KG's Hideaway

Oh God, where to start? I guess this is as good a place as any...

I don't know if I've ever blogged about it before but... my daughter, Ryan, is a Disney savant. No, really! She is! You say a phrase from a Disney movie and she'll spit out the title of it within about 5 words. Its really odd. You know the "Scene It" game (Disney version)? She got it for Christmas and she rather enjoys playing the game BY HERSELF just to sharpen her skills!

So, we always tried to tell Craig about the first Disney movie she fell in love with (after all the Winnie the Pooh movies) and how this ONE DAMN SCENE nearly undid my sanity! Picture this...

... Ryan, 3 yrs old and wearing her Little Mermaid dress (every damn day) sitting in front of a tv. We had just bought The Rescuers (not The Rescuers Down Under... that one came later) and I was just enjoying a rare moment of quiet while she watched the movie. She was totally into the movie and it was cute, so I started enjoying it too. Then, all of a sudden THIS scene pops up....

She has these HUGE blue eyes, you see... and she knows how to use them! God Almighty... she turned to me, with these MASSIVE pools of tears in her eyes... not falling down her cheeks (which I could have tolerated... I think) but just pooling there.... oh God, it was AWFUL.... She walked around for WEEKS saying, "It was 'doption day at the orphanage. A man and a lady looked at me, but they choosed a lil red headed girl..." Oh lord, just thinking of it is about to send me over the edge. It was a dark day in our household for a while.

So THEN, we try to tell Craig about this (several years ago when we first met) and he just missed the whole point... UNTIL we FINALLY found the damn movie and watched it again. And I'll be DAMNED if that girl (who at the time was probably 16) looked up at me with those same freakin' pools in her eyes and started it all over again. And we've been fine since then... until today when she sent me that dang link. It never ends!

Ugh