I'm taking a break from my massive "Let's Deep Clean the House While I'm Home Alone" expedition to bring you this...
Day 2...(morning)
Bright and early the next morning, we got our wake up call. After Stitch yelled at us to get up, DH and I reluctantly obeyed and began our morning rituals.
He got ready first, and began to gently coax the princess awake while I continued in my massive overhaul to make myself look presentable. Emma finally got up and was all smiles as she usually is in the mornings. I seriously wonder sometimes whose kid she really is. DH and I are NOT morning people at all. It is a known rule at work that no one should talk to me until I've had a cup of coffee and a chance to settle in for the day.
Anywho...she hops up and her Daddy helps her to get ready while I'm still making like Fran Drescher in The Nanny, and powdering, poufing, curling, spritzing and well...you get the idea.
Daddy goes down to fill our mugs with something to drink, and I finish getting ready for the day. I put on my shorts and my lovely royal blue top. My beloved UK Wildcats were playing our nemesis, Lousivlle, that day in the NCAA Tournament, and well...I had to be festive. So, blue donned, and lipstick on, we headed out the door. (Well...I had on lipstick. Not DD or DH. LOL)
Early in the morning, the resort really was peaceful. Everything was still, and beautiful. Just check out this view from our room:
and this one
Yep...it was early...the lights were still on! No matter, though, we made our way over to the bus stop and didn't have to wait long for a bus. We made our way over to Hollywood Studios, and took some pictures:
We were one happy family to be up so darn early!
In no time flat, we arrived at HS and made our way up to the turnstyles. They were having morning EMH's this morning, and the crowds showed it. We were there a good 45 minutes before the park opened, and we were no where near the front of the lines. But, we made the best of it, and waited in line while talking to some other families around us. It's amazing how happy everyone is at the crack of dawn in Disney World.
Before long, they were letting everyone in. I had to laugh a little when people started sprinting toward their destinations only to be stopped by CM's telling them no running was allowed. We just smiled and took our time walking to TSM. We hopped in line and said hello to Mr. Potato Head, who looks somewhat possessed in this picture:
We didnt have to wait long though, only about 5 minutes, then it was time to ride! We had a blast, and hopped off, and went right back in line. There still wasn't really a wait, so we rode again the grabbed fast passes for after breakfast.
Emma had seen some characters out and about around the Sorcerer's Hat when we came in, so we headed in that direction to say good morning to Daisy and Donald!
Good morning you two! My, don't you look spiffy in your duds!
Emma got some hugs,
some autographs, and a lovely picture
Then we all decided to go on and head toward breakfast. Now we had kept alot of what we were doing a secret from Emma and planned on surprising her with something on everyday of our trip. This morning, her surprise was this:
We were eating with some of our Disney Jr. pals!!!
We were quite a bit early for our reservation, but they still checked us in and we sat on the benches wating to be called. Emma was so excited!
"Mommy! Daddy! I see OSO!!!"
We were called in very quickly, and ushered to our table. We sat down and settled in, and DH leaned in toward me. "Do you smell that? It smells like dirty diapers in here. WHAT IS THAT?" YUCK!!!
It smelled TERRIBLE! We didn't say anything when the waitress came by to get our drink order, and then headed up toward the buffet. That's when we realized that it wasn't just at our table. The whole place smelled like it! WOW...someone must've have had a BAD dirty diaper.
It was awful!
We didn't let it bother us though. We were determined to have a great time!
The food was your standard breakfast fare, and we filled our plates and headed back to our table. The service here was pathetic. I'm not sure what the issue was, but it took forever for us to get our drinks. No matter though. We had characters to meet!
and
Even though we had dreadful service (never got refills, and she never came back after she brought our drinks either,) we had a great time there. The singing and dancing was great and the characters were just precious. Jake and OSO came back by our table two more times before we left and OSO kissed Emma as he walked by and Jake would high five her. It was cute.
When we finally got our check, we settled up, and headed back out.
What would we do next? Is it show time somewhere, or is it ride time??? Emma's choice! Wonder what she would pick? Any takers???
Let me know if you plan any Knoxville DIS-meets. 
It's been rough here without one close....even better that it's an outlet (I think - the one before was) I'm actually going there to check it out tommorrow - wanted to wait until the horde died down some.
And you definitely didn't get the server we had .. she was great! She wasn't the most on top of refills, but she did check back and kept an eye on DD for the chef and made herself available for us to flag down. I'm glad your DD got a great experience with the characters though! 
I really don't know what's open for EMH. So I'll just guess as if all attractions are open. 
That's crumby - did it finally air out?? Or was the culprit still IN the restaraunt sitting in the thing for it to smell up the whole place and linger for so long??? LOL ew!!
I usually just plop down in whatever I'm wearing, and if I'm lucky, kick my shoes off. 
Great updates so far; you have a beautiful family!
