{"id":792,"date":"2006-09-16T09:27:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T13:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/?p=792"},"modified":"2006-09-16T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T13:27:13","slug":"a-little-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"A Little Nervous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, we are here in LA and it is crazy. All I can say is, my kids rock. Just absolutely rock. They are such little troopers it amazes me. After a 1 hour delay, we finally arrived in LAX safe and sound. Leina was an amazing traveller. She listened, followed, sat and slept all on her own on the plane. She amused fellow travellers with her non-stop dialog with Elmo and was a complete and total angel.<\/p>\n

Kulia? Not so much. The wounds are just too fresh for me to even try and re-live that flight. Maybe, on her 30th birthday I’ll tell her about what a joy it was to try and confine her squirming 15 month body to a single seat for two hours. Maybe.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, we arrived Thurs evening, tucked them in, and then woke up Friday and hit the ground running. Papa and I packed up Leina and headed for Disneyland at 7:30am. Kulia barely had the sleep out of her eyes when we left her with Tutu for the entire day. Tutu reports that she was find and played happily without us. Where this happy child was yesterday on the plane, I’m not sure. The entire ride over, Leina chattered non-stop about how she wasn’t afraid of the characters anymore and wanted to give everyone hugs. Big talker. When we arrived, we met up with Uncle Dan and Daniel at the big Dland.<\/p>\n

Right when we walked in, I saw them. A circle of Princesses just waiting to meet and greet the throngs. So, I took Leina’s hand to wait for our turn with Snow White. At first, Leina was ok. Happy, excited, and with big plans about what she would do when it was her turn. As the line moved forward, however, things began to go south. About 4 people away, she announced she was feeling a little nervous. 3 away, and she upgraded to fear. 2 away and she began wailing and tearing at my leg. My the time we were at the front of the line, she was attempting to crawl up my leg using nothing but her fingernails and sheer terror.<\/p>\n

We were going to greet this princess. All month long she had assured me she was no longer afraid. I have braved two hours with Kulia in a small, highly pressurized cabin. We were going to hug that princess and get a picture even if it killed us.<\/p>\n

So when Snow White smiled at us and beckoned us forward, I swooped up Leina in my arms and marched next to Ms. White. She was very kind, and soft spoken, and smiley. Leina was slack jawed, big eyed, and had a finger up her nose but at least the screaming stopped. After a little chit chat, we turned for our picture. Suddenly, Leina realized that this princess wasn’t going to eat her and the words started to flow. And flow. And flow.<\/p>\n

I had created a monster.<\/p>\n

Leina didn’t care much for the rides. She spent the entire day looking for more characters. She dragged us from land to land looking for anything Disney to hug and talk to. Her fav? Probably Mickey. There was quite a line for Mickey in his Toontown house. When we finally arrived in the big Cheese’s presence, Leina walked right up to him, and buried her face in this shoulder and held on for dear life. She hugged him, and hugged him, and hugged him. Finally, the camera man had to cajole her to turn around for a picture. I think she could have stayed there, hugging Mickey, until they started the Starlight parade.<\/p>\n

I have some great pictures of her with Snow White, Cinderella, Pluto, Mickey, Tigger and Eoyere. I don’t know if she remembers any rides. I do know that she will remeber the hugs for a very long time.<\/p>\n

A little nervous? Ha!
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Well, we are here in LA and it is crazy. All I can say is, my kids rock. Just absolutely rock. They are such little troopers it amazes me. After a 1 hour delay, we finally arrived in LAX safe and sound. Leina was an amazing traveller. She listened, followed, sat and slept all on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-cM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}