Always Let Your (Preschooler) Be Your Guide. My First Trip Report! COMPLETE

[Queenofallthings]

I'll work backwards here....the quilt is gorgeous! You are one talented lady

Those photopass pictures made me a little weepy...sure brought back memories of when Jasmine was that age....pure magic She looks so happy and I love her line in the pool, I can only imagine how you guys cracked up

 

[shan23877]

What a fun way to end the night! Love the inapropriate hug on Mickey! She's gonna love that one later in life

Your quilt is so cute! Put me right into the sprit of Christmas! All I need now is hot coccoa and a good book

We had several photos where she was a bit inappropriate with ladies , but the one with Mickey is probably the winner. Maybe I'll submit that one when she graduates from high school...

It was a great way to end the evening. It was nice to unwind in the pool for a bit.

Thank you! I think my MiL will really like it. She goes all out decorating for Christmas, and has almost enough ornaments for an all Mickey tree. Maybe the quilt will have to be displayed next to that.

I'll work backwards here....the quilt is gorgeous! You are one talented lady

Those photopass pictures made me a little weepy...sure brought back memories of when Jasmine was that age....pure magic She looks so happy and I love her line in the pool, I can only imagine how you guys cracked up

Thank you so much! I'm really new to quilting, but the great thing about it is that some really simple designs look really complicated. I will admit that the Mickey heads were a little tough.

We framed so many of those photos. We will remember those moments forever. Her joy meeting the "real princesses" was so amazing to see. I'm sure when she gets older, I'll be looking at those pics with a tear in my eye. Heck, I could tear up right now...

She says some really crazy stuff, but this was really funny. We'll laugh about it for a while I think.

 

[TanzUnited99]

Love the character photos and the 'owie' moment with Cinderella - so cute

Haha at Maddie hugging Mickey inappropriately - makes me feel better about my Aladdin M&G!!

It's a shame Rosetta wasn't as good as the last one but looks like Tink more than made up for it. Vidia sure is a hard fairy to find - I wanted to meet her as well.

Love the pool interaction - 'But I have to panic!'

Great quilt - you sure are one talented lady

 

[CandleontheWater]

I'm sorry you guys didn't get on any rides, but those photos of Maddie with the princesses and Mickey and Minnie are just priceless. She looks so happy and so immersed in magic!

Swimming sounds like a good idea to me too! So funny about the panic comment!

Oh, and your quilt is awesome! I'll admit, it took me a good hard look to find the mickeys! What a neat pattern!

 

[kmedina]

Sorry this will be a run-on paragraph, but my enter key is not working. That is nice that you are taking another trip this summer. Maddie will love it. I have not had the opportunity to eat at 1900 Park Fare yet, since I was once again told I need to have a daughter before it is appropriate. Even though the food was not good, I am glad the characters were so entertaining. Those character pictures are amazing. I love the ones with Tink. It looks like they are doing a fun dance. My DS was in swim classes almost a year before he really took to it. Now, he is a great swimmer (for his age). Keep her in swim classes, and she will get it. When other kids were moving in and out of his class, he stayed in the same classs without progressing for quite some time. I love the quilt. The hidden Mickey's are awsome.

 

[Fantasyland Mom]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE that quilt! Gorgeous! I want one!

So cute that they took Photopass pictures not only of her showing off the bandage, but of the bandage itself! They're pretty good at capturing moments like that. Next time I hope to convince my husband that we need Photopass. He thinks he can get photos of everything, but...well...he's wrong.

 

[ronnmel]

I just saw the link to your TR in your signature. A little late, I know. So far I've read up to the point where your DD meets Beast. I'm enjoying it.

 

[shan23877]

Love the character photos and the 'owie' moment with Cinderella - so cute

Haha at Maddie hugging Mickey inappropriately - makes me feel better about my Aladdin M&G!!

It's a shame Rosetta wasn't as good as the last one but looks like Tink more than made up for it. Vidia sure is a hard fairy to find - I wanted to meet her as well.

Love the pool interaction - 'But I have to panic!'

Great quilt - you sure are one talented lady

The owie moment fit right in since this was the trip of showing off our footwear

Poor Mickey. I didn't feel so bad when she was being inappropriate with the princesses.

Tink was awesome. We may have found Vidia (but I don't want to ruin the surprise )

Thanks!

