Gavyn / Disney

I just wanted to make a little post about the new Disney movie coming out this year and an update on my little sickie - in between my Facebook farming. It's their first 2D movie since Home on the Range, which came out in 2004 and it is the 49th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. It's directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, who also directed a few of my favorites like The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules.

"The film, which began production under the working title The Frog Princess, will be an American fairy tale, Broadway-style musical set in the French Quarter of New Orleans. A prince named Naveen from the land of Maldonia^[5] is transformed into a frog by the evil scheming voodoo magician Dr. Facilier. The frog prince mistakens a girl named Tiana for a princess and has her kiss him to break the spell. However, the kiss doesn't break the spell, but instead turns Tiana into a frog as well. Together, the two of them must reach the good voodoo priestess of the Bayou, Mama Odie, while befriending a trumpet-playing alligator and a hopelessly romantic firefly along the way. The film will open in limited release in New York and Los Angeles on November 25, 2009 before expanding into wide release on December 11, 2009." (Thanks, Wikipedia).

I'm just happy to see that they're finally making an African American Disney Princess. In Aladdin, they are Arabian, and that's about as close to diversity as Disney was going to get until now. The movie looks really cute and I'm excited to see it. I like that it's a little twist from the normal Princess and the Frog story, where the girl actually turns into a frog. I think little girls everywhere are going to want the Princess and the Frog Barbie :P.

While I admit that I love the classic Disney movies, I think Disney has definitely been coming out with some winners lately with their recent takeover of Pixar. Cars, Monsters, Inc., The Incredibles, Wall-E... Gavyn loves them all, and I love that I can use that as an excuse to watch them repeatedly ;).

Speaking of Gavyn, the doctors said that he has a double ear infection and pink eye. I have no idea how he got pink eye, because no one that we know has it. I think the ear infection was caused by James using Q-tips on Gavyn. Apparently that can cause ear wax to go down into the ear rather than getting it out, so it's bad to use it for kids, even though we use the "baby-safe" ones. So we bought one of those little bulbs that the doctors use to suck everything out when you first have your baby, and we're going to try to use that on his ears once the infection goes away. I feel so bad for the poor baby. His lungs and throat are completely clear, so the ear infection was causing both the fever and the cough. Now he's on an antibiotic and we have to give him three eye drops in each eye three times a day. Let me tell you that he's NOT happy about that. I almost started crying because I felt so bad when James had to hold his eye open for me to put the drops in, but I know that we have to do it :(. Luckily, he's now feeling a LOT better and acting normal, he's just not eating as much as he normally does and sleeping pretty heavily.

I'm at work now, after work we're picking Gavyn up from Tammy's and heading to St. Pete for Gavyn's Power Wheels Mustang. We have to drive Mike's Explorer with the trailer on the back of it so that we can bring the car back with us. I'm going to have to keep Gavyn in the car while James loads it in, and then cover it up in the garage so Gavyn doesn't see it ahead of time. He is going to LOVE it. When we were at Target the other day looking for some Christmas presents, he sat in the middle of the aisle with a little steering wheel pretending he was driving for about ten minutes. Just wait until he can actually drive in his sweet little ride that goes up to 5 mph (woo, watch out) and has a built-in "radio." I originally wanted to get him the Disney Cars car, but James has been wanting to get him a Mustang since he was born. James will probably want to get him a Mustang for his first car, too. I can't break his heart even though I secretly know that Gavyn would like the Cars car better. It does say/sing quotes from the movie. James argued that it's not a real radio and that it only goes up to 2.5 mph. I said that 5 mph seems a little risky and dangerous, lol. The Mustang we were originally going to get him is the red one, which would match James' car, but this one is blue (Gavyn's favorite color) and has racing stripes... So the choice was clear.