dumbo_buddy
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Welcome Everyone!
I'm a first time mom and just returned from our most wonderful trip to WDW! This is my first trip report ever and I can't wait to begin! Let's start from the beginning, shall we? (a very good place to start!)
The Cast of Characters:
Me:
Hi! I'm Nancy. I'm turning 30 this year
eek
. I'm from the Bronx and well, a little cynical. Ok, I'm very cynical and sarcastic. So why the heck do I like Disney?? Well, it's the one place where I just let loose and "dork it out" as my friend often tells me. It's my forced happiness! I do believe that since I've had my son I'm way less of an angry person! Until I had him I worked as the Head of Investor Relations for a multi-billion dollar asset management firm - perhaps where the bitterness came from - but hubby and I decided that I will stay home to raise our son. I really enjoy staying home and I just love my little boy. 
Here I am with my guy a couple days before Christmas:
DH:
My husband is John and several people have coined him, "the nicest guy I've ever met". I hate to admit it, but it's true. He is really friendly and genuinely loves our boy as much as I do (but once you see him you'll know why! hehe). John works as the Marketing Director for a technology firm. He works really hard and even started a consulting business on the side (which I hope to help him with) so we can afford for me to stay home.
We started going to Disney shortly after we got married and in the 3.5 years we've been married we've gone 5 times!!! I totally hooked him on the mouse!
Here he is (another Christmastime picture as these were the easiest to find!):
Finally, DS:
One June 20, 2009, our miracle Thomas Edward was born. After 2.5 long years of trying to conceive, fertility treatments, a miscarriage, and lots of tears, we were so blessed to finally be pregnant with him. The pregnancy was not an easy one. There was an issue with the umbilical cord which did not allow him to grow as big as the doctors would like. I was put on bedrest for about 10 weeks and was finally induced at 38 weeks to allow him to grow better on the outside!
It took me a while to really fall in love. Of course I loved him and cared for him but we had MAJOR bf'ing issues and I was too stubborn to stop. Thomas had terrible colic and has reflux. He still barfs upwards of 50 times a day. It is tiring! Slowly but surely I became more sure of myself as a mother and Thomas and I are just two peas in a pod now. Sure he still barfs but now I can laugh about it
Here is my beautiful boy getting ready to go to Disney:
Isn't it funny how every mother thinks their kid is the cutest in the world? I used to think that was all a bunch of phooey...until I had him and I'm another mom who truly believes I have the cutest!
What's that? Get to the good stuff? Ok ok you got it!
When: January 24-31, 2010
Where: Port Orleans French Quarter
Why: To celebrate our sweet boy!
I had been planning and packing and DISing non-stop for the last 7 months since Thomas was born getting ready for this trip. I got some GREAT advice on here and really owe it to all of you for being so prepared!
Our flight from LGA was at 7:15am which meant we actually had to wake Thomas up to get out of the house. That never happens! We got him up at 4:30am and fed him and had a cab pick us up at 5am. I held him in the ergo with my seatbelt on and he felt nice and safe against me (and also the fact that he was still in him jammies probably felt nice!). We decided to skycap the bags just because we were nervous about having him and all the logistics (you will definitely be able to tell we are total first time parents aka worry warts!!).
The flight went off without a hitch and Thomas wound up sleeping through most of it!
Here we are just off the flight with Mickey Ears already on:
And here we are on the "mini-monorail" as I like to call it:
I look tired! But certainly happy sorry I don't know why this one turned out so big.
We decided to rent a car since we weren't exactly sure how Thomas would be as far as getting to/from the park. We rented from Alamo and the line was ridiculous! And only one guy manning the computer. He turned out to be a bit of a jerk, but, no matter, we were almost at Disney!
We walked to the cars and were told to just go pick out a car seat from the big pile. wait wait wait...the guy I spoke with when making the reservation said that they would install the seat for us! gah! Well. we're smart, we'll figure it out, right? Notsomuch. I'm sure you can picture the scene of a couple with their now screaming little baby trying to install a dinky car seat at a rental car place...we just won't go there.
My first time driving at the world was a success! And I even snapped the BEST picture in the world:
Getting ready to check-in:
Isn't the walk into the lobby the BEST feeling ever???
Check-in was a total breeze and we got Thomas his 1st Visit pin.
Off to our room to plop down our bags:
Happy boy still in his jammies!
Well by now we were starving and ready to start our week of gorging ourselves on Disney food! I also couldn't wait to add to my collection of refillable mugs! John wants to throw some of them out but I just can't do it! We headed to the food court and split the chicken club wrap. It was really good and big! We were satisfied splitting it and felt that we then justified all the other things we'd eat that day.
Ok now it's park time!! Off to Epcot! Will we drive??
