As many of you know we took our first family trip to Disney World last week with 20 other LaFond family members and some friends. Despite a few challenges (stomach flu or food poisoning took down 3 of the 6 of us for at least 24 hours around Day 3, including CK; rain, wind and cold weather for the last 3 days of the trip; flight delays causing us to have to reschedule our flight home for a day later and scramble for a last minute hotel room; Craig passing out on the plane and staying 2 extra days in an Orlando hospital) we made the best of the trip and actually had a pretty good time, despite everything. Reese and Asher enjoyed it a lot, Emily tired of the stroller and Soren was just fine hanging out in my sling the entire week. CK was a trooper despite his Day 3 stomach bug that likely helped him lose 10 pounds. Overall, I felt pretty good and probably better than I expected to at 3 weeks post c-section.
Some pictures from the trip. Asher posing in front of his favorite ride (Dumbo)
Reese meeting her favorite princess, Ariel, for the first time
Soren, in case you try to blame me later, Dad is the one who jacked up your pants in this picture...
Reese hamming it up on Main Street with Walt
Meeting Mickey and Goofy at Animal Kingdom (Asher was a bit shy about posing with the characters)
Family photo with Donald
Our crew (minus the photographer, CK)
Snack time in the stroller
Posing with Belle in her Aurora dress
Posing with Cinderella
Aurora and her mini-me
Asher warmed up to Snow White
Ariel ("with legs" as Reese called this version)
Being silly in front of Nemo and Friends
Emily liked the real fish
Soren, at 3 weeks, already trying to lift his little head up to check out the world
Meeting Jake
and Doc McStuffins
and of course, Sophia the First
Thumbs up with the toy soldier at Hollywood Studios
Asher settled for a "five"
Reese got all dolled up like a princess at the Bippitti Boppitti Boutique in Cinderella's castle
The "shield" from all the hairspray :)
getting her nails done...I don't think I've ever been this pampered in a spa in my life
mid hairstyle...they keep them turned away from the mirror so they can't see themselves until the very end
getting her sash
applying Tinkerbell's glitter to her hair
closing her eyes for the big reveal...
seeing herself for the first time (I'm the one with the flash camera in the mirror simultaneously nursing Soren who was covered in glitter himself for the rest of the day)
Reese and Asher posing in Cinderella's castle before we had breakfast with all the princesses
Aurora #2
Princess Jasmine
And the one picture of the whole crew (all 26 of us) before we went to the Hoop Dee Doo Revue. Note the sweatshirts and blankets due to the rain, wind and cold. But we still had a great time!
