We Turned Her Into A Disney Lovin', Character Huggin', Thrill Ridin' Girl! COMPLETED 7/11 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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We Turned Her Into A Disney Lovin', Character Huggin', Thrill Ridin' Girl! COMPLETED 7/11
We Turned Her Into A Disney Lovin', Character Huggin', Thrill Ridin' Girl!
This is my first trip report but not our first trip to WDW. We love Disney World! Just to give you a little back story, I went to Disney World for the first time when I was 10 years old. My parents took us to Disney World in July when I was 10 and my brother was 7. We all fell in love with Disney that first trip. The next time I went was when I was a sophomore in High School and I went with the band for Magic Music Days. Then when my brother graduated high school we went as a family again. The next time I went was with my husband for our honeymoon. This was his first trip and he fell in love with Disney. He loves it as much as I do. We have been married for 13 years and we have been to WDW 7 times in those 13 years. Now on to the cast of characters!
This is Asher's 5th trip, Selah's 2nd trip and Wanda's 3rd trip (I really only count it as her first though). We took Asher to WDW for the first time when he was 2. It was an awesome trip seeing him experience the World at that age was so fun. Selah's first trip she was 5 months old. We had planned this trip way in advance and when we found out I was pregnant with Selah was saw no reason to cancel. We knew that we would have a great trip even though she was going to be so little. It turned out to be the right decision because just a few months after that trip Selah started having seizures and things became very difficult for us. Our lives revolved around seizure management, doctors, therapists, etc. There was no time or money for vacations and taking her places proved to be incredibly difficult. Before this trip Wanda had been to the Magic Kingdom 2 times. When I think of going to Disney World I think of the whole World not just a part of it. So when someone says they went to Disney World and then I find out they have only been to the Magic Kingdom I don't consider that a trip to Disney World. That's why I consider this trip with us to be her real first trip. Each time she had been to Magic Kingdom before she had been for just one day.
To help this make more sense to everyone I would like to give you a little more information on Selah. Some of you may have been to her website and read about her but for those of you who have not, here is just a quick explanation. As I just mentioned Selah started having seizures at 7 months old. The seizures are unexplained. She had upwards of 20 seizures a day. At the age of 19 months she regressed to the point of no longer being able to hold her head up or roll over. She lost the two words that she had learned, mama and dada, and she was no longer even crying really. At 20 months old they found a tumor on her left temporal lobe and 3 weeks before she turned 2 she had brain surgery to remove the tumor and the lobe. After this her seizures became controlled by anti-convulsants and her development took off. She was walking by 2 and 1/2! Now she is running, climbing, playing, etc. She is still very far behind developmentally but she is a very happy 5 year old little girl. Once her development took off she started not liking going places. She was not at all interested in being around people, did not like eating in restaurants, shopping going anywhere really other than school and church. Because of this I was not sure how a vacation with her was going to work. We decided that we needed to take another adult with us to help with her. It was between my mom and Jamie's mom. My mom has been to WDW many times now and for most of those times she has been with us so we decided to first see if Jamie's mom wanted to go. We asked and she gave us a very excited "YES". This is the reason behind bringing along DMIL.
I know that was long! Sorry! From now on nothing but fun!
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