A pregnant mama, Mr. Crazypants, and Ga-Gae celebrate Epcots 30th! TR LINK-10/16!

[CandleontheWater]

Yay for being close to single digits! LOVE that feeling! We hit single digits today for the cruise.

Hopefully Everett sleeps well for you this weekend! Fingers crossed!

Sorry hear about the inlaws... Is he a only child? Sounds similar to a friends situation where he is a only child. Sucks that you are putting in real effort to have them bond with Everett and they stomp all over you. Hopefully it all works out soon and they do not crash the April trip.

Yay for being close to your cruise! It is my dream to get on a Disney cruise one of these days. I don't think it will happen for a few years, I don't think DH wants to do a cruise with young kids.

I just don't get it, its not like I'm keeping DS from them, I'm making time for them every week to see him and spend time with him. I don't think they would be happy no matter how much time I spent over there, they are always complaining about something that DH and I are doing wrong.

I'm sorry that your trip to Saratoga didn't go quite as planned! I'm not really an authority on kid advice, but maybe there'll be a lot more going on in Disney that will make Everett more tired in the evenings? I know no vacation makes me more exhausted than Disney!!

Ugh, and I'm sorry to hear that you're having in-law issues. Hopefully they resolve themselves soon, that must be very frustrating!

I'm crossing my fingers. I'm thinking that with Everett it may be just the opposite, if he gets too much excitement before bed, he is just wired and has a really hard time winding down. The night he didn't sleep at Saratoga was the night he was out late dancing and running like a fool. I thought for sure it would tire him right out, I guess I was wrong.

I'm so sorry about your in-law frustrations. Wanting to spend time with your son is normal, but not on his family vacation! I hope they'll come to their senses.

I wish I could have seen Epcot in its golden age! I hope you can get your special merch. So awesome!!

IlluminNations dessert party?! I had no idea such a thing existed!!

Oooh, you'll have to do an Illuminations dessert party one day, you'd really love it!

I'm late, but joining in!! I hope to do Disney pregnant with a toddler someday. Is it sad that I WANT to go to Disney pregnant? LOL I could've gone this past May but I would've been 32 weeks during DH's vacation this year and in January I just didn't know how I would feel and of course the heat. Of course when that week rolled around I would've been fine and it was just as hot here, but oh well!

You are leaving so soon, I can't wait to hear all about it!!

I do think you are a little crazy to want to do Disney pregnant, but I can understand, I always want to be in Disney!

I did something similar with my first pregnancy, DH and I had a trip planned for when I was about 30 weeks pregnant, and I ended up canceling it, because I was afraid that I'd be sick, or tired or something would happen, and then when the time rolled around, I was kicking myself. It think its tough when its a first pregnancy and you don't know what to expect, I sure wasn't about to sit out this time around, and I'm sure you'll likely be the same way!

Your trip is getting so close! I do hope you'll do a TR!

I am so sorry about you in law issues. You are right-Everett should NEVER hear someone treating his mom that way. I don't care who they are. She wants to go on your vacation so that she can spend the mornings with DH? Is she nuts? GRRRR. Please feel free to share anytime, you are in a safe place among friends.

Thank you for the support. I've really been doing my best, but this has been a tough time for me, and the last thing I need is more stress and aggravation. I hoping I might get an apology for their behavior, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Yeah for almost being to single digits and the trip getting closer!!

Sorry to hear your having these inlaw issues. It's probably not easy on any of you having your DH so far away especially you and Everett. Just know your not the only one who goes through these issues. I actually had a friend of my mil's make a comment to me that my mil doesn't feel like a grandma cuz she doesn't get to see her grandkids all the time. My response was she knows my number and knows I'm home. She can call me anytime. Do you think anything changed.....NOPE and that comment was made 3 years ago.

I just don't understand! If you really want to see someone why don't you call up and make plans. Wouldn't that be more productive than complaining? I just don't understand that mindset at all.

 

[CandleontheWater]

One week from RIGHT NOW, I'll be back at my room in the Contemporary, relaxing before the electrical water pageant! I'm so excited I'm nearly jumping out of my skin!

So I thought I would update you all on some progress I made and some changes as well.

