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[DisneyMom5]

Ok, the boys tell me they have found the formerly mentioned hotwheels. LOL

Ya know, I hate the attitude of "You should just be blessed to pay money to be in our establishment." If anything, there should be BETTER customer service when you pay a higher price.

Thank goodness the Princesses take their jobs seriously! They are always gracious and warm, and I would imagine they get VERY sick of little kids (or Parents!) by the end of the day.

Great update, thanks!

 

[teresajoy]

1.)They were poops, what a good description! Teresa is the anti-poop, though.



2.)We have so many more pictures from the BBB. Unfortantely, all of them look pretty much the same! Just wait 'til the next installment to see "professional" pictures of them. However, I don't have the photopass pictures yet.


3.)She is rather lovely.



4.)Yes, I turned around and there is David in his rediculous hat. He even wore it to the Old Car Show on Saturday! It was one of those "pop out the nose" moments, if I had been drinking pop (soda for all you southerners).


5.)Thanks for saying my baby boy is still a baby.


6.)Yes, we dressed Barbara like a Diser, and she didn't even know it!

1.)I'm trying to figure out exactly what that would be!!!
2.)It's in my purse! I will try to remember to give it to Mom tonight, you try to remember to reimind her to give it to you!
3.)So are you my dear sister, so are you!
4.)It was a perfect hat for him, wasn't it!!!
5.)Of course he is!
6.)Oh, we are sneaky people we are!!!

No, but Teresa filed a complaint about them! Once you're there, there isn't much you can do, either!

On one of our previous trips, a CM was cruel to Barbara. I can't remember exactly what he did, but he was berating her because she didn't hear him. She's deaf!! Teresa complained and got TONS of free Disney tickets for all of us (I'm talking 1-day park hoppers!). But, that was back in the days when they had excellent customer service.

Yes, those were the days, when they actually cared if they upset their guests! That guy was such an idiot, it still makes me upset! He upset Barbara! Which NO ONE is allowed to do! Especially on vacation!

We just used our last park hopper from that the other year! (of course it had gotten lost behind a dresser drawer in our bedroom).


Hey, I might have a non Diser reading our reports too! Hey Kay, did you come read Heather's too?? (Kay works with my hubby Brian)

 

[DisneyMom5]

Thanks for the birthday wish! You just reminded me to change his age in my siggy. His party isn't until next weekend. This is a good thing because he's been sick for the last few days.

Ummm... what are his symptoms? Because Lilly has been running a temp all day.
They were screaming at each other sooo much last week that who knows if spit was involved, not to mention fighting over the same toy, which probably touched a mouth or two, and I'm thinking, perhaps we have shared some germs?

Hoping it's not anything big, because Grandma and Grandpa are coming this week, not to mention the kid's play!

Hoping Mr. Sawyer feels better!

 

[CampbellScot]

seems like you got the grouchy-poo crew for FGIT's! ugh! all but one of them looked completely disinterested in what they were doing! NOT very magical!

the girls all looked so lovely!! Your Tessa sure is a stunner. That bone structure...girl, y'all gonna be in TROUBLE...then again, her daddy's a cop. Boys may keep a respectful perimeter...



all your little nieces looked so happy. Snow White sure is a teeny little thing isn't she? Goodness, I thought she was around Arminda's age!

Um, GROSS about the wet spot. I'd have yelled. Loudly. At somebody to clean that mess up! At LEAST put a towel over it or something. Holy HYGIENE people!

Your brother's hat made me laugh! You are right...very sensible choice!

can't wait to see what happens next!!

 

[tnmom25]

Hi Deann!! I was wondering if you ever came around here anymore. I haven't seen you in a while!

I'm with you on wondering who does the hiring! Did Casey's FGIT smile through her interview? Somehow I doubt it! I guess they wanted to give us the full Cinderella experience- wicked stepsisters, evil stepmother and all.

Let me tell yah, it's a good thing Sawyer's so cute some days!

Yep, I come around once in a while! I'm up to my eyeballs in fabric & thread most days!!!! I believe it's time for another installment, dontcha think? LOL

 

[MouseTriper]

I agree....time for another installment..!!!

 

[tadamom]

I agree....time for another installment..!!!

For real....do I need to start my cheer/chant again?

