Downtown Disney with Ya-Ya

Facing her fear at the new restaurant at Downtown Disney, "T-Rex." First time we stopped in, she cried and hid from the dinosaurs. Now she wanted to prove to her Aunt Ya-ya, that she was no longer afraid :-)

Making potato heads at the toy store...Katelyn told Ali, "now we need to meet each other" and the potato heads are introducing themselves.


Katelyn and Ali create potato head dolls...loved all the hands-on tables in the toy store. K spent a long time at the my little pony one.

Brady, Kate, Buzz, and Ya-ya.

Katelyn and I pose with Buzz.


Brady in jail after trying to escape the splash pad for the last time...not happy with me!!


Katelyn and Brady have the large splash pad to themselves and loved it!


What baby doesn't love water...even if it's just a puddle???


One of K's favorite places...Basin...smelling soaps at Downtown Disney


My sister Ali, AKA "ya-ya" (that's how she used to see her own name and it's stuck, katelyn and brady don't know her by any other name) met us at Downtown Disney Thursday morning. We haven't been down there in months (avoiding all tourist areas in the summer....crowds + heat = cranky me), but DD is empty in the mornings. We grabbed a coffee and K and B went wild at the empty splash pad. I let Brady go in his clothes and he just crawled, splashed, and laughed. He was even busted looking at an empty mickey-mouse shaped hole and then water would blast into his face...and he really didn't mind at all. After about 15 min, he realized he could wonder off the splash pad and crawl far away, so I spent quite some time carrying him back to the splash pad before he was removed and changed and strapped into his stroller. Katelyn in the mean time had a blast running around, collecting water in a bucket, and then making a new friend named Jenny.
We got some lunch at our spot, The Earl Of Sandwich (awesome place! and on the cheaper side for disney!), then walked around the shops. Brady fought sleep and was a bit cranky and pitched his pacifier at some point and lost it. He crashed on the way home, then slept another 2 hrs, before I had to wake him at 4pm and he was back in bed for the night at 6pm. Talk about worn out!!! We seriously had a great time and we're so glad Ali is so close in Tampa!