I'm sorry you guys didn't get on any rides, but those photos of Maddie with the princesses and Mickey and Minnie are just priceless. She looks so happy and so immersed in magic!

Swimming sounds like a good idea to me too! So funny about the panic comment!

Oh, and your quilt is awesome! I'll admit, it took me a good hard look to find the mickeys! What a neat pattern!

Those pictures were some of the best we got. I think it was worth skipping the rides for

Swimming made washing her hair sooo much easier! It was nice to relax for a while too.

Thanks! I'm glad the Mickeys didn't jump out. I was going for subtle.

Sorry this will be a run-on paragraph, but my enter key is not working. That is nice that you are taking another trip this summer. Maddie will love it. I have not had the opportunity to eat at 1900 Park Fare yet, since I was once again told I need to have a daughter before it is appropriate. Even though the food was not good, I am glad the characters were so entertaining. Those character pictures are amazing. I love the ones with Tink. It looks like they are doing a fun dance. My DS was in swim classes almost a year before he really took to it. Now, he is a great swimmer (for his age). Keep her in swim classes, and she will get it. When other kids were moving in and out of his class, he stayed in the same classs without progressing for quite some time. I love the quilt. The hidden Mickey's are awsome.

I think DS would have fun at 1900. The stepsisters were "hitting on" every available male! Talk them into it!

Tink was awesome. They spent about 10 minutes playing together!

We're going to keep at the swimming. Maddie has always been a kid who cannot be rushed. She's done everything in her own time. I hope that she'll start enjoying the water more. I'm insisting that she be a good enough swimmer to save herself, so she'll be stuck in lessons for a while...

Thanks for the nice words about the quilt. I enjoy doing it, and I really hope my MiL likes it!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE that quilt! Gorgeous! I want one!

So cute that they took Photopass pictures not only of her showing off the bandage, but of the bandage itself! They're pretty good at capturing moments like that. Next time I hope to convince my husband that we need Photopass. He thinks he can get photos of everything, but...well...he's wrong.

Thank You! I'm making about 4 more quilts before Christmas or else I'd put you on the list right now

I hope you can convince DH to get the photopass CD. I think it is totally worth it. For $100 we ended up with about 1500 pictures. We might not do it once she's out of the character phase, but for now it's a must do for us. Also, you can relax and enjoy the moments a little more if you're not worried about the camera all the time. IMO of course

I just saw the link to your TR in your signature. A little late, I know. So far I've read up to the point where your DD meets Beast. I'm enjoying it.

Thanks for hopping over! There's plenty of TR left! Keep your eye out for all of our inappropriate character photos!

 

[katt789]

That quilt looks awesome!! If only I could sew!

You've got some great shots of character interactions, absolutely adorable!!

 

[shan23877]

That quilt looks awesome!! If only I could sew!

You've got some great shots of character interactions, absolutely adorable!!

Thank you! Thanks to your TR I know where to find more characters at DHS next trip

 

[kcandbella]

That quilt is awesome! What a great present!!!

Love all your PP shots, they turned out so cute!

 

[LilAnn]

Wow, that quilt is amazing! You are so talented!

An a big fat UGH at that TSMM line. DD kept asking us to go on that ride again and again, but unless we had FP or the wait time was under 40 minutes, we had to resort to distraction techniques as well.

Like the inappopriate hug your DD gave Mickey, you know that I have many of those type of photos with my daughter.

 

[katt789]

Thank you! Thanks to your TR I know where to find more characters at DHS next trip

Haha!! True fact!! Character palooza is such an amazing thing to know about!

 

[Nermel9]

Hey! Followed you over from my TR! I know I'm a little late and I have to catch up, I'm glad you have chapter links!!

 

[ohboyx3]

Enjoying your report!!!

 

[shan23877]

I was hoping to have an update posted tonight, but I'm having Photobucket issues. I hope to get it up tomorrow!

That quilt is awesome! What a great present!!!

Love all your PP shots, they turned out so cute!

Thank you so much!

Wow, that quilt is amazing! You are so talented!

An a big fat UGH at that TSMM line. DD kept asking us to go on that ride again and again, but unless we had FP or the wait time was under 40 minutes, we had to resort to distraction techniques as well.

Like the inappopriate hug your DD gave Mickey, you know that I have many of those type of photos with my daughter.

Thanks! I thought of you when I posted that picture. I hoped you'd see it, I knew you'd appreciate it!

