I traded my stroller for a wheelchair...A mom & daughter trip to WDW

You guys look so cute in the pic on the plane. Full of excitement and ready to go!! Sorry about the mommy guilt. That must have been tough. How is Ethan doing with school now?

Looking forward to more!! popcorn::
 
It's been an exceptionally busy week, so I'm just discovering the TR start. Just checking in to say I will look forward to reading this weekend when I get some free time. :)
 
You guys look so cute in the pic on the plane. Full of excitement and ready to go!! Sorry about the mommy guilt. That must have been tough. How is Ethan doing with school now?

Looking forward to more!! popcorn::

Morning C!!!! Soooo happy to see you on DIS, again, although that means you're sooo back to reality, but nevertheless, I'm happy!!;)

Aww, thanks, those self portraits are never the best angle, but you still need them......or at least that's what I tell myself!! I didn't want to ask someone to take our pic on the plane!! LOL!! But you're so right...we were SO excited!!

Didn't get around to updating yesterday....one of THOSE afternoons...do my best today! :)

Oh and thanks for asking about Ethan...he turned a corner this week! He's going, still complaining, but no tears and no episodes where I need to pick him up and put him on the bus so he's doing just fine......I think we're on our way! KNOCK ON WOOD!! :)
 
It's been an exceptionally busy week, so I'm just discovering the TR start. Just checking in to say I will look forward to reading this weekend when I get some free time. :)

MeMom!!!! SO happy to see you here! I haven't been on your TR either...and I know I'm missing SO much, I can see the emails pouring in!! Will do my best to check in there this weekend, too! I hope you're doing well! :hug:
 

I'm here! and all caught up. I'm excited to hear about your trip- with no kids. I'm sure you had a blast.

I never sleep good the night before!
 
Subbing! popcorn:: And looking forward to all those photos!

What a great surprise for your mom! I'd have a hard time getting up super-early too ;) You both have such pretty eyes--did your sis get them too?

I couldn't sleep the night before either. All the planning was taken care of, so that wasn't it--just the excitement :yay:

Glad to hear that Ethan's doing better about school.
 
I'm here Kristen!! Can't wait to hear about your trip and see all of your pics!! popcorn::
 
How did I not realize you had started this!?! :sad2:

Well I'm here and I'm caught up. You look so much like your mom!!

I'm contemplating doing a hotel the night before I leave in January even though I fly out of Manchester. I'm still pricing it out but I think I'm going to do it.
 
Okay, so I left off with Mom and I on our way! We were in the air to MCO in no time, we had a very uneventful flight and landed a wee bit early.....headed straight to the "fake monorail" to the main termincal and down to ME to catch our bus and in less than 20 minutes we were on our way to POP!:yay: I couldn't believe it, in December there were lines a mile long, zig zaggin everywhere, but it was a Monday and in September, so I'm sure that made all the difference in the world. As soon as we got settled in our seats on ME, Mom turned on her cell phone to find a message from Jodi. It was about 11 or so at this point.

Jodi called about 9:30-10 a.m and was just getting on the road! And she had a 5 hour drive in front of her! Oh no!:scared1: I had plans that we'd do MK a bit early, even if it only meant we made it down Main Street to see the castle or ride IASW, since it was Mom's fav once, we were going to MK before our 5:50 dinner ressie at The Wave. She had some issues with the car rental place, they didn't have her car reservation, could only rent her one for $400 for the week, instead of the $150 she locked into, so she had to drop her husband off at work, take their only car and head to Orlando, in hopes that her DH could figure out a ride for a few days (which he did, no problem), so it didn't start her day off right, at all.

We got to POP just before noon, I had done online check in, smooth sailing there, got the room we asked for (50's section, 1st floor) and we were on our way!!!!! And to boot, our room was ready!!!:woohoo: We headed straight there to check things out....

Here are few pics of our room!
Our room #:
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What was waiting inside for us....not quite sure what is is....thoughts?? A dog?? Hmm....:confused3 It was the last of the towel animals for us this week though!!:guilty:
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Hello Stacy!
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After checking it all out, which isn't much, if you've stayed at Pop before, but enough for us for the week.:rotfl: We decided to head to "Everything POP" for lunch, afterall, we had some time before Jodi was going to get there.......popcorn::
 
I'm here! and all caught up. I'm excited to hear about your trip- with no kids. I'm sure you had a blast.

I never sleep good the night before!

Hi Jen!!! Thanks for finding me!!!!:goodvibes

Subbing! popcorn:: And looking forward to all those photos!

What a great surprise for your mom! I'd have a hard time getting up super-early too ;) You both have such pretty eyes--did your sis get them too?

I couldn't sleep the night before either. All the planning was taken care of, so that wasn't it--just the excitement :yay:

Glad to hear that Ethan's doing better about school.

Hello! Thanks for joining me!!!:banana: It was a great surprise for Mom!!! And such a treat for all of us, too! Aww, thank you for your very sweet compliment! You'll see Jodi soon...I think we all look pretty simliar, it will be interesting to see what you think!