I'm a first time mom and just returned from our most wonderful trip to WDW! This is my first trip report ever and I can't wait to begin! Let's start from the beginning, shall we? (a very good place to start!)
The Cast of Characters:
Me:
Hi! I'm Nancy. I'm turning 30 this year
eek. I'm from the Bronx and well, a little cynical. Ok, I'm very cynical and sarcastic. So why the heck do I like Disney?? Well, it's the one place where I just let loose and "dork it out" as my friend often tells me. It's my forced happiness! I do believe that since I've had my son I'm way less of an angry person! Until I had him I worked as the Head of Investor Relations for a multi-billion dollar asset management firm - perhaps where the bitterness came from - but hubby and I decided that I will stay home to raise our son. I really enjoy staying home and I just love my little boy. Here I am with my guy a couple days before Christmas:
DH:
My husband is John and several people have coined him, "the nicest guy I've ever met". I hate to admit it, but it's true. He is really friendly and genuinely loves our boy as much as I do (but once you see him you'll know why! hehe). John works as the Marketing Director for a technology firm. He works really hard and even started a consulting business on the side (which I hope to help him with) so we can afford for me to stay home.
We started going to Disney shortly after we got married and in the 3.5 years we've been married we've gone 5 times!!! I totally hooked him on the mouse!Here he is (another Christmastime picture as these were the easiest to find!):
Finally, DS:
One June 20, 2009, our miracle Thomas Edward was born. After 2.5 long years of trying to conceive, fertility treatments, a miscarriage, and lots of tears, we were so blessed to finally be pregnant with him. The pregnancy was not an easy one. There was an issue with the umbilical cord which did not allow him to grow as big as the doctors would like. I was put on bedrest for about 10 weeks and was finally induced at 38 weeks to allow him to grow better on the outside!
It took me a while to really fall in love. Of course I loved him and cared for him but we had MAJOR bf'ing issues and I was too stubborn to stop. Thomas had terrible colic and has reflux. He still barfs upwards of 50 times a day. It is tiring! Slowly but surely I became more sure of myself as a mother and Thomas and I are just two peas in a pod now. Sure he still barfs but now I can laugh about it
Here is my beautiful boy getting ready to go to Disney:
Isn't it funny how every mother thinks their kid is the cutest in the world? I used to think that was all a bunch of phooey...until I had him and I'm another mom who truly believes I have the cutest!
What's that? Get to the good stuff? Ok ok you got it!
When: January 24-31, 2010
Where: Port Orleans French Quarter
Why: To celebrate our sweet boy!
I had been planning and packing and DISing non-stop for the last 7 months since Thomas was born getting ready for this trip. I got some GREAT advice on here and really owe it to all of you for being so prepared!
Our flight from LGA was at 7:15am which meant we actually had to wake Thomas up to get out of the house. That never happens! We got him up at 4:30am and fed him and had a cab pick us up at 5am. I held him in the ergo with my seatbelt on and he felt nice and safe against me (and also the fact that he was still in him jammies probably felt nice!). We decided to skycap the bags just because we were nervous about having him and all the logistics (you will definitely be able to tell we are total first time parents aka worry warts!!).
The flight went off without a hitch and Thomas wound up sleeping through most of it!
Here we are just off the flight with Mickey Ears already on:
And here we are on the "mini-monorail" as I like to call it:
I look tired! But certainly happy
sorry I don't know why this one turned out so big.We decided to rent a car since we weren't exactly sure how Thomas would be as far as getting to/from the park. We rented from Alamo and the line was ridiculous! And only one guy manning the computer. He turned out to be a bit of a jerk, but, no matter, we were almost at Disney!
We walked to the cars and were told to just go pick out a car seat from the big pile. wait wait wait...the guy I spoke with when making the reservation said that they would install the seat for us! gah! Well. we're smart, we'll figure it out, right? Notsomuch. I'm sure you can picture the scene of a couple with their now screaming little baby trying to install a dinky car seat at a rental car place...we just won't go there.
My first time driving at the world was a success! And I even snapped the BEST picture in the world:
Getting ready to check-in:
Isn't the walk into the lobby the BEST feeling ever???
Check-in was a total breeze and we got Thomas his 1st Visit pin.
Off to our room to plop down our bags:
Happy boy still in his jammies!
Well by now we were starving and ready to start our week of gorging ourselves on Disney food! I also couldn't wait to add to my collection of refillable mugs! John wants to throw some of them out but I just can't do it! We headed to the food court and split the chicken club wrap. It was really good and big! We were satisfied splitting it and felt that we then justified all the other things we'd eat that day.
Ok now it's park time!! Off to Epcot! Will we drive??
A reader!! I was nervous that nobody would read! I'll be sure to get to the next part of the day as soon as I can. It's hard to sit down with a baby!
also i just found that kmart has tonnnns of disney themed clothing too!
