Make a Wish (and other organizations) ~ Wish Trippers UNITE! Volume FOUR!

[shruley]

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[Mom2Miracles]

Very cute calendar, Christy!

 

[brookerene]

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Yay for getting it started!

 

[Corrine 1973]

Love the calendar!!!!! So very creative.

 

[Tonyababyrn]

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[mommy2girlswv]

I'm very new to all this. First thing, I love reading all the pre-trip and trip post. Most of all my question about are upcoming trip are answer by reading.. My daughter, January(3yrs old) wish trip is May 6-May 12 2011, she will be taking her mommy(me), dad, and baby sister(Kaitlyn 10month at the time of trip.. As you can tell I will be traveling with baby and would love a tips for that.. Also, with her only being 3yrs old what part of the trip should we stay always from because it just wouldn't be fun for her.. We are thing about not going to epcot because she just too young to enjoy it.. Any info would be great..Again, I enjoy reading about everybodys trips at nap time..

 

[HeatherSP]

Hi I just wanted to update and let you all know that Lhea started her swim lessons today ... sort of. If you want to read more click on her PTR. I posted pics there too!

 

[Mom2mitokids]

Hello! My daughter, Ireland, will be taking her wish trip on April 10th (Disney Dream Cruise). How do I start a post for her? Thanks so much!

Hi and welcome. Glad your daughter is getting her Wish. You are leaving on my daughter bday.

I wanted to just thank everyone who has provided so much information on all the different things for Make a Wish trips. My daughter Aliann has been granted a wish trip next month, and we have been racking our brains for a while trying to figure out what is going to happen. We tend to be such control freaks about trip planning and so little information was given to us about what happens, and how things work.

After spending the last three days reading so many peoples wonderful suggestions and explanations of their own experiences I felt compelled to offer a thank you to everyone.

I do however have one questions that I am hoping someone may be willing to share their experience with. My daughter was diagnosed with Fanconi Anemia in 2010, which is a life threatening genetic condition that has the most immediate result of bone marrow failure. Currently she is in the initial stages and we elected to have her complete her wish now, which she is basically healthy and can fully enjoy it. While she has low platelet counts she is otherwise normal looking an energetic. I'm curious is any other family has experienced a Make-a-Wish trip without any physical or other issues that readily confirmed or identified the child as being a Make-a-Wish child?

I know so many others had so much more to deal with and go through prior to having a Make-a-Wish trip, and we are not normally ones to take advantage of a situation, but worry if we wait she may not ever be able to take advantage of this later. With the GKTW button and all I'm wondering if others have different experiences than most of those I have read?

Thanks again for any help anyone has.

Sincerely,

Jeff

My youngest wear a feeding back pack so she stand out, but my other daughter...who has the same Disease looks like a normal teenager. We will be going on her Wish trip in 13 days.

Hey everyone!

We have our meeting with the Make A Wish team this Friday. Our youngest, Hannah , was approved for a wish, and we would like to take her and our other kids to Disney World.

She has significant neuro and physical involvement due to her disease, and this puts her at about a 1yo level developmentally.

I was told that Hannah has to be able to "express" her wish, but that is almost impossible outside of her smiling and getting happy when she is seeing or doing something she likes.

She loves Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and I know that she would love the parades with the lights and music because that is what gets her excited. I think it would also be a great experience to be able to share with her brother and sister, and those are the memories that I want them to have about their little sister (her disease is progressive, and she has already outlived her prognosis).

Can you give me some insight into the meeting and how this is all going to work? Has anyone else had children who really cannot express a true wish?

Thanks

Hi and welcome. Like others posted..just have some books, or putting on a video of a disney program that makes her laugh.

http://www.studioscentral.com/attractions/jedi-training-academy
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/pa...ntertainment/star-wars-jedi-training-academy/

Thank you Judy. You came through again

The Jedi Training Academy is preformed many times a day (practically every hour) through out the day. It is located right next to the Star Tours Ride. When we went in Sept. 2009 I went to a CM that was gaurding a gate by the show and asked her what we needed to do to be picked for the show. She started telling me that the kids were picked randomly so there was no garantee that he would be chosen, I than explained to her that we were on a Wish trip and how much my son loved Star Wars. She told me to wait a moment and disappeared behind scenes. She than returned to tell me to be back as a certain time so that the show manager could get a look at Liam and be chosen.
I hear that they are chosen slightly diffrent now though. From my understanding, you go to the stage and sign up your child for one of the shows. You might want to call WDW and see if that is the case and than explain to them that you will be arriving later in the day and fear all the spots in the show are full. Maybe they would be willing to save a spot for you. Otherwise go to the show spot when you get there and talk to a CM about how to get your child in the show. They seem to be very accomidating for Wish families.

