DISNEY WORLD TRIP - DAY 2

With the sick-situation from last night, Blane slept on the fold-out bed in Meme and Grumpa's room, while Tobin and Allegra slept with us. Grumpa gave us all some laughs by recounting the previous night's events in their room:
Apparently Blane woke up at one point, and was trying to talk to Meme. Grumpa overheard Blane complaining that Grumpa's snoring was keeping him awake. When Grumpa rolled over to look at Blane on the other side of the bed, Blane noticed this and slowly ducked-down behind the bed so he couldn't be seen. (This has Grumpa laughing pretty hard upon retelling it.) Grumpa informed Blane this morning, that it wasn't his snoring that had been keeping Blane up, but rather, it was Meme's...

Our second day in Florida was our first day at the Parks. With the gastro-intestinal fireworks of yesterday, we figured that taking things slowly at Animal Kingdom would be our best bet. While we were truly blessed that both Tobin and Allegra's tummies and spirits were back to normal, Animal Kingdom was still a drain on us all.

We started the day with the 3D attraction, "It's tough being a bug", from A Bug's Life. Unfortunately, there were a couple parts that were a little unsettling for Blane, and the rest of the day he had sort of a down attitude toward things.

Toward the end of the day, Tobin rode Dinosaur with Kristen, Grumpa, and I. Blane decided against it, not wanting to be scared again - this turned out to be a good idea on his part. The ride was really jerky, dark, and loud, he would have hated it. Tobin on the other hand, didn't like it much, but toughed-it-out like a champ and was ready for the next thing.

All in all, the day was a fun, but exhausting one. The kids did incredible at keeping up and not breaking-down or complaining. Even Allegra, at only 11 months was a super-trooper through the heat and constant motion. On the 8 mile drive back to the condo, Tobin crashed (around 5:30) and never got back up for the night.

Blane and Kristen and I went to the pool before eating dinner. While Blane and I were swimming, we worked our way over to an area that had bubbly water (similar to a hot tub). As we got into the bubbles, Blane told me, "These bubbles are the life!"

We returned to the condo and had tacos for dinner, and then Blane joined his brother in dreamland - both asleep for the night by 7pm, AWESOME. We finally discovered their kryptonite!

THE NICKNAME HAS BEEN DECIDED

As we went through the arduous task of deciding what to name our newest addition, we of course had to consider all the off-shoots to each candidate. The most obvious issue was when Kristen suggested Allegra Sophia Santilli - and we really liked it. Too bad the initials would be grounds for her to disown us later in life. Stuff like that is important when deciding on names.

We were trying to think of what her nickname might be. Allie, or Al being the most obvious choices. I through out 'Gra', but don't think that'll stick exactly.

So today at Allegra's few day old Doctor's appointment, Blane came up with the nickname that I can totally see as sticking. Blane was talking to her, and said, "Hi Allegra! Hi Leggy!" We both looked at each other and knew that would probably be the nickname she'll be known by.