We took our
youngest two when they were 2 and 3. We
have taken our youngest granddaughter when she was 2 and I was able to take a
side trip to Chef Mickey’s with my youngest granddaughter last December when
she was 18 months and she fell in LOVE with Mickey!
Will they
remember every detail of their first trip?
No, but then again I have been over 15 times as an adult and I do not
remember every detail of that first trip with my two youngest. In fact there are tons of gaps in my memories
of each trip. But remembering that trip
and having fun memories is not the same thing.
Because we definitely had fun on each and every trip
Would I
personally take a newborn…no way! I
would be a nervous wreck worrying about all the germs and sickness they could
catch. A newborn is just that …NEW. Am I
saying it is not a good idea?
Maybe. That would depend entirely
on the mother and child. Some babies
are like my oldest one…nothing phases him.
He could sleep through anything (and frequently did) Loved to look
around at new things and was a very pleasant baby! My second one…I did not even take him to church
without lots of back up! He was a crier…no
particular reason, he just liked to cry.
Cried when he was happy, cried when he was sad, cried when he was
hungry, cried when he was full. Taking
him to Disney would have been a disaster to me and everyone within a mile of
him…did I forget to mention he had GREAT lungs!
Some moms are easily distracted and over worry about everything
(probably where I would fall in this category) and would not have fun…so why
go? Others, seem to have a sixth sense
that everything will work out right in the end.
Nothing phases them and they just go with the flow. They are the types that can take a Newborn to
Disney and not have a single problem.
As far as
when is the right age… If the child has an idea of who the characters are, even
a small one, they will love it! My
youngest granddaughter only rarely sees anything Disney. She knows their names (thanks to a present
she got from my first Disney cruise) but that is about it. She knew every character that came to talk
with her. She was especially in love
with both Mickey and Minnie.
After
breakfast we rode the monorail over to the Grand Floridian to see the
Gingerbread house. There was one store
front who had a Mickey Mouse display in their window. Miss Mia kept running back to the window and
squealing Mickey Mouse! Mickey Mouse! To
say it was hard to get her away from it was an understatement. She loved him and wanted to go back and see
him…over and over and over!
(My
apologies to the person who had to wash the kisses and hand prints off the
window)
She loves Mickey and Minnie so much more now that she has met them in person. She very rarely sees them on TV but she has always had a few toys of them. Ever since we got back from the trip, Minnie and Mickey are her two favorite toys. If she does not remember the exact day, I know she remembers loving them more for some reason... maybe it was a dream. But don't Disney dreams really come true?
ReplyDeleteOf course they do!
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