Thank you. I'm glad your son enjoyed it. I think I'll call them up and see what they say. All they can do is say no....right. I heard crowd levels are a 9 when we will be there and I know it will fill up fast. Differently by the time we get there.

 

[Mom2mitokids]

We did this with Fuller and here is how it worked for us. We got to the park around 10:00 ish and headed right to the area you sign up which is by the line area for the closed Star Tours. When we signed up the soonest he could do it was around 2 pm which I think was the third jedi training of the day and it was really empty at the park that day. My guess is they fill up faster on busy days which hopefully it won't be when you are there. They sign up a certain amount of kids per time frame and they only have space for that many as they have each kid stand on a dot and there are only a certain number of spaces. Because of this it may be hard to sign him up later in the day if there are no spots left even if you are a wish family. I bet there are people who will not always show up however so maybe if you talk with the cast members it will be possible to show up for any shows coming up and if someone does not show up then he could participate. I hope he gets a chance to try it...Fuller really had fun with it.

Hi Erika,
So glad Fuller was able to do this. Unfortunately when we are going it's going to be crowded. I heard 9sI'm just going to call them up and see what they say.

 

[Mom2mitokids]

wow! I feel like I have been gone a month!

I have some catching up to do!

Welcome back!!! We missed you

 

[Mom2mitokids]

I just called GKTW to ask about the Cessna flights and she said that they can be done pretty much any day. She is emailing me information on it.

I also asked about my mom and sister coming up to spend the night (which would cause us to have 7 in a villa)... she said 7 was right at fire code and it would be a tight fit. She said that I'd have to call our wish organization and get them to approve their stay, and then they would contact GKTW for them to approve it too. She really made it sound like it wouldn't be possible I guess if they don't approve it my mom could get a hotel close by... anyone know of any decent, reasonably priced ones near GKTW?

Really it shouldn't be a problem. All MAW has to do is call them and say which day there are going to be x amount of people staying with you. We have 7 people in our group. You all will fit fine. Korissa is having her friend coming and that's all MAW had too do. Good luck

 

[Mom2mitokids]

cross posting this on my ptr....

I just finished our countdown calendar!! I cannot believe our 30 DAY countdown begins tomorrow!!!

I cut out 30 Disney characters and stuck them on this posterboard. Behind each character is a number, counting down until the day we leave, which is marked by all the things we will be enjoying while on Elliot's Wish Trip. The kids decided that they will just remove the character of the day we are on, then put it back when the next day is removed that way all the characters are still around
Here is what it looks like right now

what it will look like when a character is removed

this is what I used to stick the characters to the board

If anyone ever wants a copy of all the characters, they are all saved in jpg documents and I can email them.

The count down calender is soooo cute.

 

[Mom2mitokids]

I'm very new to all this. First thing, I love reading all the pre-trip and trip post. Most of all my question about are upcoming trip are answer by reading.. My daughter, January(3yrs old) wish trip is May 6-May 12 2011, she will be taking her mommy(me), dad, and baby sister(Kaitlyn 10month at the time of trip.. As you can tell I will be traveling with baby and would love a tips for that.. Also, with her only being 3yrs old what part of the trip should we stay always from because it just wouldn't be fun for her.. We are thing about not going to epcot because she just too young to enjoy it.. Any info would be great..Again, I enjoy reading about everybodys trips at nap time..

Hi and welcome to the Disboard. Can't wait to hear more about your family.

 

[maroo]

I just called GKTW to ask about the Cessna flights and she said that they can be done pretty much any day. She is emailing me information on it.

I also asked about my mom and sister coming up to spend the night (which would cause us to have 7 in a villa)... she said 7 was right at fire code and it would be a tight fit. She said that I'd have to call our wish organization and get them to approve their stay, and then they would contact GKTW for them to approve it too. She really made it sound like it wouldn't be possible I guess if they don't approve it my mom could get a hotel close by... anyone know of any decent, reasonably priced ones near GKTW?

PM me too! When you get the info

It sounds like it all depends on who you happen to talk to...because several folks have said that they don't mind extra people...

But to add them officially is a bit different, I suppose. To officially add them means they would get tickets and such...but most MAW chapters won't approve more people because of costs and a host of other reasons, I am sure.

But it never hurts to ask.

LOL...that is exactly when we were there. It was the first Friday, first SWW of 2010. While the park was incredibly crowded, it was an AMAZING day for us as a wish family. My kids LOVED all of the characters, and we got great VIP treatment. They all still say that this was their favorite day of our trip, until my son fell in the bathroom and split his chin open . Thankfully, this was after dinner, so our little ambulance ride to the ER only spoiled this day a little bit, at the very end.

