Hello October! | Magic Kingdom Memories & Happy Health Update

Good morning. Weekly vlog. I hope you enjoy today's video. It's not melting outside, so we are... There's coffee in the morning. No! Baby's even out here. There's rain. Aw. It was an accident, Teddy. It's wet. Here, try it on my shirt. Alrighty. I'm at the gym and Peter had the music, so when I got in the car, I listened to the radio. And I would have missed out on a little Irish Goo Goo Dolls jam session, hit or not. So thank you, Peter, for having the music, and also your reminder to listen to the radio. I just feel like it's something that I used to only do before auxiliary chords and such, and it's such a good way, for me at least, and perhaps if you have a loved one on the other side, to have... For my parents to show up through songs on the radio, I just feel like that's one of the key ways that I have connected with them. So your reminder. Comment below if you end up listening to the radio today. What? Look at those ducks. I was all excited to see Thanksgiving stuff, and I haven't got Christmas. We are at BJ's, just me and the Middle East, for a little adventure. We are at Disney Springs now. We're just getting out of the house. If you watched last week's vlog, you'll know we had a weird week. And so Fresh Air was calling us. This used to be Sprinkles, and now it's Jiri Deli! Yes! In real time, I'm finding this out. Holy smokes! I had no idea that Sprinkles was becoming a Jiri Deli. And naive me actually checked to see if they were giving out free samples. And we have made it to our destination. Oh! Okay, we are treading lightly with our first outing post-illness. So, Dollar Tree it is. They look like a happy family. Should I look at them over here? Let's get out of here. So this is what we're actually here for. Finding them online, they're going to be like $20. And I find this is such a good way to keep the kitchen really festive throughout the whole month of October. And this is really nice tablecloth. I just have to pick out the pattern I want. They have these at Walmart too. But I wanted to check out their selection this year because last year we kept it up the whole month. It's called Piva, the Wipe Clean Tablecloths. If you have watched Bluey before, you will know Branda Santa. That's what they're playing. It's a great game because when you're not Santa, you get to pretend you're sleeping. Happy Monday. My postpartum hair is doing its thing, so don't mind that. Mondays, usually, and I think I might have said this before, but every week is a little different. I try for Mondays to be really low-key, be a reset, unless we absolutely have to. It helps me mentally over the weekend, given my job is to be a stay-at-home mom. That job never stops. Over the weekend, of course, Peter is here. That brings me so, so much relief. It's just totally different with it being teamwork. Even during the week, Peter and I's teamwork is probably one of our biggest strengths as humans. But anyways, Mondays are hard. I really like for my Mondays to be reset days. I try to get the toys in a better place. I try to just lay out what we have to do for the week. I have this little, what's this called? My race board. I lay out on here who's doing drop-offs, any appointments we have, and what we're having for dinner. We actually have a lot of appointments this week. We'll talk more about that later. The baby's down for his first nap. I'm going to fill this out and kind of just baseline Monday reset. That's the expectation for the day. Where are we going, James? This way. But what park? We're going Magic Kingdom. You're right. What ride are we going to go on? Buzz! Yeah, and we're going to get some... What? Ice cream. Yeah! Do you like Daddy Dix? Yes, but it's hot. I know, we'll get some ice cream to cool off. Okay. Do you got water? I do have water right here in this water bottle. I'm so excited to be going on this daddy date with you. Yes! Should we go monorail or boat? Um, monorail. Yeah! Okay, James wanted to start the night off with two simple asks. Buzz Lightyear and Strawberry Frozen Lemon Cups. Not in that order. Actually, in the reverse order. He wanted a Lemon Cups first, Strawberry, and then Buzz Lightyear. Lines aren't looking terrible, but we are 0 for 2 in looking for the Strawberry Frozen Cups. But, a cast member gave me a little heads up, it might be the one off the Jungle Cruise, and once they said that, I was like, you know what, I think that's true. I think that's real. I feel like I remember doing this before, because that's James' go-to dessert. Here we are. Jungle Cruise. Carts. We've got the Strawberry Frozen Cups. Success. I don't think I've ever gotten a frozen banana for my own self. This is gonna be good. How's the frozen strawberry? Good. Are you in a rocking chair, James? You know, Mommy and Daddy used to sit here all the time, waiting for you guys to show up, like the elephants in I Wish. Oh! Now... This is some kind of feeling right here. This is lemon. Yeah. And you got me. Yeah, I do got you. It makes me so happy. You said you wish come true. Yeah, you and your brothers are a wish. You said, I want to have a baby with Nick James. Yes, and Teddy. And then it would rain, and it would rain, and he'd come back. Wow, is this a good time? I think so. Sometimes I don't trust wait times. This says 45, but the line's not outside. You like this ride, James? Yes! So we'll see where the line actually starts. It's always a good sign when the line's not outside the hallway. But where does it truly begin? Still don't see anybody. Still... Ooh, okay. 30 minute wait for Peter Pan's flight. We will take it. Take seatbelts, and off we go! Woohoo! Wendy, no! Yay, they won. As we got in line for Winnie the Pooh, thinking