Disney Vacation 2014: Part 3 and Tommy's Birthday

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! 

Special Bonus: No puking at a theme restaurant unlike our Rain Forest Cafe Experience.  Vacation Redemption! 

Suuuuuper Quick Catch Up Post...

Ok folks. I haven't blogged in almost 2 months.  I barely remember how to do it.  So now I have to catch up... and catch up I will.  As Andrew and Samuel L Jackson say, "Hold on to your butts..." 

So what did we do in the last two months?? Well... 

 We went to a wedding with my parents of someone with whom I work.

 The kids had school pictures.

 We hung out with Wyatt, Harper and Everett.

We went to Burger King before Wyatt and Harper's b-day party.

 Even Andrew got in on the action.

The party was at a gym so all my pictures were blurry because there was so much action.  I got one that was sort of in focus at least!

 We had cupcakes! YUM!

 Wyatt and Harper did too! Super fun birthday party!

 Then we had T-burg Thanksgiving at our house!

Charlotte was a big fan of Thanksgiving!! YUM! 

 We also celebrated Tommy's birthday at Thanksgiving.  Dragon Party!

 On the Friday after Thanksgiving, my high school football team, the Renssy Bombers went to the State Finals.  THEY WON THE STATE 2A CHAMPIONSHIP! Charlotte cannot believe it!!

 It was awesome for so many reasons (such as this, and this and this this this...)

 It was a real high school reunion for many of the classes that graduated from RCHS.  We had over 6000 in attendance (more than the population of the town of Rensselaer) and people came from all across the country to see the Bombers play in the Luke.  People streamed the game online from several different countries and many, many states.  Very exciting.

The next day we set up our Christmas tree!

 And Charlotte had some yogurt!!

 We had Christmas with the Keipers at my parents where Tommy celebrated his birthday again!

 Tommy got a new chair as one of his gifts and Charlotte decided it was hers.

 Tommy had his own little glow stick party.

I temporarily considered using this as my Christmas card this year.

How does one get into a situation like this at Target, Miss Charlotte?

Final picture of the super quick round up... Uncle Adam took Tommy for a ride in a Target bag!

Ok so that was the catch up post... Now it's on to DISNEY! Stay tuned!!