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Looks like not to shabby of a day you had there, Cam is too cute. Living with the Land was my DD's first Disney ride too......it's all good, she hardly remembers
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And thanks for the info about Lasik. Maybe I'll have to try again.
Sorry to hijack here, but I talked to my DR about Lasik after I had Josie and his first question to me was if I planned on having more children? He suggested not to get that done until I was for sure about having no more kids, the pregnancy can mess with your vision. I believe this to be true as 2 of my friends had the surgeries, then both had kids a few years later, and now both of their sight has gone back to the way it was before..............random right??
Holy moly -- now that's one souvenir we've never gotten!! Congratulations!!!!
Hope Cameron is feeling better. I am home today with Jacob, who mysteriously woke up with strep throat this morning. Ugh.
The rest of your day at Epcot sounds great. Sorry Cameron didn't like Illuminations, though. I can't believe you walked 11.4 miles -- though as big as Epcot is, I guess I shouldn't be that surprised!
First, for Cameron! Congrats on the priceless Disney souvenir! Great finish to your day! I think the viewing area near the Mexican margarita stand is one of the best for Illuminations.
Congrats on the Disney baby! Sounds like you packed in a full day even with a later start! I am glad Cameron finally took a nap for you so you didn't have to leave Epcot.
Great pics from your day at Epcot! Glad everyone had a great time!
Thanks! We did have a great time. Especially in the evening when I relaxed a little more.
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OMG, awesome news. Congrats on the new baby.
Looks like not to shabby of a day you had there, Cam is too cute. Living with the Land was my DD's first Disney ride too......it's all good, she hardly remembers
Thank you! We did have a pretty good day. It just takes a while to adjust to the new normal of traveling with a toddler. Of course you know all about that. I'm pretty sure Cameron remembers nothing of Living with the Land. He hasn't said a word about it. He won't stop talking about Nemo, Bruce, Choo-Choo, Minne and Cinderella so he's all good.
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Sorry to hijack here, but I talked to my DR about Lasik after I had Josie and his first question to me was if I planned on having more children? He suggested not to get that done until I was for sure about having no more kids, the pregnancy can mess with your vision. I believe this to be true as 2 of my friends had the surgeries, then both had kids a few years later, and now both of their sight has gone back to the way it was before..............random right??
I've heard this too about Lasik. I think they say that you should wait at least 6 months after pregnancy to get it done and also wait until you are for sure done having kids. I do know, however, that the clinic Nate went to he gets free "tweaks" for 10 years. Not sure if he'd want to go through it again, but it's nice to know that if his vision changes at all he can go in and have it fixed for free.
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Great time at Epcot!!
Hope Cameron is feeling better!
And Congratulations on your souvenir
Cameron is doing much better. He's wearing me out again!
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Holy moly -- now that's one souvenir we've never gotten!! Congratulations!!!!
Hope Cameron is feeling better. I am home today with Jacob, who mysteriously woke up with strep throat this morning. Ugh.
The rest of your day at Epcot sounds great. Sorry Cameron didn't like Illuminations, though. I can't believe you walked 11.4 miles -- though as big as Epcot is, I guess I shouldn't be that surprised!
It's probably the most expensive souvenir we've ever gotten. Of course no up front costs. Cameron is feeling better. He still has a bit of a cold, but nothing too terrible. I hope Jacob has a quick recovery. Strep is the worst.
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First, for Cameron! Congrats on the priceless Disney souvenir! Great finish to your day! I think the viewing area near the Mexican margarita stand is one of the best for Illuminations.
Thanks! I did think our spot for Illuminations was pretty good. Of course give me a couple of margarita's and I'll think any viewing spot is pretty good.
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Congrats on the best Disney sourviner ever. And OMG....11.4 miles in one day, can't wait to see how many miles total.
Thank you! I was surprised by 11.4 miles, but then I remembered that Epcot is HUGE. I don't think I've totaled how many miles for the whole trip. I've seen the day by day breakdowns, but never totaled them up. I do know Epcot days have us walking the most.
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Congrats on the Disney baby! Sounds like you packed in a full day even with a later start! I am glad Cameron finally took a nap for you so you didn't have to leave Epcot.
Thank you! We did manage to get a lot done even with not getting to the park until after 11. And we have another day at Epcot so it wasn't that big of a deal that we didn't make it around the WS or to all the other stuff in the park.
Today we had an appointment for Cameron’s first haircut at the Harmony Barber Shop. The appointment wasn’t until 10:30, but I wanted to make sure we were in the park by 10 AM at the latest and with waiting for the buses and such I knew we had to leave by 9 AM so I set my alarm for 6:30 AM. I don’t think my in-laws were happy about having to get up that early on vacation, but they wanted to be there for Cameron’s haircut so they didn’t complain that much.
