Day 2, Pt. 1: Magic Kingdom's Bippity Boppity Boutique

Since we made the decision to go to Disney, I knew exactly what I wanted to do for Chloe's birthday. Even though we were going a month prior to her birthday I wanted to celebrate down there and give her the "royal treatment." For Chloe's birthday from my parents and us, she received a princess transformation at the Bippity Boppity Boutique in Cinderella's Castle. She knew she was getting this present. Each night before we left we would talk about what she was getting and which princess she was going to dress up as. Ever night it was the same princess, Ariel. She was so excited and kept asking me if they were going to turn her hair red too.

Chloe and Grandma walking towards the Castle for our appointment. Let me just state that it was only 40 degrees this morning.

Here Chloe is holding a "magic mirror" while she is getting sprayed with special princess spray that gets ride of knots. Let me just say I so want one of those mirrors.

Here you can see Chloe's Fairy Godmother in Training and the Make up Fairy Godmother. She was really getting the royal treatment with having two Godmother's work on her.

She even got to pick her own nail polish and eyeshadow.

Crooked smile while getting her princess bun perfected.

Of course every princess needs some fair dust to complete the transformation and of course to make it work the Fairy Godmother had to recite, "bippity boppity boo."

Princess Chloe getting her birthday sash.

Closing her eyes for the reveal!

Checking Princess Chloe out for the first time. Notice the "hidden" mickey in her hair?

Okay, so remember how I told you the months leading up to being at Disney she was going to be Ariel, well the moment we got there she switched to Belle. I was shocked. (and just so you remember it was only 40 degrees that morning so the long sleeve shirt was a must! But no she did not leave her princess shoes on.)

Of course every Princess needs a picture with the "real" Fairy Godmother.

P.S Cheryl, this is for you, because I know you are wondering. Yes making this post did make me cry.

Arrival At Disney World

This is the entrance to Walt Disney World.

Look at the smile on her face!!

After we got unpacked at our hotel (The Beach Club Villas) we headed to Epcot to get the Monorail to the Magic Kingdom. Along the way we meet Daisy.

Mom and Dad with Daisy.

And Stich, Grandpa is in the picture with Chloe and Caelyn.

Next we headed to the Magic Kingdom.

Because we promised two VERY excited little girls their first ride could be on Cinderella's Carousel.

Caelyn talked about riding the carousel the entire drive down.

The we headed to the ride "It's a Small World."

After dinner at the Liberty Town Tavern, we walked out to find the Castle looking like this, which means one thing.

FIREWORKS!!

Chloe was a very happy little girl on her first day at Disney.

St. Baldricks Foundation

I am very proud of a choice my husband has made. He is participating in this years St. Baldrick's Foundation fundraiser at Helen Fitzgerald's Irish Pub on March 5 at noon.

I was introduced to this by a friend of mine, Kierstin. Their neighbors, the Long Family lost their son Charlie to neuroblastoma. He was diagnosed April 2004 and passed away September 2006. For two years Dave and I have donated to her husband's participation of this event. Last year after the event I mentioned to Dave about it and he was on board.

Not only did Charlie's fight touch me, but the fight of my cousins' son Gryphon touches me every day. I can't imagine what goes through Heidi and Tom's mind if he gets sick, or what they went through while he was getting treatment. But I know because of this foundation medical teams throughout the US are able to discover new ways to help fight this disease.

Currently one of my best friend's nephew is undergoing experimental treatment for his battle against neurofibromatosis and neuroblastoma. He is currently being treated by the National Cancer Institute Pediatric Oncology Center in Bethesda Maryland because here in St. Louis they have tried all the treatments that are available for him.

So if you could find it in your heart to help out this wonderful foundation, please go to Dave's page to donate. You can also click on the picture of the 3 boys (to the right) to go to Dave's page.

Every little bit will help him reach his goal, and it would be great for him to exceed it. Dave has a great heart and by him doing this shows it even more, not only is he honoring Charlie's life buy participating, he is supporting the medical field in finding a cure for Cameron as well as celebrating Gryphon's strength and triumph over his battle with cancer.

PS. If you come out of blogger, you will se a new blog design as well as the link in the side bar.

Penguin Painting

For MLK's birthday the girls and I got together with some of our friends to go to Your Pot's Desire for a book reading and pottery painting. The story was How BIG is a Million By Anna Milbourne (the book can be purchased here)The girls actually already have this book, so since I got two of them in the coast of the event I am planning to donate them to the girls' new class rooms at their preschool.

After the story the girls got a penguin to paint. They were allowed to pick up to 5 differen colors to paint with, Chloe of course picked pink and blues. All of those colors also had glitter in them. This is not my normal place that I go pottery painting at, but I will be going back just because of the paint options (I have also heard that Baked Goods Pottery have these glitter paints as well).


This was the first time I did something like this with the girls and I have to say I was happy with the outcome. They did really well. I was expecting them to be more of a mess but they were not. Caelyn was alittle messy but not as bad as I thought. You can really tell Caelyn enjoys painting because of how she took her time and really concentrated on her penguin. Not that Chloe didn't, but Caelyn deffiently has more patients for doing artsy things.

Don't worry, I am almost through all the Disney picutres which means I will be posting them soon. I will also be posting links for things that we did while there as well as a link to the Disney Photo Pass Pictures.

Chloe's Dance Holiday Party

Chloe and her teacher Ms. Ann(e)
I am sure my friend Cheryl could tell you the term for what she is doing but I can't even bend like that.

She is just so darn cute.

Sorry I am at an angle but it is still cute. This was the day of Chloe's dance holiday party.

Tea Party with Twinkle and Shimmer

Twinkle and Shimmer got hungry

Twinkle and Shimmer must have gotten hungry on their trip back from reporting to Santa. They stopped off at McD's to grab a bite to eat. They also were caught watching a movie when we got up that morning.