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I have 4 kids, didn't take our first trip to WDW until the youngest was 5. It amazes me how parents do it with children so young but looking at your pictures it saddens me that I don't have the same of mine. We plan and plan and plan some more to make the best memories but it's the unplanned moments like when your son takes his sister's hand that are priceless. A great TR, thanks for sharing!
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Sounds like a good day at AK. Even if Cam is a little cranky - little one will do that. I think it is just Nile Crocs on the safari so it was probably an alligator over in Dinoland. My son calls them all crocodiles. They are the one with the pointer mouths.
Great day at AK! Glad you were able to find a tucked away Donald but sorry that your mom wasn't feeling great
We were lucky to find Donald. I think it was one of Mallory's favorite things we did. She loves looking at the pictures from that meet!
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Sounds like a great AK day!!! Love Mallory's face meeting Donald!!!
It was a pretty good day. Minus the dreary weather, but that didn't stop us! Mal loves her some Donald! Although she's now more obsessed with Daisy.
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Overall, sounds like a fun day at AK! Love the pictures of Mallory with Donald.
We managed to have a good time.
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What a great day at AK, sorry your mom was not feeling well. Cam looked like he was having a great time in the Boneyard. Loved the pictures of Mallory with Donald, so cute.
Felt bad that Cam was not tall enough for EE but I am sure that will be the top on his list for the next trip.
I think the kids liked this park a lot. MK was their favorite, but I'm pretty sure AK was second. EE is still a sore spot for Cameron, but he will hopefully be tall enough next time.
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Sounds like a good day! I love the poictures of Mallerie and Donald. The one with her nose issue should be blown up for her first date. LOL
Mal picked her nose a lot while taking pictures on this trip. I have no shortage of pictures to show her future suitors.
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Great day at AK! Even with Mr. Crabby Pants and Mallory's "shoplifting" attempt , you guys did a lot in the park.
He wasn't crabby all day, but it can be a bit annoying even when it doesn't last. I'm actually surprised Mallory wasn't successful at shoplifting something. Kid is like a ninja!
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Great day at AK. Mal sure was into having fun, especially with Donald. Sorry about the problems with Cam.
Life with kids is always up and down. Cam's "issues" weren't that bad and we had a good time. We just had to cater to what he wanted to do.
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I have 4 kids, didn't take our first trip to WDW until the youngest was 5. It amazes me how parents do it with children so young but looking at your pictures it saddens me that I don't have the same of mine. We plan and plan and plan some more to make the best memories but it's the unplanned moments like when your son takes his sister's hand that are priceless. A great TR, thanks for sharing!
I will say that our trips since having kids have been more stressful than trips in the past. It's about 100x more work to bring them along, but still a good time. The kids have a blast and love to talk about the trip and look at pictures. I figure we like going and why should having kids stop us? To some degree you have to modify your life after kids, but when possible we try to incorporate them into what we were already doing. Luckily for us we're big kids and it's easy to include them in WDW trips!
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Great update. The pictures with Donald are priceless.
Thanks!
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Sounds like a good day at AK. Even if Cam is a little cranky - little one will do that. I think it is just Nile Crocs on the safari so it was probably an alligator over in Dinoland. My son calls them all crocodiles. They are the one with the pointer mouths.
I will likely never know the difference as I'm not really that interested in crocagators. But he was happy either way so I don't worry about it.
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Great update!!! I love the picture of Mallory telling Donald a story!!!!!! Love it!!!!
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Thanks! Mallory tells a lot of stories, but was quite animated while talking to Donald. You could tell she loves him!
So I am 100% dedicated to finishing this TR. I only have 1.5 days left for goodness sake. Life and work have sucked all of my time sadly. The kids and I have been fighting colds and I've been on call 24 Hrs for the last month at work. It's been exhausting. Luckily the legislative deadline is next Monday so work should slow down. When it does I'll be back to finish this thing!
Busy time at work is done so it's time to finish this TR up!
February 7th, 2014
This morning we were fairly lazy. I had forgotten to set an alarm and by this late in the trip I think we were all tired. We were heading to the Magic Kingdom to check out what we weren't able to accomplish and also to re-visit some favorites. It was rainy and cold, which didn't help motivate us to get moving.
Eventually we made it to the bus stop, but had quite the wait for a bus. Even so we made it to the park by 10:30 AM. Mallory's mouse ears had a bit of a problem so we headed to get that taken care of. And of course had to put silly things on our heads.
As you can see we already pulled the ponchos out. It was a steady rain all morning. We got Mallory's ears fixed and headed off to Fantasyland for a spin on the tea cups as we had missed them the day before. The kids had a blast and Cameron took his spinning job very seriously.
We had a FP+ for the Barnstormer. We combined it with baby swap and Cameron got to ride with Daddy and then with me. He was on cloud nine. Mallory didn't seem to notice that she was being left out. She happily played while others rode the roller coaster. Since we were already in Fantasyland I tweaked our FP+ for meeting the princesses so that we could take care of that. It was a big pain with the mobile app, but I finally managed. Soon we were meeting Cinderella and Aurora. Cameron was not interested in this at all. He kept saying "No only Mallory." We told him sometimes we had to do things that other people wanted and that he got to ride the roller coaster when Mallory didn't and that he had to at least be nice and let her meet the princesses. He was semi-well behaved and I told the princesses that he was allergic to them. They told me that was a serious condition for him with the little princess he has for a sister.
With Cameron being cranky about the whole thing and Miss Mallory being a little overwhelmed and tired it wasn't the best meet, but Mallie sure does like looking at the pictures of herself with the princesses. Even if she doesn't look happy in the pictures. Also, if you enjoy "Where's Waldo?" I invite you to play "Where's Cam?" He is in every picture even if you can only see a small portion of him.