Nate and I got ready and then had to wake Cameron up. He was a bit crabby about this, but the second we mentioned he could take a tubby bath he was all smiles. Of course we had shipped the bath toys we bought in Epcot back to the room and they hadn’t arrived yet. Oh well, he still had fun in the bath. I, however, did not have fun. Kneeling by the tub reminded me that I did in fact slip and bang my knee the other day. Luckily, kneeling was the only time my knee bugged me the entire trip, but man did it HURT when I gave Mr. Man a bath!
We managed to leave the room by 9:15 AM and had good luck with a bus arriving shortly thereafter. We made it to Magic Kingdom by 10 AM and got our locker and such. Then we had talked about going back to the front to have our picture taken by a PhotoPass photographer. I went to change Cameron’s diaper and then half of our group was gone! I finally spotted them taking pictures of the castle. I sent Nate to go get them so we could sneak in our entrance pictures before Cameron’s haircut. And Nate stood there talking to them for FOREVER and started taking pictures himself. This kind of bugged me and I think I may have yelled at Nate a little telling him that if he wanted the pictures done now that we needed to get going so that we could make it back in time to check in for Cameron’s haircut. We managed to get our pictures taken:
Then it was time to check in for Cameron’s haircut. We had a bit of a wait, but I think it was good as Cameron got to watch a few other little boys get their haircut so he knew what was going to happen. We took some before pictures:
He probably should have had his haircut a while ago, but I wanted him to have his first real haircut at the Magic Kingdom. I guess it doesn’t really matter as his hair is now fixed and strangers have stopped referring to him as a she. I am glad I waited for him to get his haircut here. They were great! First the woman cutting his hair loaded him up with stickers:
Then it was time to get down to business:
He was pretty good throughout the whole haircut. He did get a little squirmy halfway through so the lady gave him a Lightening McQueen toy. Which he actually really enjoyed. Contrary to what this picture may have you believe:
I’ll admit I teared up a bit while he was getting his locks chopped off. He ended up looking like such a little boy. He was definitely no longer my baby! He got his ears and his little certificate:
“What do you think Cameron?”
“Hummm…”
After his haircut we made our way over to Fantasyland. On the way we stopped for more PhotoPass pictures:
When we got to Fantasyland I checked the Lines app and saw that Winnie the Pooh only had a 10 minute wait so we headed to Peter Pan and grabbed FastPasses and were then going to head over to ride Pooh. Well when we got to Pooh it had a 25 minute wait. I checked the app again and it still said 10 min! I tried using this app a few other times as well and it was wrong just about every time. I took a few pictures of the Fantasyland construction but only one turned out:
We checked out It’s a Small World and that too had a 20 minute wait so we passed for now and headed to the Tea Cups. Jean and Jim decided to sit this one out so Nate, Breanna and I took Cameron for his first spin in a giant tea cup. We weren’t sure if we should spin it all that much as we weren’t sure if Cam could handle it. Cameron seemed a little bored so we increased the spin. I’m not sure how Breanna felt about this:
Cameron and I on the other hand had a great time:
Breanna must have changed her mind somewhere along the lines:
Up next we took a spin on the Carousal:
Cameron just loves those and didn’t want to get off. We managed to distract him with the sword in the stone:
We stopped to see PhillarMagic. Nate wasn’t so sure if Cameron would like this show and he thought it might be a little too long for him. I knew he liked Donald so I thought we should give it a try. He wouldn’t keep the 3-D glasses on, but he sat through the whole show and seemed happy.
After that we used our Peter Pan FastPasses. Nate insists we went on this ride on our Honeymoon, but even after riding it I don’t think we did. Cameron seemed to like flying. He doesn’t know Peter Pan, but he likes pirates and said “Yo-Ho” a few times during the flight.
Our tummies were grumbling by this point so we stopped at Pinocchio Village Haus for lunch. It was decent food and did the trick as everyone seemed to have a burst of energy after lunch. We headed over to grab FastPasses for Space Mountain as that was the ONLY thing Breanna really cared about doing today. On our way to Tomorrowland we managed to catch a bit of the Dream Along with Mickey show. After grabbing the FastPasses we headed on over to Adventure land to check in on some Tiki Birds.
Great day so far at MK! Cameron looks so cute with his new haircut! Love the pics of him getting it cut! His expressions are great! We were at DHS that day.
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Great finish to your day! I think the viewing area near the Mexican margarita stand is one of the best for Illuminations. 
Cameron is doing much better. He's wearing me out again!
Cameron is feeling better. He still has a bit of a cold, but nothing too terrible. I hope Jacob has a quick recovery. Strep is the worst.
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