This weekend went great! I'm so pleased to tell you all that Everett slept like a champ. We put him on the rollaway with bedrails, and he slept through the night with no trouble. I don't think that the mattress was heavy enough to secure the bedrails, because at one point he fell out of bed! but I put him right back in and he went right back to sleep.

The only problem was that I was so worried that he wasn't going to sleep through the night, that I kept waking up to check on him! I'm sure I'll get over that pretty quick once we're on vacation and things are going well.

I'm also pleased to report that he was good in all the restaurants, with the aid of the trusty ipad. I think we are on a roll!

The race itself also went very well, my whole family participated (even my dad! ), and while we might not have been the fastest (my dad and I were the last two across the finish line ), I think we had the most spirit. The race had over 500 participants and raised lots of money for the brain aneurism foundation, so that was awesome!

In other news, we've had an exciting couple of days around here, which is why I haven't been updating. On Friday (right before we were supposed to leave for New Hampshire) Everett took a dive into the Thomas table and really hit the corner of his eye. His eye began to swell up like crazy immediately, it was really ugly.

It was Everett's first "OMG call the doctor!" injury, but luckily he didn't have to go to the emergency room. Ice brought the swelling down, but he now has one heck of a black eye.

And then on Monday, just because we didn't have enough of the pediatrician for the week, Everett decided that it would be a good idea to stick cat food (kibble) up his nose.

I was trying to get dressed when he marched into my room, and very proudly announced "I put kitty-cat food in my nose, it all better!" I didn't believe him at first, what would possess him to do such a thing (!!!), but when I looked up his nose with a flashlight- sure enough, cat food!

Back to the pediatrician, who was able to extract the kibble, avoiding another visit to the ER.

I'm sincerely hoping we can make it through the rest of the week without any more visits!

But all this did have an effect on some of our plans. Since I don't think DS's shiner is going to completely fade by next week, I decided just to cancel the photo shoot. I don't think we need Everett's first black eye recorded for posterity.

Maybe we'll go to DTD the morning we were supposed to do the photo shoot. I did want to go to the Lego store and look for more Cars duplos for Everett.

I also did make some stroller progress, in that I am now the proud owner of a new UppaBaby G-luxe! They FINALLY got the stock back in, and Everett and I headed over right after the kibble was removed from his nose.

I brought my Chicco liteway to do a side by side comparison, and it is night and day. The Uppababy pushes like a dream, even one handed, and it is so slick and comfortable. I love it so much, I am completely repentant that I ever strayed from the Uppababy line- I promise I'll never do it again!

As for packing- well...

Tomorrow I'll post our last morning at WDW!

 

[fi46re129]

Yay for a sleeping Everett! Holy moly on the shiner! Ah the joys of fearless sons! Nick once stuck a BB he found while in time out and a rubber wood chip in his ear... not sure what the fascination is there!

Everett looks like such a big boy in that picture!!!


for the stroller find! I saw that stroller all over the zoo the other day and thought of you! Must be well stocked in NJ

 

[shan23877]

I'm pretty sure that 'stuff up the nose' is a little boy rite of passage. My little brothers did it several times.

Yay for good sleeping!

I'm so jealous that the trip is so close! Can't wait to hear all about it, I hope you have an amazing trip.

So glad that you got the stroller issue taken care of, and that you love the one you got!

 

[MEK]

OMG - you must be thrilled that your trip is literally one week ago! That is fabulous!

So glad that Everett slept through the night during his "test run", but too bad about the black eye. My son did something similar to that when he was young but ended up with a bunch of stitches instead of the black eye.

Oh brother to the cat food. . At least he told you. Can you imagine figuring that out later in the day or one or two days later? Sheesh.

 

[amazingact21]

Oh wow, you weren't kidding about the black eye! Let's hope he got his fill of the doctor last week, so that this last week leading up to your trip will be stress-free!


Glad to hear the sleeping and eating situation has improved, and I'm sure you'll be so tired at Disney that you'll be able to sleep through the night.


I'm also happy to hear the race went well. I think it's really great of you to participate, and it doesn't matter what place you came in, it's the effort that counts!

 

[afwdwfan]

Wow, what an interesting update.

