"So is this when they bring out the Mickey Mouse cattle prods??" Final Thoughts 1/10!

[Mndisneygirl]

CONGRATS!!!

So sorry about the morning sickness. I hope it doesn't last long!

Hey - don't worry about the TR - I haven't been too quick with mine either, and I don't have nearly as good of an excuse!!
You take care of yourself!

 

[SoonerGirl]

Awwww, congratulations gelly, that's awesome news (aside from the sickness that is). There are some super cute Sooner baby outfits around here, I should send you one, maybe we can start this baby off on the right track!

 

[Jasperann]

Congrats!!! I'm so happy for you! Hope the morning sickness doesn't last too long.

 

[brookelizabeth]

GELLY!!!!!!!!!!! That is wonderful news!



I hope that morning sickness goes away - did it ever stop with the other 2, or was it a whole pregnancy thing?

Maybe you can rope in a helper for Jack-Jack during the day so you can relax/rest some too.

 

[jc040404]

CONGRATS!!! Hope the morning sickness doesn't stick around very long!

 

[gellybean]

Thank you all!!

We're still adjusting to our news around here. Still in the suspended disbelief stage.

This Tuesday was the worst day I've had so far morning sickness wise. Thankfully the last two days have been manageable. I'm kinda taking things one day at a time. Both the boys and Mr. I are being huge helps!

My mom is coming down next week to help out with Jack Jack while I go to my first OB appointment. I'm already seeing an Endo for gestational diabetes, not taking any chances of going undiagnosed for too long this time.

With my last two pregnancies, the morning sickness has lasted well into the second trimester. Hoping that it will slowly taper off this time so that we can still enjoy our Christmas trip! I'm gonna go if I have to take a matching barf bag! Sorry if TMI!

It should be completely gone before mine and Mr. Incredible's trip in January!

No drinking or crazy rides for me but I'll just be so stinking happy to be over the morning sickness, I won't care!

Do y'all think Soarin' is ok while pregnant?

I wouldn't attempt EE or RnRC or ToT (though I love it) but I think I may try Soarin'. Is there an official list somewhere for this kinda thing?

Again, thank you all for the kind words and wishes!! I'll keep you posted as I feel able to!

 

[stayhomemom77]

Good question...I wonder if there is a list somewhere?? It would suck to think that something was prolly okay and then get there and see the "pregnant women should not ride" signs.

I'd go on Soarin' myself. It's not a rough ride so isn't likely to hurt baby. Frankly I'm not sure any of the ones I've been on would make me worried and likely to sit them out, but then our kids are small and we've passed over all the "intense" rides so far. Hoping to get to experience some of the on our upcoming trip.

I totally stole the following from this website: http://www.passporter.com/wdw/pregnant.htm

I don't know how old this is, cause I've never even heard of Body Wars and I'm thinking that some of the MK listings would be fine, but then I guess it all depends on how each person feels with each pregnancy.

6. Avoid attractions with health restrictions. These restrictions are always posted at the attraction itself, or you can check the PassPorter Walt Disney World guidebook to find out before you go. In general, you want to avoid rides that are bumpy, cause dizziness, or accelerate too quickly. Epcot is the most pregnant-friendly park -- only two attractions, Test Track and Body Wars, are off-limits. At Magic Kingdom, just say no to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Splash Mountain, Dumbo (if you get nauseous easily), Magic Carpets of Aladdin, Mad Tea Party, The Barnstormer, Astro Orbiter, Space Mountain, and the Tomorrowland Indy Speedway. At Disney-MGM Studios, stay off Star Tours, Rock n' Roller Coaster, and the Tower of Terror. At Disney's Animal Kingdom, avoid Kali River Rapids and Dinosaur. Kilimanjaro Safaris carries a health restriction, but many pregnant women (including Jennifer's sister) feel okay about it. If you decide to go on the Kilimanjaro Safaris, ask the cast member if you can ride in the wheelchair-accessible vehicle -- it isn't as bumpy as the others. If you're not certain if a particular ride is for you, have your significant other try it out first and then report back. If you opt out of a ride, you can either shop in a nearby gift shop (there's always one around) or stay in the queue with your party until boarding and then ask for the "chicken exit."

