Girls' Night Out

One of Malia’s experience gifts this past Christmas was another trip to see Disney On Ice. As expected, she was super excited, probably even more excited than last year since she knew what to expect this time. She really enjoyed the show and honestly, I think this year’s story was better than last year. Last year they spent over an hour just retelling Toy Story 3. This year they had many 5-10 minutes stories that included all the Disney princesses, Toy Story, Finding Dory, Inside Out, the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, etc. I had forgotten where our seats were and was pretty excited when we arrived and I remembered that I received a rockin’ email coupon code and as a result we had great seats. When the show was over, I asked Malia about her favorite part. She said it was the whole thing. It’s always fun for me to see how excited my kiddos get when they get to experience something super cool so seeing Malia’s enthusiasm was probably the highlight for me!

It's Harder Than It Looks

One of Malia’s experience gifts for this year was going to see Disney On Ice. She has been terribly excited and started asking how long it was until March about 5 seconds after Christmas was over. She has been counting down for over a week and finally, after an eternity of waiting (for a 5-year-old, anyway), today was the day.

We have been having lunch at my parents’ house most Thursdays so Malia and Kate (her favorite cousin) can get in some good play time. This week we switched to Friday instead, so we ate and they played like usual, but when it was time to leave Malia got ready to go very quickly, which is definitely not normal. Her usual response when I tell her it’s time to go is to act like I’ve asked her to donate an organ on the spot. But there was no grumping or whining today. There was no dawdling or asking for five more minutes. She cleaned up quickly and we were on our way.

As we were walking to the event center after we parked the car, Malia kept stopping to tug at her pant leg. I asked if she was having a problem of some sort and she told me there was something weird going on with her pant leg. When we got inside and sat down, I checked her socks and pants and discovered a marker shoved up her pant leg. I have no idea what it was doing in there. And Malia didn’t know either. Apparently, she stuck it up there at some point and then forgot about it…

Anyway, she had a marvelous time and said her favorite part was the whole thing. Personally, my favorite part was Lightning McQueen and Mater driving around on the ice. Their eyes and mouths moved and everything, just like in the movie. Well, that and the fact that I got to use the word “Zamboni” in an actual conversation.

Dinner afterward was another highlight, especially since Malia got one of the longest fries she’s ever seen.

And since she is a big kid now, she even wrote up her own little blog post about the event.

For those of you who struggle to read phonetic writing and are thrown off by anything other than the tradition top to bottom, left to right writing, here’s what it says: “The 10th was very fun. Disney On Ice was fun. It was ice skating. And I mean very fun. To you, Malia.”

Malia’s final assessment of the show is that because she saw Disney On Ice, now she knows how to ice skate. If only it were that easy. 😉