we were going to win all the prizes, Winnie the Pooh went down. And Winnie the Pooh is usually a quick one to come back, but I was waiting, waiting, waiting. We waited like five minutes, and I saw some coordinators come out. They were giving like fast passes out to clear out the queue, so we were at the end, so we just, we filed out. The waits aren't bad elsewhere. Plus, it's just, it's a daddy date, so we're just having some vibes and conversations and hanging out, so. We are going to go to Buzz and see how long that line is by the time we get there. If it's not bad, we'll do it. If it is, we'll do a people mover. For it not to be swelteringly humid, feels good. We are heading into Star Command now. 25 minute wait for Buzz Lightyear. I've only been on this one version, new updated version once, so I'm not going to vlog it, because I want to try to get Galactic Hero on this new version, because I failed miserably last time. Astro Aviator, Cosmic Commando. Alright, we're getting there, James. High five, good job. You won, babe, you won. We won, we both won. We won together. Fun fact, one of James' favorite rides, Marlin Speedway. And it's a less than five minute wait. We call that a walk-on. Well, it is not. Every day we do these daddy dates, especially in this busy, busy, busy season of life, but these kids are only little for this season of life, so we were going to go home, and James said, what about Dumbo? And I just can't say no. So, we're going to run to the restroom. I'm going to try to delay it a little bit, because we are ten minutes away from fireworks and five minute Dumbo time. But that would be kind of cool to be on Dumbo with James during the fireworks. That's magical. So, I'm kind of dragging my feet a little bit. The popcorn stand right here closed down. I was going to get a pretzel or something, you know. A little munchy munch. But, we are going to do it. And then we're going to head home after Dumbo. He's just getting so old. He's my big kid this way. I've never worked attractions, but nobody's been in the standby line for a while, and I thought Dumbo was just closed down. But I think that's because nobody's in line. They're just not running. I would have just thought they would have continued running it empty, but I guess not. But, five minute timer for Happily Ever After. I think fireworks are going to start in just seconds now. Seconds. Can it go off? Yes, it can. James, we couldn't have timed it more perfectly. The fireworks are starting. Woo! Do you hear it? Happily Ever After. We're about to do it. Oh my gosh. The cast member when we were walking in was like, wait, first ride? And she was like, congratulations! Right this way, Mom and Dad. Can you believe it? I truly can. I really can. That's because he's a sleepy kid. His eyes are open now. Here you go! James, you're on your first ride! Yay! Come on, Jamesy. Wow, I don't know if this has ever happened so smoothly. We walked out, walked right onto the ferry without stopping, and James requested the second floor. And because we don't have a stroller, we can't. Fireworks still going off. We were on Dumbo and the fireworks started. Fireworks are still going on and we are on the ferry. This is pretty great. Perfect way to end a Daddy Jamesy day. Happy Tuesday. We started our day at Saratoga Springs. We actually hung out for a bit in the lobby and saw the horses and watched Mickey shorts and then we went around the shop and just followed Charlie around. We ate snacks and Georgie had a bottle and we colored and it was such a nice morning. We bopped around the resort until I had an eye doctor appointment and everything went well so we didn't have a ton of time but just enough to go to a local Once Upon a Child. We went to Spirit of Halloween. We need to get some clothes for our trip. But anyways, ever since I found that Pokemon sweatshirt for James and Teddy, of course, expressed that he wanted one, I have just been on the lookout. That is my goal. At least before the trip. My turn. What you doing Daddy? Just about to drink some prep for EGD and colonoscopy tomorrow. So what's the deal? I don't know. The deal is I have to tell you the whole history because we weren't vlogging really. I've had a weird side pain for like 18 months. It started like 18 months ago. We went through like 5-6 months of getting CT scans, MRI, x-rays. They thought it was a bit of intersecession. I got an ultrasound. I was set to have a colonoscopy and EGD last year but the pain went away last October. And so I cancelled all that. And I promised Sarah if it came back that we would 100% no matter what get all those things done. Well about 6 months ago the pain came back. Yeah I can hold you. About 6 months ago all the pain came back. So now we are. Here's the day. Tomorrow. It is. Ready? 1, 2, 3. I love you Daddy. I love you Daddy. Everybody was asleep. But now everyone woke up. So I don't know the last time I vlogged this week. It's been a week but you know what? We're doing a good job. We are doing the next right thing. But me and the two littles are here to get Peter from his procedure. We had an early drop off. And then had to get the kids ready for school. School drop off. And now we're back. Woah. Is that a good sign or a bad sign? So from where we are you can see the hot air balloon at Disney Springs. We're closer. Like we're really close to SeaWorld right here. Also I looked it up. One girl is a bad sign. However, I went to go take a picture of it and it disappeared. But then I saw another one. And then I saw the other one came back around the corner. So there was two. First there was one and then there was two. So I'm going to take it as a good sign. Because we have to take the bad signs with the good signs. You can't just believe