 

[brookelizabeth]

From what I have read, Soarin' is okay. The Safari also doesn't have a warning on it, but the back is sooooo bumpy, that one would make me nervous - I like the tip below from Passporter about riding in the handicapped accessible car!

 

[gellybean]

Little personal update:

Things are looking better on my end.

I'm having more good days than bad. Thank the Lord! I'll be 10 wks this Saturday and the hormones seem to be tapering off. I'm still doing a lot of laying down, sitting down, taking it easy but the nausea and the weird hormonal feelings aren't nearly as bad. For a while nothing felt good, tasted good, looked good. No book, tv show, movie, activity was fun. It was awful.
But thankfully, things seemed to have turned a corner. I'm ecstatic. I'll actually be able to enjoy Thanksgiving and get into the planning of our upcoming trip!

AND

I'm actually uploading pictures for the next update for this TR as I type!

I'd really like to get this TR finished before we leave in 33 days!

Thank you all for hanging in there!! Hopefully I can get the update done this week!

 

[nessz79]

Joining in! Great trip report!

Also, congratulations!! I hope you have a great pregnancy!

 

[kmrein]

Joining in, too.....CONGRATULATIONS!

 

[Mndisneygirl]

YAY! I'm so glad you're starting to feel better! You'll probably be feeling really good around the holidays and your trip, so that's perfect!!

Looking forward to seeing more pictures! I have been really slow on my TR too, but I have no excuse but general busy - ness!

 

[jc040404]

Sooooo happy to hear things are starting to improve for you! I'd been wondering how you were. Early pregnancy can be so miserable sometimes. I hope it keeps moving in this direction for ya!

 

[gellybean]

I believe we had a wake up call set for around 10:30am this morning. Which after our late evening swim, the extra time to sleep in was appreciated by all. We had reservations at T-Rex Cafe for lunch and I did not want to miss this ADR with two little boys.

We all took turns showering, getting ready after the phone rang. Jack Jack was the first one up again and eagerly listening to the phone call from Mickey and Stich.

I snapped a few pics of sleepy boys as we mulled around the room getting ready.

Dash in bed while Jack Jack answers the phone.

Jack Jack loves his big brother!

We made our way out of the room and through the GCH in plenty of time. As we turn the corner walking out the first floor front door, we see a DTD sitting at the stop. WE hoof it. I run, my MOM runs!! IT was awesome. The bus driver took pity on us and waited for us to make it on the bus. We quickly dumped Jack Jack out of his stroller, folded it up and jumped on the bus. YAY for Disney bus magic!

Whew! We made it!

We took the back roads to DTD, the same route we'd taken in on the ME and it didn't seem to take too long. Soon enough we were walking the all too familar path through DTD toward the other side where T-Rex is.

We arrive for our lunch ADR early and are told we can't get in any earlier than 15 mins before our ADR time.

Ok no worries. We head to the Lego store to kill some time and to get out of the heat and humidity. It's supposed to rain that day so I have the boys rain coats packed under the stroller and have umbrellas stuck in just in case.

The boys enjoy the Lego store, especially Dash.

We make our way back to T-Rex and check in to be seated immediately into a pretty empty restaurant. Was kinda surprised. We were in the Sponge Bob room so no dinosaurs right above us but we could see plenty from where we were and the meteor shower was very cool to observe from a far. Especially with Jack Jack who is not sure he likes loud noises some days.

Dash loved it!

We ordered the onion rings and the fried cheese aps, mainly for the boys. Mom and I shared a burger, both boys got the dino shaped chicken nuggets and Mr. I got the chicken salad sandwich on pizza bread. The food was surprisingly good, much much better than Rainforest Cafe imo.

Making his dino nugget ROAR!

We took a few pictures on our way to the restroom after we were done eating,

then did a little shopping (I JUST remembered I bought Dash a shirt from there and have no clue where is it!!! UGH! Better go digging through his closet).

We also got both the boys pressed pennies

and bought Jack Jack the little bag of all the dinosaur figures. Really the only thing we got Jack Jack souvie wise the whole trip.

We made our way out of there, skillfully avoiding the dig site... didn't have the patience to wait for the kids to play in the heat! And made our way down toward WoD.

I got my shop on... and Jack Jack got his meltdown on. He was fussy and not wanting to cooperate. I think he was still operating on a sleep deficit from the whole week! Because it wasn't that late yet but he was already done with this whole shopping business.

