Week full of O-Town madness

This past week we went to Orlando for a Disney tournament.  I know I am sure some of you are seriously surprised... us traveling for a tournament?  Amazing and totally unexpected I know.

While in O-Town we took advantage of our (very) long week there and made our rounds of some of the parks.  We debated on doing EPCOT and Disney Studios, but after looking at all the attractions I thought Magic Kingdom and the water parks (or as Omi called them, the BIG pools) would probably be the best use of our time.  So yes basically this post is for the soul purpose of posting pictures.  Although I am really not going to go too nuts...

With that said, I have a cute little tad bit of a story which took place on our visit to the Magic Kingdom.  Ok, so don’t be judgy...Omi (as you all know) turned 3 in June.  He is proud as a peacock to not only be 3 years old, but show off in public that he KNOWS how old he is.  So of course, we are walking through the ticket gates and Omi being Omi is talking our ears off.  He is such parrot that one, all about everything and why and who.  When I had the lady at the gate our tickets and commence to push the two monsters in the stroller through the gates she asks me "How old is he?" as she motions to Omi.  Without hesitation I reply "He is 2."  Only to (of course) hear my dear oldest son’s rebuttal "I’m not 2, I’m 3 Mama!"  At that point I wanted the ground to just open up and swallow me- sadly it did not.  I than nervously said aloud "Not yet Papa, your birthday is soon."  I than proceeded to make a dash for it and run into the park before she could make us pay the $60 fee it would cost a THREE YEAR OLD to enjoy their delightfully expensive amusement park.  Thank  goodness she did not chase us into the park, I am pretty sure we were not the first guests to weasel our little toddler into the park.  But I did feel pretty rotten for being ousted.

The rest of our visit was not as controversial.  Although Omi did continue to say funny and spontaneous anecdotes. When he saw the parade coming with the lights his actual words were "I’m so excited, I want to do the hot dog dance!"  Aiden our less vocal child, also found himself screeching at the sight of Mickey Mouse who happens to be his FAVORITE. 

And now without further banter...

This picture was actually taken when we left Miami.  These kids love their Mickey ears.  Omi said he wanted to wear his backwards so that Mickey Mouse could see his name- lol!

These two little fire crackers are my world

 

These next sequence of pictures are probably the funniest I have from our week.  If not for Aiden’s Mickey ears you would never even know he was riding in the car!

  

Omi wanted to take Minnie home with him...Aiden was all about Mickey’s bow tie (although I didn’t capture it in pictures)

Ahhhh yes- no family picture is complete without Mommy closing her eyes, Aiden clearly not trusting Buzz Lightyear and of course Omi trying to avoid Buzz Lightyear’s crotch

I told you he is a character

And this little monster is not falling too far behind his brother

 

Where’s Omar(s)?

 

The little girl on the right ruined our family portrait...after this picture was taken I may have tripped her down the hill which led to the lazy river.  Next time she will think twice before creeping into another family portrait. 

Oh...and FYI we are going on a NON-baseball vacation this year.  In case you were concerned- I’m sure you were.  Hopefully I’ll have a minute to actually post before we leave August 16.