It's Magical

How does Disney World do it?  They make you start thinking about your next trip back before you are even finsihed with your vacation!  Oh, how we LOVE taking the kids here.  Mind you, it is not cheap.  But Memories are made and i think Matt and I (although utterly exhausted) have almost as much fun as the kids do!  We got an extra special treat this year to get to spend a few days at Disney with our cousins.  What a treat.  I think those days were our kids favorite.  We rode everything and then, we rode it again.  Spending time as a family in a magical place that somehow makes adults feel like a kid again.  I know we did.  The kids did great.  We left Avery with my mom, because I am not to keen on taking 2 year olds to Disney! It was Grays first trip and the other 3 have been one other time.  We got to do another first.  An airplane ride.  What an adventure that was.  We flew out of Atlanta, because we dropped Avery off first and that airport is a tad more challending than Birmingham.  This may have been the most challenging part of the whole trip.  Trying to get through security and make our way to our gate, which we almost missed.

  All in all we arrived to the most magical place on earth and had an amazing vacation!  We are blessed.

Just try to leave....

Matt and I have this problem in our family and it seems to happen EVERY SINGLE TIME we try to go out of town for vacation.   Now... it is just comical!  Something will always try to keep us from going out of town, weather by ourselves or with the kids.  Usually it is an act of nature that will keep us from leaving when we would like to.  Hurricanes, Tornado's, Snow (yes!  in Alabama--which hardly ever happens, unless we go out of town) high winds, heavy rain.
Around 5 pm the night before we are suppose to leave on a family trip to Disney.  Bags almost packed, kids excited, getting all the last minute preparation into place, when Avery comes in with Matt holding a bottle of pills.  Frantic, Matt states that he found Avery eating my pills.  She has white chalky residue all over her face and I have her spit out into my hand whatever she is chewing.
We call poison control, who instructs us to go to Children's Emergency Room downtown.  REALLY?
We finish dinner, because that is what you do when it is a fifth child, and I load Avery up in the car and head downtown.
We arrive and they immediately take Avery back to hook her up to an IV , monitor her heart rate and take some blood.  I see intern after intern after intern until finally the Doctor comes in.  We are informed that the medicine she took can start to cause issues 24-36 hours after digestion, so they need to keep Avery overnight to monitor her.  The problem was we didn't know how much she actually ate!
I call Matt to tell him the joyous news that we will be spending the night at Children's and not able to check out until 6 the next day, which will mean we miss our flight to Disney that is paid for!
AHHHHHH---We work it out with my in-laws who will come and be there with Avery when they discharge her and we will head to Disney as planned.  Matt comes to the hospital to do a parent swap!  I head home to finish packing and try to figure out how I am going to pull this off.
The next day comes!  Older kids to school as usual and I call Matt to check on Avery.  They are sending her home!  All her levels improved over night and since they are only seeing improvement-she can come home!
WHAT A WHIRLWIND!  But, we are back on schedule to get on with our vacation.
This is another one to add to the book of how we cannot escape out of town without a major intervention of chaos!

Here is our little pill popper asleep that night at Children's.  Poor Matt had to get the lecture from the Doctor the next day about not leaving medicines in reach of children!