Kids say the darndest things: Disney related

[ajk912]

So, somehow my 4 year old found out/figured out that we are going to WDW in August. I know I didn't tell her, and DH denies telling her. Maybe her brother or sister told her? She looks at the photo album a lot and loves looking at all the old pictures of when we went last time. But the thing is, she doesn't understand and I can't help her understand we don't go until August! When she first found out, she kept telling her dad and I, "I am going to go see Mickey in August! I am going to go put my shoes on!" Today was the last day of preschool..so everyone was of course saying the kids are on vacation..so she pipes in and says, "Yay, it must be August then!" I tried explaining to her that it is NINETY days away..90 sleeps..yeah, she still thinks it is tomorrow. She has her shoes on, though. (Well, not right now, she's sleeping..she may have her shoes on though. ) Poor kid. Life's hard when you are 4!!!

 

[coolbeans]

that is so sweet, we keep telling DS (2) that we are going to see Mickey and he repeats it but doesn't understand. We have been working on recognizing characters and watching lots of Disney cartoons.

 

[brergnat]

Yeah, my (almost) 4 year old is like that too. I can't even say to him "we're going to the park LATER". He thinks if I mention it, it means NOW. I think time is a fickle friend to a 4 year old.

At least she is excited! Make a paper chain or some other sort of countdown so she has a tangible way of seeing how much longer. My son understands countdowns, as in "X days until..."

 

[Maggie'sMom]

We are going in September for DD's 5th birthday. About a week ago, she told me she was going to pack for Disney. She got out her princess backpack, put in her Cinderella dress (which she calls her "Disney dress" because she wore it to CRT the last time we went), her plastic "glass slippers", her Ariel necklace, and a couple other dress up related items. She then announced that she was all packed for Disney. I tried to explain how long it would be until we went, but like PPs said 4 year olds don't quite get that concept of time.

What I thought was even funnier was a few days later, she came to me with this worried look on her face and told me that she realized she needed to pack more stuff for Disney. She needed shirts, shorts, panties, socks, pants, and so on. She had quite an extensive list of things she remembered she might need. I had to stifle my laughter that it suddenly dawned on her that a Cinderella dress and plastic dressup shoes would not be sufficient for a trip to Disney. I promised her I'd let her know when it was time to pack all the rest.

 

[rigsfhdgnv]

My mom finally told my DNephew, 5, that we'd be going to WDW. He told us he already had guessed that because she wouldn't stop talking about "taking him on vacation with us" and watching all this WDW stuff on the Travel Channel. Now, everytime my mom brings up our trip (less than a month to go!), he just looks at her and goes "yeah, yeah grandma."

 

[juliana_sd]

LOL I have a few from our trip:

"The characters are just guys in costumes, but the princesses are REAL"

(After a very long, very fun day) "Why did we have to have soooo much fun today? It makes me too tired. Can we have a little less fun next time?"

 

[sk8jdgca]

My then 2 year old son, after refusing to hug ariel (after he hugged every other princess) "But she has scary ****ies"
My 8 year old daughter, after arriving at our room at ASMu in the broadway section, "who'd have thought that I'd be on braodway at age 8"

 

[dezimber]

My nephew(he was 4 on the 22nd) was at my house earlier this week. While he was here there was a Disney World commercial on tv. He said to me, "I want to go there!" pointing to the tv. So I asked him, Do you have money to go? It cost about $2000 dollars" Without missing a beat he replied, "We can use your money!" I told that I could take to Disneyland instead and he was happy with that. But I am planning a Disney World trip without him.
Dezimber

 

[Forevryoung]

I was packing for my Jan trip and my cousin (3.5 at the time) was watching me.

Cousin: "what are you doing?"
Me: "packing, I'm going to Disney World to see Mickey Mouse"
Cousin: "I saw Mickey Mouse" (her parents took her to DLP for a few hours)
Me: "Yep, do you want to go with me soon?"
Cousin "No I already went with mama and papa"


I had to explain to her that I could take her AGAIN

 

[dementia412]

For the time issue... how about making a countdown chain. Tell her that each circle is a day, and all those days have to pass before we go to Diseny World. Each day you take one piece off, and that way she can see a representation of what 90 days really means. It can help her begin to understand time a bit better (and boy they just don't get it at that age do they), and maybe even add to the excitment as she sees the chain getting smaller and smaller.

I love when I say I don't have money, so the kids tell me t just take some of daddy's money or go to the bank.

 

[Jakesmom504]

DS is 4 too. We are also going in August but my DB is in Iraq right now so I told him we will be going to WDW when Uncle JiJi comes home...his name is Jimmy but DS has been calling him JiJi since he learned to talk! He has been very good about it. He just talks about going but doesn't bug about when.
Although it was funny because for the last 6 months he has been saying how much he wants to go (we didn't tell him until this month). I kept telling him I had to sell things on Ebay to save money. He would bring me toys he didn't want anymore and say "here Mommy, sell this on Ebay so we can go to Dizzy Wurd!" Well we told him for his bday and decided to wait until after the kids left...bad idea! We had the video camera out, we were all excited, we all got him a bunch of Disney things to open and all he wanted to do was play with his new toys! I was so disappointed! Now he can't wait though! It was still worth it!

