has me begging for relief - guess everything is a big deal when it comes to being preggy.

But on the up side. Aside from the retched cough (and the gagging/puking it causes) I am actually pleased to say that yes, aside from all that I am feeling pretty good. I am getting some energy back and moving around a with a bit more ease. I am in de-clutter mode these days too. I have to be careful because I just want to go around the house and start throwing things away to make room. Make room for what I don't know yet, just feel like I need more room and open up some space.

And the big guy is doing great! He is finally all settled in school and gets ready and goes happily into class with no more tears. It took the first two weeks to get him back in the groove but now he has lots of friends in school and even his first "CRUSH." Isn't that crazy? Glade and I have both tried to talk ourselves out of it because we just couldn't believe it. He is too tiny our baby boy, but yes, he is crushing hard on a little girl in his class. Everyday he asks me if she will be there and if I think she will sit by him or play with him at recess. And if she talks to him it is his "Best Day Ever." Oh, Boy! I think it is just too funny. Although sometimes it's so sad because he gets so heartbroken on the days she doesn't play with him. What's a momma to do. At least everyday is a new day and he bounces back fast that's all I can say. :)