Day 4, Part 1
MK day!
Lily woke up at 7:30, and we ended up getting to MK about 3 minutes before the RD ceremony, which meant we were at the back of the pack. I figured that meant no Dumbo, but I'd survive.
Thus begins a series of stupid mistakes.
We headed to Fantasyland and Dumbo had a 15 minute wait by the time we got there. We skipped it and did this a little later:
It was very hot by then and we were in that elephant for about 5 seconds.
So I knew I needed to either FP Peter Pan and ride Pooh or FP Pooh and ride Peter. I choose to FP Pooh. Mistake #1. So I told DH to head over to Peter, while I FP'd Pooh. (After the TSM thing, I wasn't going to take any chances). I power walked the long trek over to Pooh (and it was HOT! 9:10am and like 90 already) only to discover that because of the construction the Pooh FPs are located by Philharmagic (which I KNEW!, but forgot!) So I walked all the way back over to the other side of fantasyland and got the FPs. I spotted DH giving me the, "What the heck are you doing?" look from the front of PP. As I walk over to him I realize that no one is riding Peter. Crap.
Yep, PP wasn't in the mood to fly yet.
If I had just decided to FP Peter and ride Pooh, it would have made a big difference as I was now very hot and pretty irritated. So we decided to ride Snow White.
Again, if I was thinking clearly, we would have gone to Pooh for her very first ride, but no we went to Snow White's Scary Dark Creepy Adventure.
We rode it and DD did very good, but was basically just quiet and a little scared through the whole thing. I can see us skipping this one in the future for sure once she hits that age where they start to scare easily.
I sent DH to check on Peter's willingness to get off the ground. He was still grounded, so we decided to ride Pooh. Lily LOVES Pooh, so we knew we'd want to ride it more than once. Plus there was no line for the carrousel, so we weren't in a hurry for that.
We got to Pooh and it was a walk on. The CM commented on our T-shirts. DH had made them. They said "Where's Perry?" and had the map of MK with all the Phineas and Ferb characters on it. I have no pictures.
I'll see if one of them survived the wash. They were really really cool.
So anyway the CM was gushing about the absolute awesomeness that is P & F with us and then we road.
DH flimmed both rides (Snow White in the dark lol and Pooh) with the Flip. The video better be great, since he always went to that instead of the camera.
Anyway, Lily was really quiet through the whole thing, just taking it in, but at the very end she started clapping.
And my heart melted.
For the first time that morning, I felt like maybe we hadn't made a mistake. There was no line, so we rode it again, saw our CM friend and DD seemed to enjoy it even more the second time.
We decided to check on Peter. I was afraid we'd miss it since we didn't have a FP. It had a posted 15 minute wait, which I didn't realize until we were already in line. I almost got out of line, but decided to stick it out. It was HOT. We misted the heck out of ourselves. I attempted to put Lily in the Ergo (it was around my waist anyway), which lasted about 20 seconds, before she started crying. Thus began the battle of "Who would hold Lily?" I can carry her in the Ergo without a problem, but I have a very short tolerance for plain old holding her. My back really doesn't like it. DH is happy to hold her, but she prefers me. Things had gotten much better in that department since DH had been home with her all summer.
So we took turns. My tolerance built up by the end of the trip and DD started going to DH with only a little fuss by then, so we made it work. But I really wanted to use the Ergo.
So we rode Peter. Lily didn't really react much to it at all. Not worth waiting in that heat (Mistake #3) even though it was more like 10 minutes, definitely not 15.
I ran to the little Princesses room and told DH to hang out by Philharmagic. As I was walking back I see him making the super impatient, "Hurry up it's about to start!" motions. We missed it and had to wait inside for the movie. We only waited a couple of minutes, so I'm not sure how we actually missed it. DH said the CM had said they just opened the theater doors about a minute before I got there...and that timing just doesn't make sense.
Anyway:
You can see the front of her shirt there! lol
She did well and enjoyed it more than Muppets, but we were almost all the way in the back behind a very tall gentleman, so it wasn't the best experience. Maybe in December we'll be watching it to warm up instead of cool off!
Next we decided to do the carrousel. I refuse to call it by it's new name. Lily LOVED it and we rode it twice. I really hope the video came out for this, because she was so cute. She would bounce up and down before it started and then she kept petting the horse's mane.
I'm removing her paci here. He only took 2 pictures and this was the better one.
We got off and Mary Poppins and Bert were coming out with no one in line! DH LOVES Mary Poppins. So we stopped.
Bert made some really funny comments about us having maps on our backs so we couldn't get lost.
Lily was really starting to fuss at this point, so I decided it was time to check out the baby center, since we had pretty much finished Fantasy Land. I had wanted to go see the fairies, but I knew we had to be at the Toontown rope drop and that didn't happen. We had another morning here, so it would be the priority.
The baby center was nice. I wish the lounging area in front of the TV had some comfortable chairs instead of the rock hard ones, but I guess they don't want you to stay in there forever. I tried to get DD to nurse, but she refused. So we sat in the AC, and I gave her some snacks. It was about 10:45.
We decided to head to Pirates and then eat and see how she was. By the time we got over to Pirates it was clear that she needed to eat. The taco place across from Pirates had just opened, so against my better judgement, we decided to just eat there.
Really, really big mistake. DD did okay at first, but the food was messy, she was hot (we were next to the ac, but at this point it had been just a too long, too hot morning). The end result was this:
(Nothing on her shirt though!
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She just lost it. I had to pick her up and I forced her into the stroller. I apolgized to the table next to us and the mom smiled and said, "Been there, done that. Find a really bumpy stretch of walk way and run her over it."
The comment really didn't sink in at first, but as we were leaving I noticed a strange path of cobblestones leading towards the hub and I followed that sucker! Incoming traffic? Pah! I have a screaming baby! She settled down as soon as we started moving.
We decided to head to the baby center again, and I followed that path as far as it went. By the time we got to the bridge to the hub, DH noticed she was out! YES!!!
But will she stay that way???
Just hard to get on sometimes with 2 under 2! LOL 
I even told Maddie last time that we'd get to do the Hot Dog Dance...
So what happened??
Her face lite up and she started pointing at Minnie. She was a little hesitant when we got close, but she smiled and reached out and grabbed her nose soon enough. She was very curious, but not super enthusiastic. It was still really magical. 
moment and gave her some snacks on the bus. Between DH's laundy thought and my snack thought, we were a downright amazing team! 
We took our 16 mo old n 2007. People questioned him going so young, but the way his eyes lit up and how Isabelle wanted to show him things was so priceless. 5 day after our trip a truck ran a red light and we lost our Levi. So I know exactly what you are saying. And it is that exact reason I can't wait to take Gabriel or 3rd hild for his first trip in Oct. He will be so much younger, but even at 5 mo. they still take so much in!
