Our Disney Vacation-Day 1 Animal Kingdom

This was our Cabin at Fort Wilderness Resort

The night we got in we went to Chip N Dales Campfire Sing Along

Ayla got her Autograph book so we would be ready for day 1

Ayla was not amused with these characters...

Some guy singing

Entrance to Animal Kingdom

Daddy and Ayla-taking a break

Us with the "Tree of Life"

Grandpa and Grandma on the dinosaur ride

Ayla getting her "unicorn" face painting

Us with "Minnie"

Daddy & Ayla with Goofy

Grandma and Ayla killing time before dinner

Ayla fell asleep during treatments with her "squirt"stuffed animal from the Nemo show....it was a busy 1st day!

Animal Kingdom was a lot of fun, we saw the Nemo show and Ayla, Larry and his parents rode the safari ride.  Which she loved.  They suggested pregnant women not ride, so I sat out.  Which was alright with me because I noticed my ankles swelling a lot.  It was overcast on day 1 which was very nice, it even rained before we left the park.  We left and went back to the room to get ready for dinner at Trail's end buffet, we enjoyed it!

Living Images Appointment

I made an appointment with a place called Living Images that does Ultrasounds in our area.  We wanted to get another look at our baby girl so badly!  I was so glad we went, we got lots of great shots and Ayla got to see her sister! 

Baby Girl Tucker 22 weeks

Definitely baby girl!

Isn't she beautiful?!!!

Us with the Grandmother's

Our Family of 4!

This is really the last post before we leave for our trip, I promise!

 ~krista

Disney Bound

We are heading to Disney World Tuesday morning with our family and Ayla's Grandparents.  This is the first vacation for our family.......well......ever! I have such a hardworking, motivated, entrepreneur of a husband that vacationing has taken a backseat to growing our family business these last few years.  But boy are we excited!
We are staying on property in the Cabins at the Fort Wilderness Resort, we are all staying together for 5 nights.  I am going to be trying my best to document every moment of this trip with Ayla.  We wanted to take her on a special trip just for her before the baby came and what better idea than Disney!  This child is going to FREAK-OUT, each tall building we see-she asks: "Is that Disney World"-she has no idea what's ahead.
We have been so blessed this past year in so many ways......and being able to take this trip is yet another.....so I will be taking a break from blogging for the next 6 days.....
Pray for me to survive the heat and to ingest as much H2O as possible....This place is going to be crazy packed and crazy hot!

~Krista

Update: Decision

So I went with my "gut" and chose option A.  I really feel good about it, I took Ayla with me to get her all signed up and she was really excited.  Like I mean really excited-I was so glad to see that.  She will attend school on Tues, Wed, & Thurs from 9-230 each week.  This will make our weekends long and even allow for quick out of town trips.
We still have a few of the details to discuss about the enzymes, but I'm going to be packing them in her lunch and her teacher will get her lunch down for her and watch her take her pills.  I'm really excited she will get the full experience from this place and we all have a schedule that works for us!

Thanks for all the suggestions, I really appreciate them!

~krista

Decisions, Decisions

Help!!!

I got a call today from another VPK provider in our area that I had Ayla on the wait-list at.  They had an opening and are holding a space for her and want to meet with me tomorrow for my decision. This provider was high on my list and these are the pro's and con's of each:

Option A:
PRO's

• This provider is highly recommended
• Ayla has even played there before during smaller meetings a couple times a month-so she is familiar.  
• Christian based 
• 3day a week (W,Th,Fri) 
• School offers more the "complete" experience

CON's

• Larger group of kids/bigger classes
• Day's are longer and includes lunch
• Administering Enzymes 

Option B:
PRO'S

• Montessori Type learning
• Highly recommended
• Smaller Classes
• Shorter day, no lunch

CON'S

• 5 day a week program 

The weekly schedule is probably the most important aspect to me, I have been really struggling with having her out of her home environment 5 days a week and having to administer all of her treatments so early in the mornings.  I feel like she might not get enough sleep, with the way things have gone lately-we can't get treatments done before 9-930 at nights.

Not saying I can't get on a better routine, her life is so structured in so many uncontrollable ways that it would be nice to not have to kill ourselves to get things done quickly so often

So any opinions would be helpful-I have 24 hours to make this decision....Such a BIG decision!!

Our little Architect

Daddy got her the 400 pc Lego set for treatment time! They create real works of Art together!

Sleep-over's????

I was laying in bed the other night thinking about how tired I was from the day's to-do's.  I was going over all the things we CF parent's have to do to try and keep our kids healthy and more importantly...."Did I forget anything?"

My mind went to thinking about sleep-over's for Ayla and how that would look.  And would it be worth all the work that goes into actually getting her there and trying to tell a mother/grandparent all they need to know, better yet write a detailed list with all that goes into a night for Ayla.

I think this is where I drifted off to sleep because it made me so tired to think about it.....I think I need to hold a seminar at my house for each of the grandparent/mother's that will allow them to watch everything I do for a day and take their own notes for the times they may need to take over.

It's so nice to have people in Ayla's life who are willing to help when needed....Now we just need to take them all to CF-school :0)

~krista