A definite favorite day at Disneyland

It has been quite awhile since I last posted about Disneyland, so I'd say it's high time I took care of that!  Yesterday, we spent the afternoon and evening at our happy place, and I think it's safe to say that we have begun to find our new rhythm as a family of four...still some tweaking to take care of, but pretty good with two little kids!

Perfect place to spend a perfect day!  Geoffrey agrees.

Ridiculous how much I love all three of them.

Maddie and I went on the teacups for the first time together, after I had said last year that I will never have any interest ever again because my dad's spinning made me so woozy.  It was a blast!!  (Probably helped that we really didn't turn the wheel too much at all!)

"Hand's up, Mommy!!  Look at me, I'm driving!" (She really thought she was driving the teacup with her hands on the wheel in the center. Good thing she didn't know how to actually spin it!).

Priceless.

One of the best highlights of the day!  I loved this moment with my baby girl!

Geoffrey was konked out, but insisted we still have a fun time during his nap.  How sweet of him!

We took Geoffrey on the Zephyr ride at California Adventure - sort of by accident.  We thought we would be holding him on one of our laps, but that wasn't allowed.  They said he absolutely could still ride, just needed to be sitting in his own seatbelt.  You heard me. So our little man rode next to me, strapped into a flying contraption with nothing but a simple lap belt over his tiny, not well supported body.  It was really so much fun and we couldn't stop laughing throughout the ride!  I'm not sure we would have done it had we known this would be the arrangement, but we did, and he was a champ!!

Before the ride started - he was excited to be "on his own!"  He couldn't believe it, either!

Maddie and Daddy, sitting behind us.  Maddie was super tired and getting crabby, but she still "smiled" for the camera.

Are you seriously going to let me do this, Mommy?!  I can't even sit up on my own at home!!

Oooh.  This is cool!!  I like flying!

As we were flying, I tried to take a picture of us (don't look too closely, and remember we were mid flight, hence the crazyness).  Poor little man was gasping just a bit at all the air rushing at his little face.  He just stared out and sort of seemed to say, "Bring it on!" (Er, at least that's what I'm telling myself he was saying, and not, "For the love of man!! Get me off!!")

After the ride - we survived!!  I was so proud of him! :)

Perhaps the biggest news of our life right now is that Maddie has officially been potty trained!!  WOHOO!!!!!!!!  For the past 1 1/2 weeks, she has been a superstar with only a handful of accidents, that in hindsight, could have been avoided on my part.  We wanted to reward her for being such a big girl and so we surprised her with this special new Minnie Mouse backpack, as we were leaving the park.  Here she is, riding the tram, and SO excited about her new backpack.

(please excuse the odd lighting in this photo).  Our sweet girl has hardly let this back pack out of her sight in the 24 hours she has owned it.  She even had it laying on her pillow during nap time today. :)  She is so proud of it and so proud of her accomplishment.  I'd say she has a right to be!!

We had such a magical day as a family, and made many new memories.  People assume we must get tired of the same old thing, having been to Disneyland so many times.  Funny thing is, there is always something new to discover, and I think we do an excellent job and figuring that out each time we go.