 

[teresajoy]

PHEEEW, you guys had me worried that she had slipped in an update without me knowing it!

 

[teresajoy]

seems like you got the grouchy-poo crew for FGIT's! ugh! all but one of them looked completely disinterested in what they were doing! NOT very magical!

the girls all looked so lovely!! Your Tessa sure is a stunner. That bone structure...girl, y'all gonna be in TROUBLE...then again, her daddy's a cop. Boys may keep a respectful perimeter...



all your little nieces looked so happy. Snow White sure is a teeny little thing isn't she? Goodness, I thought she was around Arminda's age!

Um, GROSS about the wet spot. I'd have yelled. Loudly. At somebody to clean that mess up! At LEAST put a towel over it or something. Holy HYGIENE people!

Your brother's hat made me laugh! You are right...very sensible choice!

can't wait to see what happens next!!

Courtney is a tiny little thing, that's for sure! Can you believe people don't always believe she is 14??? She, Casey and Arminda are just short little smidgens!!

Then, along came Lydia and Tessa! They are like giants in our family! Lydia long ago outgrew all the clothes Arminda wore to kindergarten and first grade!

 

[HeatherSue]

You people are awful pushy dontcha think?


Next installment coming up after this!

OH MY GOODNESS...all of the girls and Sawyer look stunning!!!! Garsh I wish the poopy FGIT were more exuberant....I wonder if the BBB in DTD is the same way??? (dirty and uninteresting) Well, hopefully the rest of the day went better than the morning. And I don't do direct FL sun (with humidity) well either but will be moving there to "practice" eventually. So looking forward to the next installment....

I have heard rumors that the DTD location is better.

Sorry about the FGIT's that they all seemed to have except for Lydia. Parker was too young for it when we went last year but I'm seriously thinking about not doing it with her b/c she is tender headed and I don't think she would be a happy camper for that experience.

Can't wait to read the next installment!

I can't see myself ever doing this again. At least, I don't think Teresa intends to pay for it again!

Ok, the boys tell me they have found the formerly mentioned hotwheels. LOL

Ya know, I hate the attitude of "You should just be blessed to pay money to be in our establishment." If anything, there should be BETTER customer service when you pay a higher price.

Thank goodness the Princesses take their jobs seriously! They are always gracious and warm, and I would imagine they get VERY sick of little kids (or Parents!) by the end of the day.

Great update, thanks!

I agree! The princesses are always so sweet. They must get just as tired as the other CMs in the parks, but they keep their compusure well!

Ummm... what are his symptoms? Because Lilly has been running a temp all day.
They were screaming at each other sooo much last week that who knows if spit was involved, not to mention fighting over the same toy, which probably touched a mouth or two, and I'm thinking, perhaps we have shared some germs?

Hoping it's not anything big, because Grandma and Grandpa are coming this week, not to mention the kid's play!

Hoping Mr. Sawyer feels better!

He started with a cough, then a runny nose and fever and throwing up. Sorry if he got Lilly sick!!

seems like you got the grouchy-poo crew for FGIT's! ugh! all but one of them looked completely disinterested in what they were doing! NOT very magical!

the girls all looked so lovely!! Your Tessa sure is a stunner. That bone structure...girl, y'all gonna be in TROUBLE...then again, her daddy's a cop. Boys may keep a respectful perimeter...



all your little nieces looked so happy. Snow White sure is a teeny little thing isn't she? Goodness, I thought she was around Arminda's age!

Um, GROSS about the wet spot. I'd have yelled. Loudly. At somebody to clean that mess up! At LEAST put a towel over it or something. Holy HYGIENE people!

Your brother's hat made me laugh! You are right...very sensible choice!

can't wait to see what happens next!!

Disinterested is a good word to describe the FGITs. They weren't necessarily mean, just completely disconnected.

Yes, we have some little peanuts in our family! Like Teresa said (she's running amuk on my TR, I tell yah), Lydia and Tessa are virtual giants! Sawyer is getting pretty tall for his age, too.

 

[HeatherSue]

We spotted the REAL Fairy Godmother, so we quickly got in line. Look at how euphoric I look in this picture. LOL! Brian is looking super-cool, and Teresa is looking like her mouth is full of granola. hee-hee

While the girls were getting their picture taken with the Fairy Godmother, we spotted these three! They were commenting on our Cinderellas. They were not complimentary

Tessa immediately went into bead and sash protection mode! We got their picture snapped, but we didn't know where to direct our attention because we had heard that the stepsisters are so much fun!

