Magic Kingdom

This morning Eli is singing "It's a small world after all"....Anyhow, we were able to get away for a few days to Orlando Florida. I had not been there in well over ten years and so much has changed. We were blessed to just have a little time to not do that much. The men of the family had strep so we decided to lay low for a day before going to Magic Kingdom. Oh, how fun it was to see Eli ride his first rides. He rode "big boy" rides as well....and loved them. It was funny to watch him ride the first few that were on the slow side....his eyes were literally bigger than I had ever seen them as he took in everything and was prepared for "anything". He would get off of each and every ride and do a jump skip with a huge smile on his face ready for the next ride. I wish I could have gotten this reaction on camera, because every time we asked him to smile...he did his "fake smile" which actually looks painful..ha! Anyhow, we saw a few shows, which he seemed to like (I think more b/c we got to sit down than anything else), but when we entered the "Hall of Presidents" he was elated. I do not say this lightly. He was shouting the different presidents he saw on the wall. If you don't know this already....Eli loves the presidents, especially Ronald Reagan because he "smiles all the time". Though the first few minutes of the show was a little hard for him to sit still when the curtains opened and he saw all the wax statues of the presidents he sat still looking in amazement looking for Ronald Reagan and then watching each one be named and lit up. It was cute.
It was crowded but a special day for the Keith family. We needed a day out to just do something new and remember what it was like to be a kid. It was so fun for us to see Eli experience new things and want to try new things. It reminded us the innocence of a child. It also reminded us that we have been blessed with a really good kid. He was such a trooper because there was a lot of walking and rarely did he complain. He is a true blessing and we need to be reminded of that every now and then so we don't take him for granted. We are blessed to be his parents. God has blessed us in more ways than we can count, and sometimes we need to just step back and see the greater picture. Days like these help remind us this.
We will share pictures hopefully later today.