Friday, July 14, 2017There's Magic in Those "Accessories"
I'm not admitting to any sort of shenanigans whatsoever, but LOOK! MILA HAS BEEN RIDING STUFF AT KENNYWOOD!
::cough::ahem::cough::
She didn't magically grow the half inch she needed to grow. Rather, there's a hole in the universe that I dove through because screw it. If companies want to create dumb rules and then fail to train their employees in the proper enforcement of those rules, fine. I can't make the entire world understand that good training leads to consistency and is a money-maker.
As you can well imagine, the magic that made all of this riding possible has Mila over-the-moon happy. She is OBSESSED with Kennywood. Every day there is a radio commercial that comes on for them and every day she yells, "KENNYWOOD IS OPEN! LET'S GO!" She does not understand that it is not a every day sort of thing.
She's lucky we have season passes so it can be an almost every weekend sort of thing.
So, shout out to the Disney Store for having the exact right accessory that made this all possible. And another shout out to the employees who don't care enough to catch on to that accessory.
Nobody tell them, internet. It's better this way.
Except for the part where going to Kennywood means we eventually have to leave Kennywood. The last time we did so, Mila spent the entire walk back to the car crying about "My Kennywood" and "My rides need me" and "We have to stay here because My Kennywood is still open."
It's her's. She has claimed it.
The Daisy Photo, Volume 12
I'd like someone to please explain to me how it is possible that this child has been on the Earth long enough to have done anything annually TWELVE TIMES. How can that be? How has it been 11 1/2 years since she made her reluctant entrance?
For the uniformed, I've had Alexis' photo taken with daisies from my garden every half birthday for her entire life. It also always involves a white dress, except for that one time that I preferred one of the images without the dress.
Initially I paid someone else to take the photos, but you can definitely figure out when I finally just started talking them myself.
And that's not just because the watermarks magically go away.
That actually happened first because the photo place in the mall became less dumb.
ANYWAY. The biggest difference between previous years and this year was that I didn't have to talk a certain awesomely hair-gifted kid into wearing her hair the way she was born to wear it.
Because finally, FINALLY, I think maybe Alexis is learning to appreciate her curls.
Which didn't happen because I told her that she should love her curls. It happened because her baby sister has the same curls and you can't hate that kid's hair. You just can't.
So Alexis had no choice but to embrace her hair. If Mila's rules, her's must as well.
I'll take it. I'll also take the fact that this kid is growing up crazy fast.
And she's crazy amazing.