First of all, I'm glad that Everett cooperated and slept for you over the weekend. I hope that continues next week during your trip to Disney World. Hopefully the rough nights a few weeks ago were just a one time thing.

Congratulations on finally getting to purchase a new stroller.

I'm sorry you're going to have to pass on the picture session for Everett, but at least he only got a black eye. Could have been worse. I don't know why he decided to shove cat food up his nose, but it must have seemed like a good idea at the time.

Good luck staying injury free for the rest of the week!

 

[Jiminy_78]

I started reading your PTR and then lost track of it for a while. Your trip is right around the corner!! That last week before a trip is both exciting and stressful, especially when you're packing for kids.

We will be down there around the same time you're there. DH and I are doing the TOT race and decided to spend the rest of the week celebrating our accomplishment. Hey, I'll run ten miles if it gets me a week with Mickey. I'm really looking forward to being at Epcot on the 1st.

I hear you on the sleep issues, I am glad that things worked out with the bed rails. DS uses a travel cot when he sleeps at his cousin's house so we have one for traveling that he likes. We found a fun Mickey in outer space bedding set that he loves that goes with it. Since we're driving this trip it will come with us. But when we fly down in January we may be trying the bed rails at BLT.

Sorry to see the black eye. We had a similar incident but in reverse where our son fell down while running around POFQ with grandma and scratched up his nose. We had family pictures scheduled for the next weekend we were home. Luckily the photographer was able to reschedule and we got some beautiful photos in the Smithsonian gardens a few months later so all worked out. Maybe you can do a family shoot in April with everyone.

Congrats on the new baby! So sorry to hear about the inlaws. My MIL is friends with a few of DH's ex girlfriends on facebook and likes to let me know what they're up to in their lives. I just smile and thank her for the information and then walk away. Some people are just .

Best of luck with the rest of packing! Have a wonderful trip!

 

[amandaw]

YAY! for Everett sleeping well at the hotel & being good in restaurants!!

Poor baby with his black eye. I don't blame you for canceling the photo shoot. You don't want to spend all that money to document a black eye.

And putting the cat food up his nose?!? I would have freaked out. I'm glad the doctor was able to get it out in the office.

And for the new stroller! It sounds very nice!

Can you believe how close our trips are now?

 

[CandleontheWater]

Yay for a sleeping Everett! Holy moly on the shiner! Ah the joys of fearless sons! Nick once stuck a BB he found while in time out and a rubber wood chip in his ear... not sure what the fascination is there!

Everett looks like such a big boy in that picture!!!


for the stroller find! I saw that stroller all over the zoo the other day and thought of you! Must be well stocked in NJ

Oh my gosh, I'm hoping that Everett learned his lesson with shoving things where they don't belong, but if not, at least I know he's in good company!

I guess I should just have gone to NJ! I think that Uppababy is pretty popular in the mid-atlantic, I know that the Vista was everywhere around DC.

I'm pretty sure that 'stuff up the nose' is a little boy rite of passage. My little brothers did it several times.

Yay for good sleeping!

I'm so jealous that the trip is so close! Can't wait to hear all about it, I hope you have an amazing trip.

So glad that you got the stroller issue taken care of, and that you love the one you got!

Well, that is one "rite of passage" I'm happy to have in my rear view mirror! It is funny, when my dad got home from work and asked Everett what he did that day, Everett ran right back over to the cat food bowl and picked up a piece of kibble! I rushed right over and intervened just in time, I guess he wanted to "show" his Poppy what he did that day. Thankfully we did not have a take two!

OMG - you must be thrilled that your trip is literally one week ago! That is fabulous!

So glad that Everett slept through the night during his "test run", but too bad about the black eye. My son did something similar to that when he was young but ended up with a bunch of stitches instead of the black eye.

Oh brother to the cat food. . At least he told you. Can you imagine figuring that out later in the day or one or two days later? Sheesh.

I'm so happy it was just a bruise and not stitches! I'm not a huge fan of blood, so I'm hoping we might be able to avoid wounds of that nature.

I am glad he at least told me, if it had gone all the way down into his throat he could have choked on it!