Mom got him a sucker and that worked long enough for me to get the few things I needed to get.

Mr. I tried to push the stroller around in the main area of the store under the big screen tvs to entertain him. I grab my wallet out of my bag, tell Mr. I that I'll be right back to wait there, and head to check out with Mom, planning on using her AP discount, which is technically a no no if she's not the one paying but they let me!

When I turn back around after a VERY short aka I was the only person in line, Mr. I and the boys are no where to be found. Mom and I walk around thinking he'd just pushed him around a bit to keep him happy. No Mr. I, no Dash, no Jack Jack.

We walked into the kids area again and check near the bathrooms thinking that Dash had maybe needed to use the facilities and they were over there. Nope.

Hung around out side of the door of the men's restroom thinking I might hear their voices through the opening of the door occasionally and nothing. I think we circled that store three times. I finally peeked outside toward the shaded bench area by the fountains and Basin. No one.

I'm starting to get mad and a little scared. I mean realistically it's not like they were lost. It's not like someone had kidnapped Mr. I. It's not like we wouldn't have ended up meeting back up at the hotel eventually but seeing as how all I had grabbed out of my bag was my wallet I didn't exactly have my cell phone. Mom didn't have hers with us. It was in the room.

*sigh*

Finally after at least a half an hour looking for them in the store, we walk out of the store far enough to see them sitting next to the Italian ice cart across from Ghiradelli's.

REALLY!???

I mean looking back now I get it.... he was trying to appease Jack Jack... but right that second, all I was, was MAD. My husband had scared the poo out of me and there they were eating ices while I hunted and hunted around the store from them.

The first thing out of his mouth was... hey what took you so long?


EXCUSE ME!!!!




Not the right thing to say to me at the moment.


I promptly let him know EXACTLY what had taken ME so long.

His response... but I texted you!

To which I picked up my bag that was sitting on the top of the stroller, right in front of his face and said... you mean you texted my phone that you had with YOU all along?!?

His response....


Oh.







It's funny now but I was furious then. I couldn't believe he would leave the store with both my kids and not tell me. Not send Dash over to let me know. Not walk the 20 ft to where we were checking out. Not look down and SEE my purse sitting there on top ... not underneath buried under a ton of stuff but on TOP of the stroller.

I left them sitting there and I went and shopped some more in Basin. I needed to cool off.

We ended up at Ghiradelli's which HAD been the plan before the impromptu purchase of the Italian ice's. I was the only one that wanted anything at that point but I was not about to not get my sundae.

We shared a Gold rush and I swear to y'all I popped a blood vessel in my leg while we were sitting there. Guess my blood pressure was a little high.

Throughout this whole day we had been trying to figure out how to get the rental car. We had a dilemma. Mom had to be with me to get it... long story involving a discount and her credit card... and I was not fond of Mr. I getting both boys on the bus by himself and back to the room safely. I just didn't see how he was going to hold the stroller and Jack Jack while on the bus and get on and off safely. And bless Dash's heart sometimes he's helpful to the extreme and sometimes he's not.

So we had called Enterprise. They were gonna come pick Mom and I up in front of WoD and we were gonna leave Mr. I and the boys to play in the fountains. We tried desperately to get Jack Jack to nap in his stroller and he was NOT having it.

Mom and I went to get the rental car, and right as we left the hotel it started raining. Here I am trying to drive a strange car, can't find the lights, can't find the wipers.

Mom decides as we're driving that she's gonna get in the back seat. I'm like no way... but she does it. I was amazed at my 67 yr old mom climbing between the front seat and back seat in a moving vehicle. She's got skills from back in the 50s me thinks.




This is where we did the big NO NO.

PLEASE Please please don't flame me. I honestly did what I thought was best considering a nearly impossible logistically situation.

We let Jack Jack ride in the back seat of the car without his car seat.




I know I know. But he's nearly 40 lbs and he had a seat belt and at that time it was safer to do this than to trust that he'd be safe on a bus with only one adult.

So we pick them up and they jump in the car and the boys are SOAKED from playing in the fountains and the rain.

Incriminating evidence!

We drive slowly and carefully via the same back roads the bus took back to the Poly.