After meeting up with the princesses we figured we had better get some lunch as the moods of the children were heading in a direction that we didn't want. We had a 12:30 PM BOG FP+, but decided that it would be too long to wait. So sadly we never did make it to BOG. Oh well. Next time. Instead we headed off to Frontierland and grabbed some grub at Pecos Bill's which the kids seemed to enjoy. We had a FP+ for BTMR that we told Cameron about. Well it wasn't time for it after lunch and he wasn't happy. We decided to take a spin on the train and hope by the time we got back it would be time.
Apparently the train is faster than the time it takes a FP+ to ripen - and I couldn't switch it to earlier (I tried) and the line was 60+ minutes long, which isn't good for a 3 year old. We noticed Woody and Jesse out for a meet so we decided to do that. We grabbed some taffy from the gift shop and hopped in their line. Cameron likes Toy Story. It isn't his favorite, but he likes it. I thought he would enjoy meeting Woody. Well... he kept complaining that he wasn't interested. Not a screaming fit - just complaining. We stuck it out in line and it was soon our turn. Cameron was a little rude and refused to get out of his stroller. Oh well buddy.
With the way he was acting about it I almost just got out of line, but decided to stay. And I'm so glad I did as it was my FAVORITE meet of the trip. Of course Cameron never left his stroller and was just kind of pouty, but we had a blast with Woody and Jesse. They paid a lot of attention to Mallory and were just kind of funny with their gestures. Mallory seemed to really like Jesse.
After quite a bit of time I said that we should get going to do something fun with "Mr. Crankypants" and Woody kind of shooed me away and kidnapped my baby! All while telling me to just move along and that he was going to keep her.
Then the high-fives and tickles started.
And the nose picking, which Woody made fun of her for.
And then it was time to leave, which I'm pretty sure Mallory had no interest in. She looked at Daddy's hands and said "no".
I felt kind of bad for Cameron as he was just sitting in his stroller, but then I remembered that he got to ride on rides that Mallory couldn't and she had to wait for him. He could wait for her. Plus he was just pouting and he was going to tackle BTMR in a few minutes. And that's what we did. Cameron was so excited to go on the big roller coaster. And thanks to baby swap he got to ride twice. He rode with me first and then with Daddy. By the time we were done Mallory was fast asleep.
I'm not sure exactly what we did after BTMR, but I'm pretty sure it involved snack time. And then something over in Adventureland as I know right before Mallory woke up we got these baby's:
Cameron LOVED these. And they're my favorite too. Can't believe we missed getting them on our first MK day. Mallory woke up just in time to snag one of the final bites. She enjoyed it, but it wasn't chocolate so I don't think it was her favorite treat.
We had a dinner reservation at O'hana, but had just enough time to fit in another ride. I had a FP+ for Fairytales with Belle, but Cameron said he didn't want to and I didn't want to deal with a crabby child. I suppose I could have just taken Mallory as I really wanted to experience this new attraction, but I decided to swap the Belle FP for a Buzz one. And we did that instead.
Our pictures are soooo attractive. After that it was time to head for the monorail. We wanted pictures with our mouse ears and the castle. Cameron apparently didn't and wouldn't put his back on. So once again he's missing from the pictures. Oh well. Next time maybe he'll participate.
Then we boarded the monorail and headed to dinner.
Love that last pic! Sorry Cam was a bit cranky at the meets, but he did get to ride the roller coasters so only fair! Looks like you were able to get a lot in at MK, and personally, I don't think you missed anything by skipping BOG : but I know many disagree.
Sorry about "Mr. Crankypants" but I have to say - I LOVE the pic of Mallory with Jessie!!! The one where she is sort of pointing at her!!! What a DOLL!!!!
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I really like that last photo of you all looking at the castle - too bad crankypants wouldn't join you - oh wait maybe crankypant shouldn't be there - too bad Cam didn't join you.
Love that last pic! Sorry Cam was a bit cranky at the meets, but he did get to ride the roller coasters so only fair! Looks like you were able to get a lot in at MK, and personally, I don't think you missed anything by skipping BOG : but I know many disagree.
I love that last picture too. I just wish it included Cameron as well. Next time. I'd still like to try BOG sometime, but I know it was a good idea for us to skip it this time.
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Sorry about "Mr. Crankypants" but I have to say - I LOVE the pic of Mallory with Jessie!!! The one where she is sort of pointing at her!!! What a DOLL!!!!
I really ended up liking all of the pictures with Woody and Jessie. That was the best meet of the whole trip!
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This picture is just so funny. You look like your holding on to 300 things.
I think I was holding on to 300 things. And one of them was squirmy.
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Great pictures from MK!
Thanks!
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Sorry Cam was being a crankpants today. Still, it was a great day! Lots of cute pics, especially the ones of Mallorie with Woody and Jessie!
I'm finding with little children there is always a crankypants. At some point during the day at least one of them will be cranky. It was a little disappointing in WDW, but it is what it is. We made the best of it and got some good pictures!
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I really like that last photo of you all looking at the castle - too bad crankypants wouldn't join you - oh wait maybe crankypant shouldn't be there - too bad Cam didn't join you.
I really wish Cameron was in that picture too! But you can't win 'em all. We'll just have to go back and try again!
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I love the pictures of Mallory with Jessie! So cute! I think you all do a great job balancing the likes and dislikes of your two kids.
Thanks! It's harder than I thought pleasing both children. Even more so now since Mallory has more opinions on things, but they have to learn that some people like different things and EVERYONE gets a turn.
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Love the pictures of Mallory with Donald. 
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