About 2 or 3 months before our trip we started talking about how we were going to go to Disneyland. After about two days of Emily asking 12 times a day how many days until we went to Disneyland we decided to make a paper chain countdown. It worked great! She knew when all the rings were gone it was time to go.
Before we left, I stole this idea from our friends Lars and Kate. They recently went to Disneyland and made their kids autograph books. I thought it was a cute idea so I stole it. :) Here's the book I made for Emily.
We were ready to go. Day 1 was nothing super special. Just flying to California. This was Chase's first plane ride. He did pretty good. Cried for maybe five minutes total the whole flight but he was getting really frustrated that he couldn't get down and run around. He was a little exhausting but luckily grandma was there and grandmas seem to always have magic powers.
The rest of the day was spent checking into the hotel, dinner at Mimi's Cafe, and a trip to Target. Pretty exciting.
Chase has never been a really great sleeper so we were terrified of this trip. I knew being in a hotel room where we were all in the same room, not being in his own crib, time change, etc were going to make things difficult. I was right. We first tried to just put him to bed like we do at home. He screamed bloody murder. For a long time. I really don't think I've heard him scream like that. Luckily I am married to McGyver because Robert ghetto rigged some blankets so that he couldn't see the rest of the room, or himself in the mirror, and that worked wonders. He didn't really take naps the whole trip except in the stroller but he at least slept at night. I wish I would have taken a picture because it was quite the sight. I'm sure housekeeping thought we were a little crazy.
We went to bed early and were ready for Disneyland!!
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You FLEW?!? CHEATERS!!!
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