DisneyCowgirl
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2004
OP here.
I saw this thread as one of the "Recommended threads" at the bottom of the page, and re-read it. I had some great laughs.
And I'm happy to say that my now almost-18-year-old is heading off to college this fall, unafraid of Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck. In fact, starting our trip at Chef Mickey's has become a tradition, and each time we eat there we reminisce about that memorable tantrum that started our 2008 trip. We've managed not to lose our youngest on any of our subsequent trips. And my now 16 year old older daughter still sometimes wants things, but the difference is that she now has a job and it's her own money that pays for it.
Things have a way of working out.
Love this!
We recently retold this story of a trip when our boys were 6 and 3. They kept running ahead of us to the elevators, and once when they were about to get on one when the grownups weren't going to get on, my husband, who has a potty mouth, called out, "Don't get on that bleep elevator." Later in the trip, the 3-year-old was sitting in the stroller while I was talking to the guest services guy at Wilderness Lodge. The kid in the stroller looked up at the guy who was next in line and repeated that phrase to him, word for word.
I was so embarrassed. Still get uncomfortable thinking about it.
That kid is now 7. On our trip last month, he melted down in Epcot after we had only been there about an hour. DH got him a stroller, even though I insisted that I was NOT getting a stroller for my spoiled 7-year-old. So yeah--once again we were THAT family. The one that gets a stroller for their 7-year-old.