Disney on Ice

We got tickets for Disney on Ice and took the 2 little kids today.  I figured Emily would enjoy it, but was excited to introduce Vinnie to the experience and let him see Buzz.  I was surprised when earlier in the week Emily was saying that she didn't want to go and was asking if one of us could stay home with her and one could take Vinnie.

But as the day came Emily wanted to go, but I was worried that she wouldn't be able to as she has been fighting a fever.  No other symptoms, just a fever.  She woke up with a fever still this morning and she wanted to make sure she could still go and wanted to make sure that she wasn't going to ruin things for Vinnie.  But her fever stayed down with motrin so we made the decision to still go and to take her.

So we get there and the show starts and I was out getting snacks, but when I came back Vinnie was buried into Brian's shoulder and not exactly enjoying the show.  We had skipped the nap today and we thought he may have falled asleep at one point in time, but it certainly wasn't the fun time that I had envisioned him having.  He's always had a tendency to shut down when he gets overwhelmed by sights and sounds and today was proving to be more of the same.  Between no nap and the loud sounds and flashing lights, he was checking out.

I don't remember what changed, but Brian did get him engaged about a quarter of the way into the show.  Vinnie finally unburied himself and started watching and - dare I say - enjoying the show.

Brian did it just in time too, because one of the next groups on was the Toy Story group.  Vinnie was cute to see watch them.  He kept pointing and saying "Buzz!  Woody!  Jessie!"  It was well worth the trip.

And little Miss Emily who didn't even want to come watched it all and enjoyed every minute of it.  She was guessing what was coming next and correcting me when I was guessing wrong and explaining to me why I was wrong.  I was glad she felt okay and ended up enjoying herself even if she wasn't thinking that she would!

Oh and at the finale they had all the characters come out onto the ice and Vinnie was so cute trying to find Buzz, Woody and Jessie.  He would find them and point them out and then he'd lose sight of them and throw his hands up and ask, "Where'd go?"  It was cute.

It was a fun afternoon for all of us!