And Mr. I just stops the car and dumps us out.... but not under the valet portico.

Oh no.

He stops in the middle of the road that runs in front of the parking lot without a warning and tells us to get out. We're grabbing packages, strollers, wet kids without shoes with two cars and a bus behind us.

REALLY!?!?!

I coulda smacked him.

But we make it and head to the room and get the boys bathed and cleaned up and in bed and in a matter of minutes they are both OUT! Lights out!

Mom is planning on taking a nap too but Mr. I and I aren't tired. She tells us to go ahead and get ready. This way if Jack Jack wakes up cranky, he won't get a chance to get upset by watching us leave. So we get ready really really early for our date night and head out....


Up next: What on earth will we find to do for 3 hrs before our date?
Will we enjoy our Cali Grill dinner? Would the boys behave for their MeMaw?


STAY TUNED!!

 

[gellybean]

Joining in! Great trip report!

Also, congratulations!! I hope you have a great pregnancy!

Thanks for reading and thanks for the congrats!!

Joining in, too.....CONGRATULATIONS!

THANK YOU!!

YAY! I'm so glad you're starting to feel better! You'll probably be feeling really good around the holidays and your trip, so that's perfect!!

Looking forward to seeing more pictures! I have been really slow on my TR too, but I have no excuse but general busy - ness!

Feeling sooooo much better and so thankful for it. I think I'll be FINE just in time for our trip and the holidays!!

Slow TRs happen!! At least I have an excuse this time. My last two took forever and I had no such excuse!

Sooooo happy to hear things are starting to improve for you! I'd been wondering how you were. Early pregnancy can be so miserable sometimes. I hope it keeps moving in this direction for ya!

Thank you!! It can be awful. This one seems to be getting better sooner than my last two, thank God because with two little kids being down for the count is just impossible!! I hope it keeps moving in the right direction for me too!!

 

[gellybean]

Hey everyone!

13 days til we leave for our Christmas trip which means 13 days to get this puppy finished! I have our date night update and then our departure day with a handful of pics from our time at MIL's house then I'm finished!!


Hoping to get it done this weekend!

Thank you all for hanging in there with me through the pregnancy speed bumps! Definitely feeling mostly better now. Haven't had to take any anti-nausea meds in over a week!

I'm taking them with me to WDW just in case but think I'll be ok without them. The one thing I've found is that I HAVE to eat every 2 -3 hrs. Oh woe is me I know! What better place to be than Disney when you have to eat?!

I am counting carbs and sugars though so I'll have to be really careful with the choices I make, but it's doable!

Stay tuned for another update for this TR soon!!




And don't be shy! Love to read your comments!

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Hey gelly!! You must be getting so excited!!! I would be. I was there last year in December and wish I was going back now!

I have to wrap up my TR from July as well, but have longer until my next trip - does that mean I get longer to finish the TR??

Glad to hear you're feeling better. Just in time right?

By the way, I don't think I commented before - that picture of Jack Jack with the sauce dripping from his mouth? ADORABLE!!!! Your boys are so cute!

 

[jc040404]

I completely missed your last update.

I can totally understand how upset you were over them leaving the store. Dh has done this to me before. You realize everyone is probably just fine, but running around looking for them like that.. Geesh! It is kinda funny too though.

I would've been a mess driving without the carseat, but no flames from me. You did what was safest at the time. He was much better off buckled in that car than trying to deal with the bus the ways things were. Those buses scare me enough as it is! We've yet to use one.

So glad to hear you're feeling better and hope you feel great during your Christmas trip! How exciting that it's sooo close!

 

[brookelizabeth]

Incriminating evidence!

That is such a cute pic!!!! I love how Jack-Jack has his arms around them both. And NO flames from me. (you'd be surprised how often kids do go without carseats in normal life-carseats weren't even required here in NYC about 5 years ago!)

Sorry to hear about all the craziness with Mr. I. Seriously, men just don't get it sometimes.

So glad you are feeling better!!! Your trip is so stinkin' close-I hope you are getting all those last minute things done!

 

[2kids2luv]

Congratulations on becoming a mommy of 3! Hopefully the worse of your morning sickness is done.

Wow - I was really behind on your TR. Great updates of DTD and baby news. Can't wait to hear about date night.