in the good. But we saw two. I was nervous for a second. Woah. From this side you can see Volcano Bay. Some Whole Foods fun. Pretend like we're in the city after my procedure. That went swimmingly. Thanks. Standard biopsies were taken but nothing was found. So we are appreciated after this 18 month journey. Nothing makes me want to move back to the city this second. Been strolling the Whole Foods. Getting a cute little snack lunch. With a baby and a carrier on me. It's the best. Just the vibes and the energy feels very city like. And I'm here for it. Also very thankful that this procedure finally happened after 18 months and that it all looks clear. Here's our little Whole Foods haul of snacks. This is a Gouda dip. We got a little sun dried tomato situation. And hot bar, falafel, dolmas and mac and cheese. Hello. I'm here editing the vlog and wanted to pop in and just see how you are liking the What We Had For Dinner This Week edition that we've been sharing. It's a little different than anything we've really done, especially with my Cook With Me's. And so basically I'm asking if you would like to see more of the food or maybe if you're interested in something I share comment below and maybe I'll do a Cook With Me if enough people seem interested or ask for a particular meal. I don't know. It's just kind of different. And I want to say I've been enjoying still sharing even if it doesn't mean full force step by step. But I would be happy to share more if you want. So the food this week, we actually, Saturday we were still like getting on our feet after we were like sick thought we were all good and then we weren't. So Saturday was a little like I honestly think we ate peanut butter and jelly. So this food starts on Sunday. We had steak and egg bowls with beans and potatoes and then on Monday we had leftover red sauce. I made like a little parmarosa sauce on pasta. Then we had the same exact thing Tuesday and Wednesday. I don't know if I'm going to have enough time to say what it is. It's like ground chicken, loaded potato with corn salsa, avocado tomato. There it is. And ended Friday with steak sandwiches. I realized I did not show Thursday. We had our like typical Friday, Friday McDonald's on Thursday. Peter was doing his prep and just wanted to make things as simple as possible the night before his procedure. So I did forget to show that. So another week of meals. Honestly last week with all the appointments what we needed to keep it simple but I've actually followed this account on TikTok who gives a lot of inspiration for whole food meals and that's where my brain is at right now. So that's what I hope to share and again comment below if you are interested too and maybe there will be some more food content coming soon. Good job Emma making our kids lives very special. So we follow a YouTube account called Darling Desi and she last year did like a kickoff to fall. I don't know if it was even last year. We found her channel. She loves the seasons and we like the idea that she had where it was like October 1st. I don't even know if she's married to her partner or not. They like exchanged little gifts and they like had a full day of like going to get festive drinks. They lived close enough to Salem right where like they were able to make a day there. We happen to live in a very festive place. So last year we went to like the celebration pumpkin patch and got drinks and so we our very first year we did it was last year and it's nice because it's super simple. We haven't we don't exchange gifts but we just got these fun things to make tomorrow extra special. I like doing it at like the first October weekend so we can really enjoy the day but maybe sometime it'll be October 1st but I like it for our family and I like we're doing it a second year. Yeah. So we're going to sign off for this week's vlog right now but it's nice to show the setup of what we have going on and then in the next vlog you'll see our fun kickoff day to October. So we're gonna let them put the window clings up and then last year we ended with making like fun popcorn with like extra festive treats. I'll probably even put like chocolate chips but we have puff popcorn for the little ones and then the tablecloth they'll be able to color here's the final setup here. We added some bats over here and over there and I want them to like tell me where they want more bats. What was the vlog this week? I'm very proud of the setup. I'm very proud of it too. You should be very proud. Well I also want to say that it's all like streamers again construction paper like when did you make that? The construction paper when you were out on a run but yeah it looks really fancy but like humble means and I think it's like the perfect first grade 90's first grade Halloween. Like a 90's first grade teacher made that. And also just like making life special with like you don't need all the bells and whistles all the time. Funny is our plan was to go to Epcot in the first thing in the morning and now we think we're switching on for a couple reasons but one of them being like our kids are going to be too excited for that. Just a weird reflection of our life of like our children are going to be too excited for that and our fun extraordinary ordinary Halloween to go to experimental prototype community of tomorrow. The most like like what is the I don't even know what this statistic Statistics. The criminals from the statistics. The criminals from the statistics. Walt Disney World is a sought after vacation destination. Yeah. In the world. Yeah. It's good to be home. We know what our goals are. We know what we hope to accomplish. And believe me it's the most exciting and challenging assignment we've ever tackled at Walt Disney Productions.