What an incredible experience! I won't do a full-on trip report or play-by-play of our couple of days, but I will definitely share what it was like to take a 3 month old baby to The Happiest Place on Earth!
I think Kevin and I were honestly just blessed with a laid-back baby (knock on wood), and I honestly think that played a significant part in our experience, but this trip wasn't much different than others for us, minus the rides (and over-indulgence of alcohol). We enjoy Disney for the way it makes us feel, so doing things isn't always our top priority. And that's exactly what I would tell someone taking a baby for the first time... don't have any expectations or expect to be able to accomplish anything. Our one goal for this weekend was to get pictures... and lots of them. And that's exactly what we did.
She may not know who they are, but she LOVED staring at the characters! And they all loved her too! Each one spent so much time with her. Touching her feet, letting her grab their fingers, giving her *kisses*. These pictures are priceless to Kevin and I. And hopefully if McKenna likes Disney HALF as much as her Mommy and Daddy, they will be priceless to her too. I'm so happy we will have these to share with her one day when she is older.
Three words: PLAN PLAN PLAN. The biggest hassle: I would have to easily say just STUFF. Packing and planning for a trip with a baby is no small task. (I have a pretty thorough packing list I will blog about another day). And we saw that with our trip to Jacksonville a couple weeks back, but for a theme park is even different. Not just for the entire trip is packing a pretty big feat, but also staying in a hotel room and planning to spend several hours out in the sun.... away from all of your STUFF.
SUN! That was my greatest fear! How to keep our baby protected. McKenna's Ped was no help, a huge contradiction: "we don't recommend sunscreen before 6 months, but if she's in the sun we recommend sunscreen. And No, we don't recommend brands. They're all the same." Wow. What a crock of garbage. We're considering a new Ped after that phone call (which, by the way, was the nurse on the phone not the doctor). So I elected to rethink her wardrobe and bypass the sunscreen altogether. All of her litle dresses I had planned for her to wear I ended up sticking leggings and socks under them with a big brim hat with her headbands on her head. She barely got touched by sun the entire weekend except for the last day when we wanted to get a picture in front of the castle..... but we booked it out of the park immediately after.
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