Just wanted to officially welcome aboard:
MommytoJameson - This will be our ds's first trip. he will be 4 in December. I know all kids are different but I would love to hear how your little one did at 2. What he enjoyed, how you planned naps, etc.
Sorry, I'm a little late on my reply! Been working some overtime to save up some spending money for the big trip! LOL When we went last year, he was 2 years 9 months old. He did shockingly well! LOL I work nights, so he had always been a kid that would sleep in until 9:30 or so, and then stay up till about 9:30, so we stuck with that schedule. We never made a rope drop, but at least I had a happy rested child, and he never knew the difference!
We would usually get up around 9:00 and head to the parks, and we usually ended up staying to watch the afternoon parades and then we would leave right after the parade ended to go back to the room for a nap(usually around 3ish). Then we'd sleep a couple hours(even the teens and myself), and then head to our dinner reservations. We stayed in the parks until at least 10. I also had my 2 teen siblings with us, so the night of MNSSHP we even stayed there until midnight, and just slept in until 11 the next morning! LOL
We took a stroller from home, and we will be doing that again next month...he'll be almost 4. It is just TOO MUCH WALKING for a little kid.
My son rode EVERYTHING he was tall enough for, and then cried when he couldn't ride TOT & Splash Mountain with the big kids. He's tall enough this year, so I figure I will let him try it! LOL The only thing that he was scared of was Fantasmic. He had his eyes covered and I had my hands over his ears the entire time!
We'll be skipping it this year!
The weekend crowds were CRAZY at MK. We made the mistake of going there Saturday in between the 2 MNSSHP nights, and it was packed! The one day we had really long lines...45 mins to an hour. So this year we are going Tues thru Tues and I am having Saturday be our "resting day" to just swim at the hotel. I figure we'll just avoid the parks that day!
If you have any more questions, just let me know! My son had a blast, and he remembers everything(even though i had some people say I was crazy for taking him so young and he'd never remember it! LOL) Any time a disney movie or cartoon starts and it shows teh castle he gets excited and say's
Can we go to Mickey's house now?" LOL It's so adorable! And he thinks every airplane he sees is going to "Mickey's house"!
Sorry this was so long! LOL