Bad Idea #1: Take a potty training two year old on a road trip.
Solution: We brought a kiddie potty in the car and just had her use that along the way.
We stayed in Temecula the first two nights near my brother's house. We got to swim in their awesome pool and see their oldest daughter in a play. It was fun, but we didn't see nearly enough of them.
We spent one morning at the beach.
Bad Idea #2: Erica has issues with constipation, so we gave her a children's laxative before going to the beach.
Solution: She has a traumatic poop experience at the beach, but I will spare you the gross details. Let's just say her new Ariel swimsuit cleaned up great.
The next day we drove up to Disneyland. I had great plans to have her meet the princesses and make this the best day of her life.
Bad Idea #3: Take a potty training kid to Disneyland.
Solution: We waste the majority of the day to sit on various public toilets throughout the park (including the special little ones at the baby center) with no success. We return to our hotel for nap time and have two more accidents.
Bad Idea #4: Taking a newborn on Small World = Overstimulation
Solution: Cover her eyes for the entire ride.
After naps, the rest of the day went a little better, she loved the rides and got to meet her princesses. Sadie was a dream baby and caused no problems. However, we decided to forego Disneyland a second day as originally planned. We still had one more night in our hotel, so we googled to find out things to do in Anaheim
Good Idea #1: Adventure City - an amusement park specifically for little kids. Hardly any height requirements, close proximity of rides, clean and a 6th the cost of Disneyland.
Good Idea #2: Buy Erica a sucker to eat for the 8 hour drive home.
7 comments:
It IS so hard to potty train, you wonder if it is such a bad idea to just let your kid stay in diapers forever! Poor little thing about the constipation, that is tough
I'm still marveling at the idea of you taking a newborn on an 8-hour road trip! Throw in the potty-training 2-year old and you are definitely brave!! Sounds like a fun (exhausting!) trip! :)
So glad there were some Good ideas in that post! It was sounding like a pretty "memorable" trip...ha. That sucker is hilarious.
Thanks for that laxative beach tip. That is a good tip.
so I read this right before we ventured on our own trip to Disneyland with a potty trainng 2 yr old and a newborn. I was already thinking we were crazy and your post didn't do much to encourage me... but we had an overall good time and these trips are definitely MEMORABLE if not 100% perfect, right?
holy trip! with all the little things you guys experienced, it still sounds like a grand time! i loved the Ariel swimsuit clean up.. lol, gross but kinda cute? miss ya!
I. Miss. My. BABIES!!! WISH I could have come on that trip with you! Love Erica's expression istting with troy on that ride- she looks so stoked.
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