I had to include this picture because Barbara's mouth is full of granola and I just want to be fair.

The stepsisters went over to Sawyer and complimented his tailor.

You can just see the misery in the Disney-haters eyes in these photos.

We didn't get pictures of the girls with the stepsisters or stepmother. But, we will meet "the evil sistas" again.

We all rehydrated in the fountain. If I had known then what I know now, I probably wouldn't have drank from ANY fountains in Disney. There's a thread around here somewhere that talks about the strangest things you've ever seen at Disney and several of them involve all manner of gross-ness being done in drinking fountains- this one in particular.

We were off to the photo shoot with the girls, when we got seperated from Brian. So, we pulled over and waited for a while at Casey's Corner.

Cinderella snuck in a kiss for Prince Charming as we waited. Arminda has loved Sawyer SOO much from the time she found out I was pregnant. I thought she'd get over it by the time he got past that baby stage. But, she still LOOOVES him! He LOOOVES her right back. So, this picture gets me so misty-eyed (he wasn't trying to push her away, he was feeling his cheek where she kissed him).

Then, Henry and I took the kids over to see more ducks! I swear, the kids were always more excited to see the ducks than they were to be at Disney! Apparently, Sawyer wanted to give the ducks something organic to eat.

But, Henry broke out the snacks and let the kids feed them to the ducks. It's a good thing I didn't plan on actually having the KIDS eat these later. But, don't they look gorgeous?!?

Brian caught up with us and we were on our way to get the girl's pictures taken at Exposition Hall.

Time for a backstory! Sawyer was OBSESSED with the video "Disney Sing-A-Long Songs Disneyland Fun". It was the ONLY movie he would watch for about 2 months before our trip. If we tried to slip in a little bit of Dora or Leapfrog Letter Factory, our actions would be met with an instant screech of "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!".

I like this movie, but hearing the songs several times a day can be a bit much. Tessa and I tried to make the best of the situation, so we would dance along to the songs. Our favorite is the one that goes "We're walking right down the middle of Main Street USA". We had planned for months to link arms and walk down Main Street USA singing this song and kicking our legs in unison. We practiced this many times in my bedroom (where the kids watch movies) and had it perfected. So, here we were approaching Main Street USA, we were together, and we weren't in a terrible hurry like we had been in the morning. So, I snatched the girl, got Arminda to join us and we did it! However, we must not have been all that impressive as no one snapped a picture of this momentous occasion.

Tessa, Arminda, and I were giggling away as we walked down the street and David and Mom were being silly and holding hands.

We arrived at Expedition Hall, parked the stroller, and stopped to have a chat with Goofy.

Sawyer's first traumatic Disney moment was about to befall him. He was walking around, doing a few little hop kicks, when all of a sudden, he looks up and sees THIS!!!!!

The poor kid was terrified. Really, can you blame him?! He wasn't Chuck E. Cheese level terrified, but terrified just the same. I soothed the little booger

and we went into the building.

Teresa or I told the guy inside that we were there for the BBB photo shoot. He was beyond thrilled and exhuberantly led us back to the incredible photographer who coaxed lovely smiles out of our shy little girls.

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[HeatherSue]

Or...I could tell the truth. The guy was a total jerk. He didn't look pleased that we wanted to have FIVE kid's photos taken. He made fun of Casey's outfit, saying that she looked like she was wearing her pajamas. He just dismissed Lydia saying "I don't even know who you are". I was SOOO mad. I didn't know if Teresa heard him, so I didn't say anything. I didn't want her feelings to be hurt. But, I found out later that she had heard him loud and clear. The jerk led us back to the photographer who looked equally pleased to see a big group of kids. I should interject that these are well-behaved kids. At least, at that point in time they were behaving really well. There was no reason for them to be exasperated with us.

He decided that we should do Sawyer first. I didn't know that we were going to get Sawyer's picture taken at all, or I would have tried to comb his hair a little bit. At first, Sawyer wouldn't stay in front of the camera by himself. So, we thought he could take a few pictures with some of the girls with him. However, the photographer had other ideas and kept ordering Arminda out of the way. When the girls would leave, Sawyer would go with them.