 

[Maggie'sMom]

I love when I say I don't have money, so the kids tell me t just take some of daddy's money or go to the bank.

DD did the most darling thing last Wednesday. She's been asking to go back to Disney ever since our last trip in February 2007. Whenever she asked, I always said, yes we would go back, but we had to wait because it costs a lot of money to go and I had to save up for it. Well, on Wednesday she came home from an evening with her dad and she had a nickel and a penny in her hand. I asked her if she wanted to put it in her Cinderella piggy bank to keep it safe, and she held the money up to me and said "this is for Disney World because I know it's really expensive." It just about made me cry. I finally convinced her she could keep it to spend herself on the trip, but she decided she would put it in a ziplock bag rather than in her piggy bank so it would be separate from her other money.

 

[kileybeth]

There is hope for all you Moms of 4 year olds! My DSturned 5 in January of this year and he totally gets time/days/weeks/months/years now BUT it is no better!

We had just returned from Disney in April of this year and were waiting a very long time for a seat at a restaurant. I came back to my family after giving the hostess our name and number in party and said we had a 70 minute wait.

After a few minutes of thought, my DS5 said, well, we could go get an appetizer at one of the not popular attrations and then come back in an hour OR we should just tell them we need a FASTPASS!

He continues to say things like this store really needs a fastpass line (at Walmart on Saturdays) or in long drive through lines "why don't they have good lines? there is nothing to look at here and I can't even see the toy! This is worse than Norway!"

and finally, he heard us discussing a return trip in Sept for FD and he piped up, "are the same characters gonna be cooking or will new ones do it this time?" I think they need some new cooks. Well then! move over Chef Mickey apparently my DS5 thinks Tink or Peter Pan should be rustlin' up his meals.

 

[aubriee]

I love when I say I don't have money, so the kids tell me t just take some of daddy's money or go to the bank.

I love it when I say I can't afford something and my grandaughter used to say, "yes, you do, you have lots of checks".

 

[tmonferdini]

My favorite Disney-kid thing was a few years ago. My twins (boy/girl) were about 3-1/2 and at pre-school. Grandma had taken all the other grand kids to Disney when they were old enough and completely potty trained and mine knew they were gonna get to go pretty soon, after DS was completely trained. We had all been telling him, after he gets potty trained, grandma is gonna take him & his sis to Disney.

Of course you can guess what happened. In pre-school one day, he told a couple other little boys in the class that once they got potty trained, grandma was gonna take them to Disney, too. The teachers had a fun time trying to explain to a bunch of 3-4 yr old little boys that it was only Ryan and Shelby that get to go with THEIR grandma, not EVERYBODY!!!

 

[CastleCreations]

My daughter was talking to the stepsisters and when they saw her stepsister outfit on, they went nuts...She had their faces on her shirt. So Anastasia told my dd to go and find her a husband, so my dd says she will go to Animal Kingdom and bring back one of the tumble monkeys from the lion king show, because they have big butts. Anastasia was like...ummm okay..

 

[santa's surpriz]

These stories are too cute. When my daughter found out that if she was good Santa would send her, she started to pack. My mom had given us a couple coffee cans (LARGE) full of change. She packed everything she was taking with her in her back including the coffee cans of disney money. I had the hardest time telling her we needed to take it the bank and exchange it for paper money bc it was too heavy...good thing there was almost $300 in change!

 

[sueh]

My 6 year old came home from school telling me how excited she was about going to Disney. Having to agree with her because I am just as excited she goes on to tell me the reall truth that she is excited is because as the hotel there are 2 maids. One to make the bed and the other to clean up her messes.
She wishes that she had that at home. I said you do.. It's ME!

My dd1 keeps asking me if we will be staying in a suite like the one on Suite life of Zach & Cody.

 

[mom2aredhead]

We've only been back for a week, and my son's already been asking to go back.
He started in the airport, with the puppy dog eyes - "Daddy - I miss Disney World". We had been gone, literally an HOUR at that point. So my husband said we can go back "someday" but we need to take a little break, especially since we didn't even get home yet. My son sat quietly on the chair for about 5 minutes, announced it was "someday", his break was over, and he was ready to go back to Magic Kingdom.

And I guess at some point my husband told him something about going back when we "hit the lottery". Since he's only 4.5, he has no idea exactly what the lottery is, but he's been walking around telling people we're going back to Disney as soon as Daddy hits the lottery. I can just imagine what he thinks that means - like there's some guy named "lottery" running around that his dad needs to catch or something

And we also do a countdown calendar - very easy to make in Microsoft Word, then put on one sticker on every day, and when we run out of stickers it's time to go. Makes it a little easier. He's starting to get the whole day/month/time thing, but he still thinks that if he proclaims it to be June, poof, it's June.

 

[Erin1700]

This past December when the villian float was going by in the parade, DD7 says "Wow Mom, Ursula really lost weight!" I thought the guy next to us was going to choke on his drink! But in her defense, Ursula does really look small on that float!