magic kingdom by moonlight

I love the magic kingdom... I love the parades, I love the big castle, I love seeing the characters... actually I love watching Megan watch the parade, being with Megan as she points up to 'Cinderella's house' and hearing her high pitched squeal as she names all the characters. Being with a three year old at Disneyworld is definitely magical.

Megan loved everything... all except for not being big enough to ride the 'big kid rides'. Every time there was ride with a height minimum chart she'd run over and stand under trying to be as tall as she could. She even tried standing on her tippy toes but still her head didn't touch the top. "I not big enough" she would say.

Chris and I took turns hanging out with Luke and Megan and doing parent swaps. Ryan, Katie and Emily were thrilled because it meant they got to do most of the rides twice. Their favorites were of course, the three mountains... Space mountain, Splash mountain and Thunder Mountain Railroad. Even Emily and Sloan did all the rides together with their hands straight up in the air.

Luke was pretty entertained just watching everything. He spent a little time in his stroller and a lot of time being carried by Tori or Sophie. Spoiled boy. His favorite rides (if you can really pick favorites for a 5 1/2 month old) were the Winnie the Pooh ride and It's a Small World.

Chris took the little kids on a 'no crazy spinning' ride. Jim took the older kids on a super crazy spinning ride.

Ryan after Jim's super crazy spinning ride.


Keeping the crawfords up past their bedtime...
The park was open till 11:00pm... but if you were staying in a disney resort then you could go get a special wristband for extended hours until 2:00am! We got the wristbands thinking it might be fun to do a couple rides right after 11:00 with no lines. Little did we know that the Johnson Crawford party would be closing the park. It was like having Disneyland to ourselves! How about walking on to the Peter Pan ride and then staying on for a second ride -- only at 1:00am! At 1:30 we stopped to have rootbeer floats and ice cream cones and get our pictures taken with Donald Duck. Then Micky, Minnie, Pluto and Goofy came out and all five of them got on the Dumbo ride. It was so cute! When the clock struck 2:00 we dragged ourselves down Mainstreet and left the park. By the time we got to our resort almost all the kids were asleep on the shuttle and we didn't have enough arms to carry them. We were all tired. Getting off the shuttle one of the kids said something that wasn't that funny but because we were delirious Marisa and I couldn't stop laughing. We almost dropped the sleeping kids. Too fun. Definitely a great night!!

3D glasses for Mickey's PhilharMagic -- SO good!

Emily and Donald

Stopping for a 1:30am snack!

A little tired... leaving the park at 2:00am!