When I was in my younger days, I was living in Burbank and I had a couple of roommates in those early LA years. One of those roommates,Rebekah aka Rebe grew up, got married, moved to Houston, Texas and had four kids. She writes a blog and her call name is El Momma, based on her last name...all of her friends call her El Momma and her four kids the Els. It had been 4 years since the last time I had seen her so it was great to see her and all her kids who have grown so much. I love reliving my childhood and it is doubly neat when your kids meet your friend's kids. That is exactly what happened today when Miss P and I met up with El Momma and the Els at Disneyland. We had fun day at the park and Miss P made some new friends.
While at Disneyland, I somehow managed to get Miss P on Splash Mountain for the second time in her Disneyland going life. I think the only reason she went on was because the Els were going on and she loves mimicing what other children do. I know she recognized the ride because she didn't want to go on it but I told her we didn't have to actually get on the ride but that mom wanted to go through the line with her friends. But when we got to the ride entrance she jumped in so I took that as her wanting to go a second time. However, when we started hitting the hills and she immediately expressed her fear. I knew she was scared but she was grown up about it. There was crying and fear but she really was good about it. She kept asking if the hill was the small or big one. I kept reassuring her at each hill and I told her I would cover her eyes on the big hill which I did. You can see that I did in the picture above. She still cried but I felt like she faced her fear a little bit and was happy about that. I had all the kids congratulate her for going on the ride. Not sure if that helped but I'd rather her conquer fear than build it more. I'm hoping the former happened and not the latter.
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