Oh wow, you weren't kidding about the black eye! Let's hope he got his fill of the doctor last week, so that this last week leading up to your trip will be stress-free!

Glad to hear the sleeping and eating situation has improved, and I'm sure you'll be so tired at Disney that you'll be able to sleep through the night.

I'm also happy to hear the race went well. I think it's really great of you to participate, and it doesn't matter what place you came in, it's the effort that counts!

I'm thinking I'm going to be exhausted after a day at Disney. I'm starting to get more tired at night now, and I know I'll be running on all cylinders at WDW, so I bet I'll crash out before even Everett does!

 

[CandleontheWater]

Wow, what an interesting update.

First of all, I'm glad that Everett cooperated and slept for you over the weekend. I hope that continues next week during your trip to Disney World. Hopefully the rough nights a few weeks ago were just a one time thing.

Congratulations on finally getting to purchase a new stroller.

I'm sorry you're going to have to pass on the picture session for Everett, but at least he only got a black eye. Could have been worse. I don't know why he decided to shove cat food up his nose, but it must have seemed like a good idea at the time.

Good luck staying injury free for the rest of the week!

I'm hoping he sleeps really well, I was really heartened by our latest test run!

I'm really glad it wasn't worse than some bruising. If he had caught the corner of the table, instead of the side, we'd probably have a much different outcome.

I have no idea why he wanted to put cat food up his nose! It couldn't have felt good! The only thing I could think is that he has had a little bit of a runny nose lately, and maybe he thought he could just "plug it up" so to speak?

I've asked him why he did it, and he just looks at me all bewildered and says "because".

I started reading your PTR and then lost track of it for a while. Your trip is right around the corner!! That last week before a trip is both exciting and stressful, especially when you're packing for kids.

We will be down there around the same time you're there. DH and I are doing the TOT race and decided to spend the rest of the week celebrating our accomplishment. Hey, I'll run ten miles if it gets me a week with Mickey. I'm really looking forward to being at Epcot on the 1st.

I hear you on the sleep issues, I am glad that things worked out with the bed rails. DS uses a travel cot when he sleeps at his cousin's house so we have one for traveling that he likes. We found a fun Mickey in outer space bedding set that he loves that goes with it. Since we're driving this trip it will come with us. But when we fly down in January we may be trying the bed rails at BLT.

Sorry to see the black eye. We had a similar incident but in reverse where our son fell down while running around POFQ with grandma and scratched up his nose. We had family pictures scheduled for the next weekend we were home. Luckily the photographer was able to reschedule and we got some beautiful photos in the Smithsonian gardens a few months later so all worked out. Maybe you can do a family shoot in April with everyone.

Congrats on the new baby! So sorry to hear about the inlaws. My MIL is friends with a few of DH's ex girlfriends on facebook and likes to let me know what they're up to in their lives. I just smile and thank her for the information and then walk away. Some people are just .

Best of luck with the rest of packing! Have a wonderful trip!

Thanks for joining back in!

I think the travel cot sounds awesome! I was thinking about getting him the peapod cot, that is a little like a tent, but they are really hard to find now because I think they got recalled. I'm hoping that he gets used to sleeping in a hotel in a regular bed with bedrails, because now we are going to have a second baby with sleep issues to deal with. I only want to deal with one non-sleeping child at a time!

YAY! for Everett sleeping well at the hotel & being good in restaurants!!

Poor baby with his black eye. I don't blame you for canceling the photo shoot. You don't want to spend all that money to document a black eye.

And putting the cat food up his nose?!? I would have freaked out. I'm glad the doctor was able to get it out in the office.

And for the new stroller! It sounds very nice!

Can you believe how close our trips are now?

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I saw the cat food shoved up there, so I did both at the same time. The receptionist at the Drs. office must think I'm crazy!

Yeah, we'll have plenty of pictures from the vacation with black-eye Everett, I didn't need to spent another $200 for special black-eye photos! We'll just do a whole family photo shoot in April when we have the new baby and Mark is back. I think that would be really nice.

 

[CandleontheWater]

One week from right now I'll be at DHS! Maybe in the Little Mermaid show! Everett really is into "Mermaid" right now,(gosh between his love of Beauty and the Beast and Little Mermaid, I really should have seized the opportunity to book princess dining, I'll likely never get the chance again! ), and I think he'll love the show.

