DH and I went to WDW right at the very start of the YOAMD, in September 2006, when they were still taking down the Golden Anniversary decorations, and we got one of the first little dreams.
DS1 was 21 months old, and I was pregnant with DS2. We hadn't planned on going to WDW in 2006, with DS so little and the new baby due, but then DH found out he had to be in Orlando for business in September. I had a free flight credit that had to be used, so we decided to go on the spur of the moment, booking a bargain room at Pop Century and budgeting everything super-carefully. We only took the cash we'd set aside for each day to the park with us.
So we're standing in front of the Main Street Bakery, DH and I and our very tired toddler, hungry for a snack before the fireworks and the long bus ride back to the Pop. It's been quite a while since dinner; we stayed much later than we thought. I check the stroller basket, and we're down to one jar of baby food and about five Cheerios. DH and I count up the money we have left, and it's just enough to buy one, yes one, chocolate chip cookie. We can't even afford a drink to go with it. But hey, all three of us get in line anyway, because darn it, we're going to get our one chocolate chip cookie and split it three ways.
At the counter we place our order, and the counter CM looks at us, laughs, and tells us to wait a moment. She disappears into the back. When she comes out, she's gathered a group of four or five bakery CM's, and they all start all clapping as she presents us with a gigantic chocolate chip cookie. It's one of those enormous ones, so big that you can use it instead of a birthday cake, about a foot across, and they tell us that it is free because of the YOAMD.
We are so surprised; we really didn't have any idea what the YOAMD was all about. We manage to say "Thank you, thank you!" and then as we take the monstrous cookie, DS spots it. He knows exactly what chocolate chip cookies are; he doesn't get them often, but he loves them. And he has never seen a cookie like this in his 21 months in this world. His eyes get huge, he starts laughing and bouncing up and down in the stroller, and signs "More! More! More! More!" as fast as he can move his little hands, because HE WANTS THAT COOKIE.
We gave him the whole entire cookie to hold, and he took a bite and looked as if he'd visited heaven. It was so funny. Then we sneaked it out of his hands, split it into more manageable pieces, and all of us got to have our snack. That cookie lasted through the fireworks, the bus ride, snacks the next day, dessert the next night, and DS even had a little of it on the airplane home. For us, it was the perfect little dream.
Congrats again!
So glad everything worked out for you. 
