The super busy week was starting to catch up with Tommy and Charlotte.
Especially Charlotte. Look at that hair and the look on her face. Oh my.
But she quickly came around when she found out there would be swimming involved! Swimming and chatting with friends on her phone.
We spent the majority of the day swimming and snacking by the pool. We also played a game where we threw a ball into the pool's volcano over and over. We had tons of fun!
That night we headed over to Downton Disney. Actually it WAS called Downtown Disney but there have been renovations and they added fancy stores so now it's called Disney Springs. We decided to go to T-Rex Restaurant again. It has good food and we knew we could get a reservation. Also it was loud so we wouldn't have to worry about the kids throwing loud fits. So that's a plus too! Tommy was super excited about the meteor showers. Charlotte... not so much.
Charlotte enjoyed the Discovery Dig where you can unearth dinosaur fossils. She had tons of little rocks in her shoes for days.
I tried to snap a picture of the kids in front of the Paleo Truck. No chance Tommy was going to let that happen. :)
Charlotte rode a baby Triceratops! Whee!!
Tommy insisted we get a picture of our table which was INSIDE a BIG triceratops!! Sweet!!!
After dinner, we walked over the the Lego store. Charlotte was roaring in front of the Lego Maleficent dragon in this picture. ROARRRR!!
Then she wanted to pose with Aurora in front of the Disney store.
Then she started to get really good at it and posed with Cinderella! Fabulous!
We had so many bags by the end of the evening. One bag had cupcakes from Erin McKenna's Bakery NYC. Allergy-free deliciousness! Wow, were those cupcakes awesome! Yum! We had an awesome night just walking around Downton Disney. Hehe.
While we were waiting for Andrew to get another Christmas present, the kids started dancing the song that was blaring. You can see Charlotte's brand new nightgown. I looked at the princess dresses they had for sale and they were like $70-80. Holy Moses. But Charlotte was super excited to get a pretty nightgown instead. Plus it was an Aurora nightgown. Win!
But anyway, look at this dancing duo. The talent is strong with these two!! I think I have watched this video a thousand times. I laugh every single time. So funny.
We stayed WAYYYYY too late at the Magic Kingdom on Tuesday (midnight, to be exact) so we decided to take it easy on Wednesday instead of getting up early and going back to the Magic Kingdom again. It was Tommy T's birthday so we decided other plans would be better.
Tommy wanted to swim on his birthday so that's exactly what we did. It was the best weather that week. Perfect for swimming. The sun was out! It made all the difference. The only people in the pool were us Hoosiers and some people from Philadelphia.
Later we went to the park to play. We go swimming in our swimsuits and then wear sweatshirts to the park. Ha!
We went to Downtown Disney for shopping and dinner. We went to T-Rex for dinner, right up Tommy's alley. They had a great dino dig in the front of the restaurant.
They had a pterodactyl flying in from the ceiling and a mastodon on our other side. Just like Rain Forest Cafe, they had a meteor shower every 20 minutes. Tommy loved it!
We got Charlotte to wear her dino hat for 2.3 seconds!
After dinner, the wait staff came and sang to Tommy for his birthday.
They brought him an allergy-friendly dessert. Raspberry and peach sorbet! You can see it to his right.
He was not comfortable with the peach sorbet because he thought it looked too much like real ice cream. So we took it off his plate and he was happy to eat the raspberry by itself. Too funny. Charlotte wanted the peach sorbet in front of her!
Tommy LOVED his dessert. What a treat!
Our waitress took our family picture. Not the greatest picture but it's not a Disney Photopass Professional so what did we expect? :)
We had a great time at Downtown Disney for Tommy Hawk's birthday. He had 2 parties before this but now he's officially 4 years old!! What a great way to celebrate!
