surviving the "mouse ears" literally!

Well we made it folks! The trip down was uneventful and we are now settled into our BEAUTIFUL accommodations in Newport Beach. Yesterday we started our week long craziness with our first day at D-land accompanied by my sweet cousin Felicia who is along with us as a "nanny" of sorts. She has been a wonderful and fun addition to our crazy crew!
The kids were AMAZINGLY well behaved and we no meltdowns or freak outs...it was WONDERFUL! We enjoyed lunch at the rainforest cafe which we had never been to. And rode every rollercoaster in the park. Abby's favorite was the thunder mountain railroad. Mason's Favorite was "all of them!" Chloe loved splash mountain.
Now you're reading this thinking.... surviving? This sounds like it was a cake day! Well the mouse ear hats... that's what we had to survive!
Frammie aka my mom, gave each of the kids money for mouse ears and a treat. Of course they needed to buy their ears right away but we were able to persuade them to wait until lunch. So we purchase said ears and continue on our adventure. Within moments the first set of ears if flying off on the Roger Rabbit cartoon spin. We tell the cast member and they say come back at closing and we can look when the ride is shut down. No problem. So we continue on our day and about 5 hours later Chloe leaves her hat in the pocket on the Indiana Jones Ride. She comes outside devistated so mommy goes in to save the day and the cast members search every car and again say come back at closing and we search the ride when it shuts down.
So we continue on our day knowing that we need to hit these 2 rides at closing on opposite ends of the park with 3 kids who have been disneyfied for 10 hours and are beat.
SO at closing Felicia, myself and the girls head to toontown and Neil and Mason head to Indiana Jones. No hats to be found... but of course Disney writes us vouchers for free replacement hats which was above and beyond fabulous! They even gave us a fast pass for our whole party for our "inconvienience". Here's the kicker... while waiting for the voucher in toontown Mason's ears were stolen off the stroller outside the ride. So they give us a 3rd voucher to replace is ears. Can I just say that Disney totally rocks my world and made my children's day!!
The moral of the story is... just give all the hats to the 4 year old... she's the only one who still has her original pair!! Stay "tooned" for more vacation updates through out the week. :)