I was finally able to convince Sawyer to at least stand there. I was standing off to the side, so for most of the photo shoot I didn't realize that he had something in his mouth (it was one of the jewels off one of the girl's faces). So, he has this "about to spit" look on his face for most of the pictures.

Suddenly, a lightbulb went on in Sawyer's head- HE HAD AN AUDIENCE!!!! So, he started showing off his karate skillz- jumping, kicking, looking super-cool.

Oh, what fun!!!

Look! I have a jewel in my mouth!

Oh yeah, check out these moves!

He was living it up, having a great time. It was so funny to see him out there acting so silly in front of stranger. I don't think the photographer enjoyed it as much as we did.

Next up was Tessa. She started it out by smiling really weird. Yes, it's the lipgloss smile again.

The photographer kept yelling "Smile BIG, smile BIG!"

This is what we got.

I don't know how he managed to make my beautiful girl look so awful! We kept telling her not to smile big because he KEPT saying it. Every time she'd get a nice smile on her face, he'd tell her to "Smile BIG", so she would.

At least we got a nice picture of her dress.

He was very rough with his instructions. "Put your hands together and put them up by your face. NO! Not like that! SHEESH!" Then, the guy that walked us back would roughly move her hands where they were supposed to go. She was starting to get upset about it.

But, they kept going and kept being mean and kept yelling.

Looking at these pictures, I really wish I would have stepped in and put a stop to it. But, I didn't know if I was just being unreasonably sensitive. Here's her last picture. At least she looks pretty when she's sad.

After her pictures were taken, she had to use the bathroom. Mom started taking her and I followed with Sawyer because I had to change his diaper...and because I was afraid I'd put the smackdown on that awful photographer and his awful "assistant". Henry followed us out, equally irritated. Mom took Tessa back in for some of the group shots while Henry, Sawyer, and I watched the Family Fun Parade.

It was....fun? Not so much. Kind of the lamest parade, ever. But, the people in it looked like they were having fun!

Teresa will have more pictures of the other girls in her TR. But, I wasn't in there, so it wasn't part of my trip experience. I will add a couple of group shots. Look how much fun they're having!

After the "photo shoot from heck" everyone joined us outside to finish watching the family fun parade.

Next up: Is Anybody Out There? Can Anyone Hear Me?

 

[NYPDwife]

Awww, I felt so bad looking at your daughter's sad face in those pictures. You guys were just catching all the crabby CM's that day weren't you. You would think that Disney would match personalities with jobs, but oh well .

 

[jham]

Poor Tessa! You can just see the progression of her sadness through the photos. But yes, she is beautiful sad. Sawyer's pictures made me laugh. That boy has got some moves!

 

[minnie2]

thanks for the trip report!

Did you let Disney know how awful their photographer was? He is dealing with little kids here and groups of people who come together he should be used to it!

Wait until he sees my crew coming in in November and I can assure you I wouldn't hold back. I am so upset for you and your dd! My jersey attitude is all in a dander!

The pictures were great!

 

[Hedy]

Poor girls. They look pretty, though.

 

[livndisney]

Oh Heather! I had no idea you such an awful photographer. You NEED to write a letter/email WDW. Even if you don't have his name tell them the date and time and they will figure out who it was.

Tessa looks so sad.

The Family Fun parade would have been better if Morgan had been in it LOL-She LOVES that parade.

 

[Disney Brat]

Thanks for the update!! We too have the Disneyland Fun movie that gets watched and rewatched, to a point now where it doesn't load properly and we have to pick the songs from the main selection...lol DH has told me that he wants to skip down Main St. too!!! I am glad to hear that you guys got to do it!! I am sooooo sorry to hear about your photographer and co's behavior!! That is just terrible!! I hope it didn't ruin too much more of everyone's day!!

 

[Stephres]

It makes me so mad to see Tessa look so sad! That is truly horrible. When we did BBB they didn't have the photoshoot option and now I am glad. How could they treat our Tessa like that?

Poor Lydia looks like she is about to slug someone. I guess their shoot didn't go well either?

 

[Dreamer & Wisher]

Wow, what an awful photographer. I am sorry your photo session went so badly. I hope that you and Teresa are writing letters to Disney. The look on poor Tessa's face says it all. Poor sweet girl.