And thanks, yes, he's doing so much better! PHEW!!!:yay:

I'm here Kristen!! Can't wait to hear about your trip and see all of your pics!! popcorn::

Hi Becky! Thanks for coming along for my ride! Yes, the pics, I hope yo'ure ready, there are a lot of them!!!!:rolleyes1

How did I not realize you had started this!?! :sad2:

Well I'm here and I'm caught up. You look so much like your mom!!

I'm contemplating doing a hotel the night before I leave in January even though I fly out of Manchester. I'm still pricing it out but I think I'm going to do it.

Hi LL!
You are a busy girl, no worries, you didn't miss much, at all!!! Thanks for coming along!:hug:

I know, I do look a look like my Mom, don't I? We definately can not be mistaken as family!!!! :laughing:

It was so nice having that down time the night before the trip at the hotel, even with the sleep interuptions. And to be that much closer to the airport at that early in the a.m. is SO worth it! And especially in January around here, you never know what the roads will be so it might be that much nicer, for you! Worth considering, for sure.
 
Hey Kristen!!
Just found your TR and it is great so far! That stinks about your sister's rental car dilemma, I hope it didn't throw off the plans too much! That towel animal had me cracking up, it does look like a dog, but the weirdest one ever! :laughing: And I love that you had barely got into the room and Stacey was already on TV lol sounds like me! Can't wait for more!! :cutie:
 
Hey Kristen!!
Just found your TR and it is great so far! That stinks about your sister's rental car dilemma, I hope it didn't throw off the plans too much! That towel animal had me cracking up, it does look like a dog, but the weirdest one ever! :laughing: And I love that you had barely got into the room and Stacey was already on TV lol sounds like me! Can't wait for more!! :cutie:

Hi Lauren!!
Thanks for finding me and reading along!! Hoping to update more today, so stay tuned!! Although I have all the kids home today for the holiday and no help, so we'll see!!:laughing:

I'm glad it wasn't just me questioning that towel animal...weird, huh? :lmao:

Hope you're well!!!! :hug:
 
I left off with Mom and I going to grab a bite to eat at Everything POP. I took Mom for a tour of the cafeteria and explained the dining plan again to her, for some reason she had a hard time grasping it. :laughing: We ended up with some sandwiches, grabbed a corner booth and took a deep breath, we were finally here!!!!!:yay: We started talking about what we were going to do while waiting for Jodi, we had at least 2-3 hours before she would get to us, but decided we didn't want to go to MK without here, it would have been so anticlimatic if we went later with her, you know? So we decided we'd take a spin to DTD just to kill time. We finished lunch, I made a quick call home to see how everyone was doing, how Ethan did getting on the bus (NO issues for Daddy!) and told Todd we'd catch up later. We made our way out to the bus stop and got right on!!

We got there, with no plan, and just started taking a look around, poking in and out of shops. It was nice and leisurely, very vacation like....I was finally coming down!!

We decided to stop in one shop, not sure of the name, but it's where you can make your own ears? I was determined to get Cole a set of ears, the boys have them, and he deserved his own, since he's always trying to steal theirs!!! I was looking around, the CM's noticed Mom's birthday button so one of them tells her to come over, that there was a phone call for her! So off she went....Mickey sang Happy Birthday to her!!

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then they put this hat on her! too cute!!:cutie:
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Here are Coley's ears, taken out of context, obviously, but don't have a pic from the trip!! They have his name on them....
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and just because, they are cute!!;) My baby boys!!!:love:
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Then we headed over to World of Disney, is there any better store than this?!! When we walked through the door, there were fairy godmothers giving out pixie dust! Mom walked through the door and asked her if she would like to be dusted and she said "sure".....well, they put a face mask over her face and then started pixie dusting her like you wouldn't believe! It was ALL over her, it was too funny!!

Here is the pic I took of her afterwards, not sure you can really tell how much there was, but it took days of showers to get rid of it all!!:laughing:
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Being the good sport I am, they asked me, and I agreed too, so that Mom wasn't the only shiney one!! Again, not sure the pic does it justice....
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We then walked around and took some pics and just browsed.....
 
YAY!! An update!! How cool that Mickey Mouse sang "Happy Birthday" over the phone to your mom!! How magical!! And I know what you mean about that pixie dust!! I'm STILL finding it in the girl's hair--no kidding!! No matter how many baths I give them they still have some of that special Disney magic, I say!! pixiedust:
 
Love those birthday ears! They're awesome!

Your boys are adorable anyway, but even moreso in those ears. :)
 
Kristen,

The boys look so cute in their ears! :dance3:

You and I have the same Vera Bradley pattern :)
 
Love all the Mickey stickers that Cole has on his shirt! Mine couldn't take just one when they were that age either - they'd cover themselves from head to toe in stickers! :laughing:
 
Jumping on board. Always wanted to do a Disney trip with my mom-she passed away in July of this year. I look forward to reading your experiences.
 
Love the pics with Cole's Mickey ears and your other two adorable boys. As you can see from the pic below that is the one we got for our youngest.
 





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