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Maria made a birthday list today. Does this list say it all about this kid or what?

iPod/mp3 player, pink
speakers/dock
Hannah Montana; One In A Million movie
Barbie movies: Mariposa, Island Princess, Mermaidia
Groovy girls
My Little Ponies
Tooth fairy bag
Matching girl/doll outfits for Josephina (her American Girl doll)
Only Hearts Club dolls
Barbie/Disney Princess doll dresses
Body glitter, lip gloss, fingernail polish
Disney Prince dolls (she discovered these at the Disney Store recently), specifically the Beast if available.

I think this kid needs to branch out a bit. All of life is about pink and princesses and doll play. I cannot get her interested in ANYTHING else. Talk about a one track mind. *sigh*

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We are going to a kid's music festival this weekend call the Jiggle Jam. I'm super excited about it. As a result I've downloaded a ton of new music for the girls....I'm hoping it might counteract some of the Disney music that has entered our lives. Some of it so super cool and really good music. I looked up the groups that were going to be a the festival and downloaded anything I thought the girls might like. So I am now burning CDs for the car of Justin Roberts, John McCutcheon, Funky Mama, They Might Be Giants, Tom Chapin, and the always popular Trout Fishing in America. And, of course, the man who organized the festival himself, Mr. Stinky Feet! We already knew about and listened to some of this, but I never downloaded whole albums. Now we have TONS of fun and appropriate music for the car! I'm very happy about this.

Disney!!

Okay, give me everything you've got on Disney World vacations. Links, books, info, advice. I must be well informed or I will go crazy. We are trying to plan a good long trip to Florida when Brad gets back next spring and I want to make sure I do this right. Or at least as right as possible. Regardless, I love research. So throw it at me.

Don't forget to add what we should do and see outside of the Disney "World". We are planning about two weeks for this vacation (though I'm really hoping the biggest part of the second week will be spent at a friends house way down south!), so I want to make sure we don't miss something really good.