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Congrats on your big news! I love the idea of two boys!! I always try to think of what two names sound best together so when you are yelling for both boys, it just flows! So Dylan and (I like Nathan or Ethan). Plus depends on what middle name you want too. I think Dylan will love having a baby brother!
Great start to your ptr!!
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Sammy 5 years and Peyton 15 months - September 2013
Congrats on the baby boy! Your boys will be the best of friends I'm sure!
Thanks! I sure hope so!
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Kelly Dylan looks adorible in your new Siggie picture. Think of it on a bright side with a household of boys(even with a baby boy coming), you're still
the Princess amongst them!
I told Mike this means I just get to do more girly things myself.
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Congratulations!!!!! Boys are awesome!!!! As someone said, they really do love their Moms!! Even with the ages of my boys (almost 15 & 22), I love the lack of drama that my friends with girls are always complaining about! And for a name.....my vote is for NATHAN!!!
I had a feeling you'd pick Nathan. I wonder why that would be???
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I have 2 boys and they ROCK! I dont wanna leave my DD out I LOVE HER TOO! LOL
I Like ETHAN! Thats my youngest ones name!
Thanks! Unfortunately DH nixed Ethan - sorry!
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I am surrounded by boys...my 2, my stepson and of course my DH (cause as you know...they never grow up. ) And you KNOW that bond between a boy and his Mommy!! You'll always be the princess for your little princes. Congratulations!!!!
Oh I know DH's don't grow up either - he's almost worse than Dylan.
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Congrats on the boy Kelly!
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Congrats on another boy, Kelly!
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Congrats on the new baby boy!
Thanks Marnie, Cam, & Cheryl!
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Having 2 boys is great! They can share toys, clothes, and VIDEO GAMES!
Best of all no one touches my Tinker Bell umbrella!!!
LOL! Too true - they'll stay away from all my Cinderella stuff.
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Oh boy....2 boys. Congrats, that's wonderful. my vote is for Nathan btw
Thanks!
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Congrats on your big news! I love the idea of two boys!! I always try to think of what two names sound best together so when you are yelling for both boys, it just flows! So Dylan and (I like Nathan or Ethan). Plus depends on what middle name you want too. I think Dylan will love having a baby brother!
Great start to your ptr!!
We have decided that the baby will have Michael (after DH) as a middle name.
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Yay! You've started!
I will be spending my 40th in the World with adults only in just a mere 3&1/2 years. Yes, I am planning early because I going all out. Staying at the Poly with the DDP and more extras!
Congrats on another boy! Sorry I have two girls, so I can't help in that area.
I hope you guys have a great trip, just the two of you!
Yay! You've started!
I will be spending my 40th in the World with adults only in just a mere 3&1/2 years. Yes, I am planning early because I going all out. Staying at the Poly with the DDP and more extras!
Congrats on another boy! Sorry I have two girls, so I can't help in that area.
I hope you guys have a great trip, just the two of you!
Thanks Liz!! It's never too early to plan - I was keeping a list of things I might want to do for this trip - although not too many of them are we actually doing - more because being 7+ months pregnant I don't want to overdue it.
I think I better space this out a little more, so I’ll just let you know our plans one day at a time:
Day 1 – 8/7/10
Our flight leaves STL at 6:45am so we’ll be leaving for the airport around 4:30-5am I would say. We don’t live far from the airport and at that time of day it won’t be crowded (we’ve left that early before and we’re like the only non workers there). Dylan will be with my parents this day and we’ll probably drop him off the night before so we may stay there too as my Dad will most likely be the one dropping us off at the airport.
Our flight is scheduled to arrive in Orlando at 10:05am and once it does we’ll be heading to DME for our bus to AKL. We hope to be there by 11:30am and are hoping our room will be ready too.
Speaking of our room, I’m having it decorated for our birthdays! I looked into having the Disney Florist do it, but it’s expensive – like a couple 100 bucks for things we don’t really need or will want. So I e-mailed the AKL IPO and they said they would decorate for me!!! I’ll be sending down a box of decorations to them early that week. I’m so excited they’re doing this for us – and what’s even better is that Mike has no idea – it’s a surprise for him!!
If our room’s ready we plan to get settled, grab some snacks from the lounge, and take it easy until we need to head out to DHS for our 2:30pm ADR at Sci-Fi. This is an ADR we added after our initial plans, and actually I was going to surprise Mike with this too, but he kept talking about missing Sci-Fi, so I spilled the beans. We L-O-V-E Sci-Fi and we’ve been there on every trip so it’s not Disney unless we go. J After our late lunch Mike may take a flight to Endor and maybe we’ll shop around a bit. We’ll be back here in a few days.
Once we’re done at DHS, we’ll take a bus to POFQ as I really want to try some beignets and have a look around. Then we’ll take the boat to DtD to shop around there. Of course we’ll have to go to World of Disney and I want to look in Trend-D and I’m sure Mike will want to spend a bit of time in the new Vinylmation store. We may head back to the room to drop stuff off or rest for a bit.
The only other plans tonight are to go to MK to see the Main Street Electrical Parade, which I CANNOT wait for!!!
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As someone said, they really do love their Moms!! Even with the ages of my boys (almost 15 & 22), I love the lack of drama that my friends with girls are always complaining about!
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