Olive Loved Disneyland

Olive (and all of us) really had a great time at Disneyland. There is just something so fun about that place. I think so much of the fun for a parent is the anticipation and excitement of the kids. I can't wait for that. Even though Olive doesn't really remember, I know that she had the time of her life being there with family and spending time together.

Olive absolutely adored her Minnie ears. She went into the store and it was impossible to get her to leave because she wanted to try every single hat on. She wore them almost the entire trip and would ask for her "hat". Just recently she has figured out who Mickey and Minnie are and would say their names whenever she saw them. That ended up being about a million times a day since there are stuffed animals and figures and almost anything you can imagine in the shape of Mickey and Minnie at Disneyland. It really was pretty cute though.

This is how most of our family pictures were. We did go with lots of family but it seemed like when we wanted a shot no one was around. This is us waiting to get on the train, which at the end of the day, turned out to be a big mistake because it was so slow and Olive was melting down the entire time (until we got to the dinosaurs). Between alternating having one parent in the pic with Olive (because we also have a ton of those shots from this trip), I kinda like these type of self portraits.

Olive liked the concept of most of the rides and went on quite a few including Pirates and Haunted Mansion. We were pretty impressed.

Her stand out favorite was Small World. She Loved that ride. This is them while on the ride which is why it is so blurry. The first time she went on it she was silent, in awe. The subsequent times she jabbered nonstop pointing and bouncing in out laps out of excitement. It was awesome. She just couldn't get enough.

She loved chillin' in the O.

She loved the teacups and would scream every time we went past them. We started going the long way so she wouldn't see the ride.

Olive really loved Toon Town. We spent hours there while she ran around which was a relief after wrestling her in line.

She loved getting some freedom from being in the stroller all day!

Olive went nuts over all of the animals on the jungle cruise. We were very excited to take her on it because we knew it would be a hit.

Olive LOVED the parade. She loved everything about it, especially the part where she got to go out and dance in the street. I couldn't stop laughing.

She loved riding on daddy's shoulders and it's a good thing because that was the perfect way to keep her contained.
But more than anything she loved (as did everyone else) spending so much time with her cousins. We are so lucky to have so much family that are so close. Olive really loved her cousins and they adore her. It really warms my heart.

Here she is riding some rides with her cousin and just having a good time hanging out with them.



Olive did not love everything. Here are some things she did not love:
On almost every ride we went on Olive would be very very excited and we would get all strapped in and then the ride would start and these are the pictures we would get. Oh the horror on her face. every picture looks like we are torturing her and forcing her on these rides. When the ride was over we would ask her if she liked it and she would say yes and ask to go again. You would never tell from the pics.

Olive loved the carousels and would ask for the "ho-sies" and would then try to climb off. She like just sitting up high on the pretty horse, no need to go around in circles!


A kind of surprising melt down was when the pretend cars from Cars at the little photo opp. spot were not real cars. She was so frustrated and didn't understand why they were broken. She kept saying "Stuck Stuck!" as she pulled on the doors. I had to drag her away kicking and screaming. Who knew?

Of course she did not love the characters up close. She was fine with them at a distance but as you will she, there was no way we were going to get a good picture with them.




Welp, there you have it, if you made it through the plethora of pictures. We had such a wonderful time and are so thankful to have such a great extened family to go on great trips with!