Frozen on Ice

After buying the tickets six months ago, Saturday was finally the day for Frozen on Ice. It. Was. Awesome. Not the show exactly--yes it was fun and cute, yada yada yada--but the experience with Lainey. Loved, loved, loved it!

We waited until last Wednesday to tell Lainey about the show, and I'm glad we did, because it was all she could talk about. That morning she kept telling Nick over and over how he was going to stay home with Grace (the babysitter) and she was going to go with Mommy and Daddy to see Elsa and Anna ice skate.

When we got there, just as promised, we bought her pepperoni pizza for lunch and then a bag of cotton candy to take to our seats. Truly, I don't know if she was more excited for the show or the cotton candy, which she somehow already knew existed--evidently a daycare friend recently had the sweet stuff and it was the talk of the lunch table at school. No surprise, she loved it (and I did too, I don't know when I had cotton candy last).

So, we were already having a blast, but then the show started. It kicked off with some regular joe-schmos to get the crowd excited and moving. We stood up and did the "snowman dance" and Lainey thought that was pretty fun. But, then Mickey and Minnie Mouse came out and Lainey's face froze in pure joy and she started waving to them. Then all the Disney princesses started coming out  with their princes. By the time Cinderella appeared, I though she was going to wet herself from the excitement. Then the real show started and Lainey stayed rapt from beginning to end, singing the songs and waving to the characters. I probably only saw about 20 minutes of the show, because I couldn't take my eyes off of her. I even got a little misty-eyed at one point, because I started thinking about how fast time is going by and how she is a little girl and not a baby anymore. Sniff.

So, it was a pretty great outing. The icing on the cake was Grace couldn't get Nick to take a nap, so he was still up when we got home. That meant we put both kids down at the same time and still got a little time for ourselves that afternoon. I spent most of that time looking back at the pictures and smiling...check them out for yourself!

Lounging with her Pizza

Sitting with Daddy and anxious for the show to start

Cotton candy time!

I think Rapunzel had just hit the ice!