First of all - that is GREAT news about the First Friday...because if you guys had a blast and didn't get lost in the crowd, then that speaks very well for other families wanting to catch SWW!

I feel you on the ER thing...

Anyone that has read Lauren's TR may remember that she spent a night in the ER and that everyone on our trip got "sick" at some point. Not fun.

So...we are taking Lauren back! In 11 days!! woo hoo!

Laura, I think only Wish families or those who deal with LOTS of medical problems could really appreciate the irony of this...we just roll with it, don't we....So happy the other memories are so GREAT! Everything is relative...

so true!

cross posting this on my ptr....

I just finished our countdown calendar!! I cannot believe our 30 DAY countdown begins tomorrow!!!

I cut out 30 Disney characters and stuck them on this posterboard. Behind each character is a number, counting down until the day we leave, which is marked by all the things we will be enjoying while on Elliot's Wish Trip. The kids decided that they will just remove the character of the day we are on, then put it back when the next day is removed that way all the characters are still around
Here is what it looks like right now

what it will look like when a character is removed

this is what I used to stick the characters to the board

If anyone ever wants a copy of all the characters, they are all saved in jpg documents and I can email them.

so cute!!

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awesome! I will list it!!!

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hello! Feel free to leave the question up, if you want. It may help a future family who reads it later.

 

[Bill_Lin]

I'm very new to all this. First thing, I love reading all the pre-trip and trip post. Most of all my question about are upcoming trip are answer by reading.. My daughter, January(3yrs old) wish trip is May 6-May 12 2011, she will be taking her mommy(me), dad, and baby sister(Kaitlyn 10month at the time of trip.. As you can tell I will be traveling with baby and would love a tips for that.. Also, with her only being 3yrs old what part of the trip should we stay always from because it just wouldn't be fun for her.. We are thing about not going to epcot because she just too young to enjoy it.. Any info would be great..Again, I enjoy reading about everybodys trips at nap time..

Don't be too quick to rule out Epcot. It is a beautiful place and Nemo and Friends and the Mexico Boat ride in the pyramid are perfect for young ones, not to mention seeing all the amazing fish and dolphin tanks there. Turtle Talk is also a big hit.

 

[Bill_Lin]

Don't be too quick to rule out Epcot. It is a beautiful place and Nemo and Friends and the Mexico Boat ride in the pyramid are perfect for young ones, not to mention seeing all the amazing fish and dolphin tanks there. Turtle Talk is also a big hit.

I forgot to mention the Princesses in France at Epcot. I don't know if it is still running, but my daughter really enjoyed Ellen's Energy Adventure with its Dinosaurs and the water play area.

 

[maroo]

I'm very new to all this. First thing, I love reading all the pre-trip and trip post. Most of all my question about are upcoming trip are answer by reading.. My daughter, January(3yrs old) wish trip is May 6-May 12 2011, she will be taking her mommy(me), dad, and baby sister(Kaitlyn 10month at the time of trip.. As you can tell I will be traveling with baby and would love a tips for that.. Also, with her only being 3yrs old what part of the trip should we stay always from because it just wouldn't be fun for her.. We are thing about not going to epcot because she just too young to enjoy it.. Any info would be great..Again, I enjoy reading about everybodys trips at nap time..

to the wish trippers thread!!!

Honestly - all of the parks have a lot to offer all ages of kids. I love the Seas for small ones - Turtle talk with Crush is awesome! But...I guess of the four parks, it probably has the least for little ones.

and I have no clue on babies...Except to locate the first aid stations at each park - they are great places to rest and you can use an exam type room to do any diaper changes and such (this works for older kids, too!). They also have a Baby Care area in many of those First Aid stations, too!

Hi I just wanted to update and let you all know that Lhea started her swim lessons today ... sort of. If you want to read more click on her PTR. I posted pics there too!

aw!!! How sweet!!!!

Hi Erika,
So glad Fuller was able to do this. Unfortunately when we are going it's going to be crowded. I heard 9sI'm just going to call them up and see what they say.

We will be there in 12 days and it looks like 9's and 10's for us too. I think our dates overlap??

Welcome back!!! We missed you

Thanks!!!

 

[maroo]

Don't be too quick to rule out Epcot. It is a beautiful place and Nemo and Friends and the Mexico Boat ride in the pyramid are perfect for young ones, not to mention seeing all the amazing fish and dolphin tanks there. Turtle Talk is also a big hit.

I forgot to mention the Princesses in France at Epcot. I don't know if it is still running, but my daughter really enjoyed Ellen's Energy Adventure with its Dinosaurs and the water play area.

wow! we totally cross posted that! lol

great minds think alike!

 

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