Disney on Ice

This morning we went to Disney on Ice and we had so much fun! We expected Ellie to squeal with excitement when she saw Mickey, the princesses, etc., but she hardly uttered a word during the nearly 2 hour performance -- she just sat super still and watched everything. She definitely enjoyed it...just not in the way we thought she would. And Charlie loved all of the activity! I thought he might have a meltdown because it was in the middle of his morning nap, but he was great -- happy as could be, and then he passed out before the car even left the parking lot.



Here's Ellie's reaction (or lack thereof) to the start of the show:



And Charlie checking out the action:

As I said above, Ellie hardly spoke a word during the performance. She watched it all, but she seemed to be thinking about really serious things at the same time. I thought she might be pondering questions like how did they make it snow in here? if Mickey is here, how can he be on the DVR at home? if Goofy and Pluto are both dogs, why is it that only Goofy can talk? You know, important questions like that. So when she turned to me midway through the second half with an excited expression on her face, I thought "here we go -- she's going to resume her expressive, 24x7 stream of consciousness and we'll get to hear what she thinks about the show." I was only 50% right. Managing to project her voice over the loud performance and lots of chatter, Ellie exclaimed (and this really should be in all caps, but I can hardly bring myself to type it, much less in all caps), "Ellie's got a penis!" My jaw dropped as I quickly calculated just how many people heard this very interesting statement, and before I could react in a more productive manner, she said "No...a 'gina!" I couldn't do anything except laugh...a lot. Damian's reaction: "Now are you glad that you taught her the proper name for those things?" See, we've been having a running debate about this -- my MOMS group had a speaker (presumably with some appropriate qualifications) who said that it's important to talk to kids about their "bits" and to teach kids the proper names for them so that they don't ever think they're something to be embarrassed about. That way, if they have questions or if, God forbid, anyone tried to do something horrible to them, they wouldn't be embarrassed to talk to you about it. Makes perfect sense to me. I just didn't expect to talk about it in the middle of Disney on Ice. Ellie has said it several times since then, so don't be surprised if we're on the phone at some point and, in the background, you hear "Ellie's got a penis!" Now I'm going to sit down and figure out how to write Ellie's teacher a note about this so she's not concerned.