Rachel is really starting to put her letters and sounds together from preschool. They are doing phonics and the Spalding method so she hasn’t learned letter names yet. She knows all the sounds and is starting to get the hand of writing them.
Today she kept asking me how to spell things. She spent the whole afternoon doing it. Here is her best effort.
It says Debbie, mom, bob, and dad.
For Thanksgiving we took the family to Disneyland again this year. It was a ton of fun, the best part was that Rachel was tall enough and brave enough to go on most rides so we were able to ride almost everything as a family.
Brandon’s knee is still really bad, so we rented a wheelchair for him and we took off early every morning and got back late each night. This was a common sight as we stood in line. When Rachel got tired she jumped up on Brandon’s lap.
Wednesday we got to the park early so we could do the new Cars ride. Bob and Brandon went straight to the fast pass line and the other kids and I followed the crowd to the ride. Bob and Brandon jumped in with us when we got a point they could come in. After about an hour and a half we got on. I have to say it is pretty cool. It is like you just stepped into the movie. Everyone loved it. We loved it so much that as soon as we go off it was time for our fast pass so we went on again.
We spent most of the rest of the day at California Adventure. Rachel even did Tower of Terror!!! That was the one ride she said she didn’t want to do again.Here is a picture of our picture!!!
By the end of the night everyone was beat! Rachel fell asleep while we waited for Bob to return the wheelchair.
We started Thursday off early with our Magic Morning early entry into Disneyland at 7:00. In the hour before the park opened we got Space Mountain, Star Tours, Buzz Light-year, Peter Pan, Dumbo, Tea Cups, Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio and Snow White all done. It was the perfect start to our day.
Next we headed to Autotopia and Small world. After that Bob and Brandon did Matterhorn while the kids and I did Finding Nemo.
Today we never stopped I think we hit every ride in the park at least once and some like Big Thunder Mountain, Star tours and Splash Mountain a few time. We also found a few characters today.
Since it was Thanksgiving Brandon had a turkey leg for lunch. He ate the whole thing!
We took in the parade and because of the wheelchair we were able to go in one of the roped off areas. It was still a little hard for Rachel to see so she spent most of the time on my shoulders.
We pushed on through dinner time so the kids could ride a few more things and then after another trip down Splash Mountain(this time as a whole family, I don’t like to get wet unless we are done for the day) we headed to the hotel. We feasted on some tasty McDonalds for dinner.