Well we're at 5 days to go, so I'm going to finish up with our last morning, and then I'll likely pop in one more time before we leave with any last minute wrap up.

I hope you guys will all join me for the TR! I am going to do my VERY best to take lots of photos, but I hope you'll bear with me if it is a little light at times. I know its going to be tough managing Everett on the days we head into the park alone, so I might not be able to be as camera happy as normal trip reporters are.

Ok last day!

Oct 2nd-

This morning my plan is to wake up early and finish up any packing that didn't get done the night before. My goal is to have everything ready to go and down at Bell services by 7:30am.

Then we will hop onto the monorail and head over to the GF for a 8:15 breakfast at 1900 Park Faire. This will be a first for us, so I'm looking forward to it. I'm not wedded to seeing all the characters, so we'll leave and head over to the MK as soon as we are finished.

At the MK we'll ride a few of our favorites, like Dumbo, HM, and Pirates and see what else we can fit in, before having to leave the park around 12:30 to head back to MCO.

Our flight leaves MCO at 2:39 and then we land back at home at 5:15. It will be good that its not too late, so we can get Everett back and into bed at a reasonable hour. I'll want to get him back on schedule as soon as possible.

So now I just have a few things to do before we leave- like pack which I promise I am going to start tonight!

I also have to order Everett's diapers from diapers.com, but I won't do that until tomorrow. I don't want them to get to the resort too early, and potentially get lost in the shuffle. Other than that, I'll just be counting down the days and playing the "next week at this time" game!

 

[amazingact21]

Less than a week to go!


I thought 1900 Park Fare was pretty good. A nice variety and the food was hot. Plus, I think the convience of it being on the monorail will be nice for you since you'll be having to deal with check out.


Magic Kingdom on departure day...you're stronger than me! That has to be hard, but the advantage is you get to see the castle one final time and ride some of the best attractions.

 

[amandaw]

Our trips are getting so close!!! Can you believe it?!?

Your last day plans sound as good as possible - considering it's the last day at Disney & all. Seems like I've heard a lot of good things about the breakfast at 1900 PF here lately. Hope y'all enjoy it!

I forgot that we were both going to be in MK on Oct 2nd! I know it's your last day & you'll be pressed for time. But, I'd love to say "Hi!" real quick if you have a moment. Since it's our 1st full day at MK, we'll probably be in Fantasyland that morning.

 

[fi46re129]

I love how you always manage to squeeze in that last little bit of Disney! We are always too paranoid we will not make it back to ME in time and miss our flight that we just hang at the resort.

I love the next week at this time game! I have been playing it since Sunday.

I have heard amazing things about breakfast at 1900.. we did dinner there last time and it was delicious.

I hope you guys have a wonderful and amazing trip... how do you not its DISNEY!!!

 

[shan23877]

I'm so jealous! And at the same time, really excited that so many of you will be doing TRs soon! I need good ones to read!

 

[Stringbean&Wingnut]

Yay for 1 week left!!!!!!!

Oh no, I hope Everett's eye is feeling better soon!!! (He looks SO big in that photo!!!) And that he keeps kitty food (and all other small items) out of his nose!!! Thankfully you were able to avoid the ER!

 

[MEK]

I have never eaten at 1900 Park faire, but have always wanted to try the strawberry soup.

Don't you hating writing about your last day?

Woo Hoo for last minute packing and diaper shopping!

 

[fitgirl36]

I'm all caught up! Are you packed yet?!? The picture of Everett and his black eye! Lily has one to almost match, same eye too! I brought her into bed with us right before I had to get up for work DH was in the shower, I was getting things ready for the day and I hear "BAM' and instant crying! She was standing next to the bed bawling and then instant black eye!

Sorry to read about your inlaws and having to deal with that without DH. You make time for Everett to see them and that's how they treat you?! I hope they don't behave like that in front of him!

Have a GREAT time on your trip! Can't wait to read all about it when you come back!!!

 

[afwdwfan]

It looks like it will be a fun trip and I look forward to following along. Especially the part about the EPCOT 30 year events.

Have a great time!