Hey! Followed you over from my TR! I know I'm a little late and I have to catch up, I'm glad you have chapter links!!

Thanks for joining in!

Enjoying your report!!!

Thanks for reading!!

 

[shan23877]

On the morning of Day 4 we were up bright and early. DH and I got up at 6:30 and as was our habit, got ourselves ready before waking our princess. We grabbed a light breakfast at the food court before grabbing a bus to Animal Kingdom.

AK had EMH that morning, so we wanted to take advantage. We arrived at about 8:10—not too bad. We immediately headed for…PhotoPass!! After a few shots, the photographer asked Maddie to pretend that she was cradling a baby. I was so excited! I’d been hoping all week that we’d get some Magic Shots, but I’d been too shy to ask.

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We look tired!

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Photo shoot out of the way, we headed toward Everest.

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Bryan and I grabbed some FP then we reversed course and got in line for our safari. The ride was a walk-on, but we got held up once we’d boarded the bus because some animals were in the path of the buses in front of us. We only waited about 10 minutes, and we were on our way.

 

[shan23877]

We expected Maddie to go bananas for the safari. She loves animals, zoos, aquariums, etc. I’m not sure if it was because she was tired or what, but she was not at all interested in this ride. I gave her the camera to occupy her, so I don’t have many useable pictures from our trek. (Unless you’re interested in photos of the guy sitting in front of us, Maddie’s shoes, or Bryans knees.)

We stopped for a bit because the hippos were crossing the road. I was not using any zoom on these pictures.

After the safari, we stopped to play the drums for a while, and then went to see if Kali was open yet.

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We hoped to do this early so that if we did get wet we’d have plenty of time to dry off before lunch. Unfortunately Kali wasn’t running yet, so we went ahead to use our FP for Everest. I’m not sure why we didn’t think to skip the FP and use the Single Rider line instead; maybe we were all feeling the effects of 3 days of commando character stalking. Bryan insisted that I ride first, so I took off to conquer the Yeti. (Maddie was very disappointed that she didn’t get to see the Yeti because he plays a prominent role in one of her favorite books—Charlie’s Superhero Underpants. She did ask me later if the Yeti was wearing the underpants. It’s a great book if you have little ones, check it out)

I met up with DD and DH outside the dump shop, and Bryan went to take his turn. Maddie was complaining that her dress was bothering her chest (she has eczema), so she and I went to the ladies room to change her outfit. On the way, I found out that Maddie and her Dad had been butting heads while I was riding. Oh, boy. It was going to be a long morning.

After Bryan’s ride we went to see if Kali was open yet. It was, and standby was posted at 20 minutes so we got in line. While we were waiting, DD and DH continued to bicker and fight. Finally I couldn’t take it anymore. I turned to them both and told them that if they couldn’t get along and enjoy their day, then I’d find another family to spend the day with. Having said my piece I turned my back on them and figured they’d work it out pretty quickly since they knew they’d finally made me mad. Within 5 minutes, I had apologies and promises to behave from both of them.

I took pictures while they fought

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Contrite?

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We enjoyed our ride down the Kali River Rapids, but as luck would have it Maddie and I were the 2 people on our raft that ended up soaking wet. I really wished that I hadn’t worn a cotton dress. I was feeling pretty self-conscious while it was sticking to me.

It was almost time for a FOTLK show to start, so we wandered that way. However, Maddie had other ideas. “How about Camp Minnie Mickey instead?” Once again we were on our way for some character encounters.

 

[ronnmel]

I'm finally caught up!

It's kinda funny that both your DD AND your husband apologized and promised to behave. You would think you were traveling with two kids.

Hope it was hot enough that day for you to dry off fast.

 

[kokotg]

We look tired!

Looks like Maddie's baby brother Simba's been keeping you up all night

After Bryan’s ride we went to see if Kali was open yet. It was, and standby was posted at 20 minutes so we got in line. While we were waiting, DD and DH continued to bicker and fight. Finally I couldn’t take it anymore. I turned to them both and told them that if they couldn’t get along and enjoy their day, then I’d find another family to spend the day with. Having said my piece I turned my back on them and figured they’d work it out pretty quickly since they knew they’d finally made me mad. Within 5 minutes, I had apologies and promises to behave from both of them.

I regularly threaten my kids that if they don't stop fighting they're going to have to go live with another family!

Great updates!