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10/24/2005 Archived Entry: "sittin'"

Today is the first day in three days that I've sat. Friday we walked four miles then did the mall shopping for necessary clothing for all but myself. Chris needs interview shirts and ties (don't ask, I'm not prepared to go there yet), Tabitha needs jeans and winter PJs, Daisy needed seperates of pants and long sleeves because apparently when I decided I wanted all one piece outfits I wasn't thinking clearly at all. I guess all that should be changed to "needed" because they are all taken care of, though Chris could stand another shirt and tie. I think the girls are okay. I need clothing, but not as critical as they did so it was all about them.

Saturday, Chris and I were supposed to go see Foozer, as in the Foo Fighters and Weezer with Hot, Hot, Heat. Well, the Wee Miss doesn't like me out of her sight. She was clingy, cranky, whiny, you name it, she was it. There was no way I could leave her that night. I'm pretty sure she would have cried a huge amount of the time. So, we decided not to go. It was a hard decision but we feel it was the best one. After I called my mom to tell her, she was our sitter, we talked about it a bit and got the idea in our head to use our Halloween Treat tickets. We had planned to give them to my bil but he couldn't go afterall so we still had our original tix. We decided to do it and dressed up Tabi, bundled up Daisy and headed out after dinner. We had a really good time. Not 100% what we expected, but it was really nice to have the luxury of time knowing we're still going this Thursday as well. Tabitha managed to hit all 13 treat stations, hula hooped, danced and visited with characters.

Sunday we went to the Movieland Wax Museum as it is closing it's doors forever next week. I have so many fond memories that we had to make one last trip. Many, many people had the same idea. It was so packed and the line moved at a snail's crawl. The whole visit was one big line. I had hoped to buy something like a magnet or something with the name Movieland Was Museum, but the gift shop was insane. That's what 50% off will do to people. So all I got were my memories and pictures of the figures that meant something to me, like the Gone With the Wind scene. I had fun pointing out the Tabitha "See that house? That's where my name came from. See that man? That's who your aunt is named after. " Still grateful I'm not named Scarlett.

After the wax museum we ate lunch in the car and then went to Disneyland. I'm a glutton for punishment I guess considering that I had been carrying Daisy non-stop for three days at that point. She wouldn't let Chris carry her and she wouldn't let me use any carriers. I had to be holding her in my arms at all times. I'm still paying for that with a pretty severe back ache.

But I digress.

Disneyland was amazing in a bizarre way. We went specifically to see if the Villains were out since it's getting close to Halloween. We were told they weren't coming this year, which is disappointing to say the least. But, it was still a character-palooza. Tabitha sees her old friend Alice sitting at some tables with Suzy and Mad Hatter. They were drawing pictures and Tabitha joined in. Within minutes, Wendy joined the group. Then Bert and Mary and a Penguin decided to join in as well. Cinderella walked by with her prince and Fairy Godmother was nearby as well. Bert organized the kids into a sort of project. He had them finish their drawings, then taught them all how to fold their pictures into birds, origami basically. Then, everyone marched in a line over to the Walt Disney and Mickey "Partners" statue and placed their birds at the foot of the statue and said a thank you to Walt. Very sweet and very touching.

Tabitha and Bert had been chatting back when they were making the birds and after the thank you, Bert asked Tabitha if she'd like to ride the carousel. Of course the child said yes. So off she went with Bert and Mary Poppins skipping between them while each of them held her hand. At one point they went through the castle with Bert and Mary singing Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. They had their ride on the carousel and just before they got off, I headed to the baby area to change Daisy. I expected Chris and Tabitha to be waiting for me when I exited. Nope, they had both been pulled into the Sword in the Stone ceremony with Chris being the joke guy who can't pull out the sword and then Tabitha being picked to pull out the sword and named Temporary Ruler of Disneyland. I showed up just as the show ended. Thankfully, the camera had been handed to a nice family, so I still have pictures even though I wasn't there.

At this point we were walking out to head to California Adventure. On the way we said hi to Fairy Godmother again and then Tabitha wanted to show Alice her medal for pulling the sword. Alice was in the middle of a game, but had Tabitha come closer to watch. Once all that was done, she invited Tabs to go dancing at the Club Buzz stage in Tomorrowland. She said she'd meet her there so we went over there and Tabitha saw Wendy again and chatted with her and mentioned she was waiting for Alice. Wendy suggested she dance with her while she waited so they went to the dance floor where Buzz was already grooving. Funny to see my kid dance to songs that came out when I was 4, like Mickey by the Go-Gos and YMCA. Eventually Alice and the Wonderland gang came over and more dancing was accomplished. Tabitha worked up quite the sweat. Let me tell you, the Queen of Hearts was quite the dancer, too.

By the time all this was done and we headed home, it was about 2 and a half hours later than we had planned. Whew! But a good day :)

Today, Daisy was replaced by a child who enjoyed playing by herself and didn't whine once. After being held for three days, I guess she was tired of me. Tabitha's Halloween activity was watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." My activity was eating all the Halloween cookies, lol.