The neighbor kids introduced Elizabeth and Joey to their pogo stick and Elizabeth has been on a mission to get one of her own. We found some at TRU last weekend and the kids have been on them everyday when there is not snow on the driveway 🙂 Brings back memories and they are having a lot of fun counting their jumps before falling off.
This weekend we began to paint our model rockets. All was going very well with the kids picking their colors and learning to use spray paint. As they came in and out of the garage between coats of paint, I decided to ‘help’ the drying process on Joey’s rocket. His fins happen to be plastic and as I was looking around and holding his rocket in front of the heater I was shocked to look down and see the fins all curled up 🙁 Thankfully Joey took it well but I have been beating myself up hoping that I can get replacement parts or simply start a new rocket for him.
More to come! We plan to launch them on a WARM spring day with little wind. With some success launching these rockets, we are going to attach a ‘spy’ HD key ring camera like the one on this video. Should be fun!
The first pass…
The ‘overheated’ fins of Joey’s rocket compliments of Dad
Finished products minus Joey’s rocket 🙁 …
We bought the kids model rockets for Christmas and we decided a rainy afternoon was a good time to start building them 🙂
The kids are very curious but also commented that they “just want to launch them”. I guess this is an example of our instant gratification based society. In the end, I hope they are proud of their work 🙂
We made a break for it on Monday and flew to Orlando for a couple of days to visit Disney World. It had been two years since our first visit there and the kids were excited to see some new things and remember some others they had forgotten. We planned on two days of park visits. The first day was at the Magic Kingdom. Even though it was the same week of the year that we visited two years ago the temperature was completely different. Our last visit was 90+ and sometimes miserable in the heat. This time we were bundled up with temps trying to reach 50 degrees.
We started at Belle’s house which is a new ‘show’ and then proceeded to see some of the other princesses, fairies, and characters such as Buzz Lightyear and Captain Jack Sparrow who we missed in our previous visit. On the second day, the plan was to start at Hollywood Studios and then Epcot later in the day. Unfortunately, just as we were getting ready to pass into Hollywood Studios Elizabeth got sick and ended up with a short lived flu bug. The girls went back to the hotel for the day and Joey and I spent the day doing “guy stuff” and saw a few stunt shows and Starwars related activities.
It was a good trip and we made the best of it even with Elizabeth not feeling well.
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Cinderella’s Castle in the background.
We were early to the airport and did not make the first flight which Elizabeth was excited about so that we could hang out at the club!? 🙂
The ride to Magic Kingdom
The princess from Brave
Buzz!
Joey was picked to play the part of the Beast with Belle and danced with her (I was jealous)
Tinkerbell
Indiana Jones Show
The Star Tours show was awesome
The Lights, Motors, Action! show was very entertaining
Maybe I can be a brick layer? We had fun with the snow brick makers today.
If this computer thing doesn’t work out…, originally uploaded by Woldfamily.net.
While Carolyn was hanging with her lady friends, the kids and I took to the snow and ice for a couple of hours.
Today I enjoyed some time with Elizabeth and Joey at school. We had walking tacos for lunch and I read to Elizabeth’s class.
Carolyn, the kids, and I went to see the Ice Palace a couple of weeks ago at sundown. It was pretty cool!
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Green with a purple stripe…
He is a proud boy and he should be as he worked pretty hard to get the form memorized. He said that he didn’t need the instructor to tell him the moves 🙂
