Museum School

In January, Abby started Museum School in Fort Worth.  She goes every Wednesday for two hours.  She has already learned so much and looks forward to it every week.  Next year Caroline gets to go, too! This week, Abby learned about raccoons.  A live raccoon was in the classroom and she was excited to report that it ate cantelope, blueberries, animal crackers and an egg while visiting.

A few weeks were spent studying space and I got to go on a field trip to the planetarium with Abby.  We put on our pretend spacesuits and blasted to the moon.  While we were on the moon, we found a moon rock.  Abby keeps it with her rock collection.  In this picture, she is showing her mini moon she made with clay and sand.

Last week, a live alligator came into the class.  Abby was proud to tell us she touched his leg and tail.  Here, she is pointing to where she hid her alligator's eggs.

 While Abby is in class, Caroline, Nonnie and I go on different outings in Fort Worth and sometimes Nonnie stays home with her for some one on one playtime.

 One week, Nonnie was out of town and Caroline and I had fun in the museum, which is next door to the school.

Although I tried my best to be Caroline's playmate, I am no substitute for her best friend, Abby.  We stayed after class for Abby to play in the museum with her.

 We spend a lot of time in Barnes and Noble!

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall . . .

Our second night in the parks, we ate dinner at Ariel's Grotto and met many of the princesses.  Ariel greeted us upon arrival and the other princesses came to our table throughout dinner.  As you can see by the costumes the girls picked, Ariel is Caroline's favorite princess.





 

 The girls were a little cranky after three exciting days and World War III broke out over a crayon as we sat down at our table.  We managed to play musical chairs and make it through dinner without any casualties.

 This was the view from our table.

 Ready to Meet Belle

 I was impressed with how personable the princesses were.

 Snow White seemed so sweet.



 Mulan and Jasmine

 

 The last day in the park we were at the castle when it opened to meet Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.

Abby said several times she needed Sleeping Beauty's autograph before heading home.  She is her very favorite princess! I was really relieved when we finally met her.

 At last, we met Cinderella! 

 A hug from this princess completed the trip!  We made some fantastic memories!  The girls ask all the time when we are going back.  Caroline keeps saying, "In three more days, are we going back to Disneyland?"  Thanks to Nonnie and Pops for planning and taking us!

Critter Country, Toon Town and Other Characters

Abby and Caroline had a lot of fun filling their autograph books with signatures of all their favorite characters.  I was surprised at their willingness to walk right up to the characters.  They were on a mission!

We saw Tigger and Pooh in Critter Country.  Piglet and Eor were having lunch.

We were eating dinner one night in Critter Country when the huge pirate ship sailed past our table.

 In Toon Town, we saw Mickey and played in his house.

 We also got to go through Minnie's house.

 

 Playing on Donald's Boat

 The last day, we saw White Rabbit and the Queen of Hearts.  The girls liked the rabbit, but were really scared of the Queen.

 We visited Tinkerbelle and her friend, Silver Mist, in Pixie Hollow.

The Cars Characters were rolling in California Adventureland.  I was so glad we watched most of the Disney movies the two months before our trip.  The characters would not have been very exciting to the girls had we not.  Our library had most of the classics and they became excited every week to see which movie we could check out.