...but I am going to hold back and keep this post specifically about Disney after graduation.
Who knew Disney could get even better than it had been?!
(If you want to see a sampling of our other Disney pix- feel free to check out our facebook albums.)
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| WELCOME TO MY KINGDOM! |
---instead of having to pay Jetblue prices, we were able to score a crazy deal on Southwest! Traveling with Southwest would have been impossible before OIT... you see- Southwest gives out peanuts!!! If you indicate 'peanut allergy' on the ticket, they will give out other snacks instead, BUT the plane could still be full of peanut dust from a prior flight and therefore we never in a million years would have flown southwest pre-graduation.
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| check out 'southwest' on the tail |
Next---
---last winter break Coby was so sad he couldn't get a Ghiradelli milkshake since it still wasn't safe for him.
This is from last year him begging for a shake
In that very moment we promised him once he finished OIT we'd get him a Ghiradelli milkshake the next time we were back. Well- that moment was upon us:
Later that day Coby happened to look up at the ceiling and said, "Mom, the ceiling has hives!"
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| bumpy ceiling |
...Unfortunately arrival day was not without its bumps, no pun intended. Coby ended up having a reaction post dosing. Thankfully it limited itself to just hives, but we had to page the doctor and ended up treating him.
Sigh.
While we were not off to a great start, the rest of vacation was fantastic. (Each morning Coby ate breakfast and then dosed. He spent the first period of observation time in the hotel. We then WALKED to the car. And then walked in the parks until close to 3 hours had passed. We didn't even allow him to go on any adrenaline producing rides til the end of the three hour window just to play it safe...)
In fact even that evening we were able to go to a restaurant that probably wouldn't have been safe for him pre OIT, but we didn't even bother to check! Coby only ended up ordering pizza and tater tots- but that restaurant served other things as well including having an entire dessert section as well as a fleishig section. This makes number three to our growing list of Disney changes post OIT.
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| people who order dairy had to eat on the patio (inside was for meat) |
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| FANTASTIC SHOW! |
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| Wow! |
Sidebar--- at about this point I realized we were short 13 peanuts! I don't know how I miscounted- I thought I actually had thrown in extra peanuts... so we had to get to the store to buy more peanuts. At least they are easily obtainable!
Numero Ses- At the Magic Kingdom Mikey bought himself a Starbucks milkshake and Coby had some... and we didn't even check if it was safe!
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| I forgot to take a pic of Coby trying some, but here's Mikey with the shake as we listened to the pianist at Casey's. |
And now?
All we had to find out was if it was kosher.
It was!
Was it safe?
Not a chance!
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| ATTACK! |
Okay, you may have noticed that Coby is looking a bit different in the above pic than he was earlier in the post...
He had been begging for a haircut for a while now.
I told him if he really wanted one, maybe Disney magic could make it happen.
I still cannot believe I went through with it!
Upsherin take two...
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| BEFORE |
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| The barber kept asking, 'mom, you okay over there?' |
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| AFTER |
And after 9 amazing magical days it was time to go home... actually it was time to leave home to go back to Jersey. Back on Southwest we went.
AND, guess what--- while again they didn't give out peanuts since we indicated Coby's peanut allergy, Yitz found an open bag of peanuts in the pocket of his seat from the prior flight!!!! Yep, before OIT flying Southwest would have been impossible!
On our specific flight they didn't give out peanuts and instead gave out cookies and pretzels. And even though those two items are obviously not peanuts, he wouldn't have been able to eat either one pre-OIT. The cookies seemed okay, but bakery items are always extra risky so we would have had to pass. And the pretzel label said...
Yep- that says 'packed in a facility that handles peanuts....'
He asked for another bag.
The flight attendant brought him two more bags.
Coby ate the entirety of both those bags... and asked for another.
The flight attendant brought him another TWO bags.
Coby ate the entirety of both those bags.
For those of you who are keeping track--- that makes 5 bags of pretzels 'made in a facility with'.
Coby asked for another bag.
We told him, "ENOUGH!"
What can I say?
He really loved those pretzels!
And if you were keeping track with me, that makes number eight ladies and gentlemen!
(And that doesn't even count that I didn't need to use baby wipes to wipe him down every few minutes to remove any possible peanut residue! Instead this year we used purell simply for germs sake!--- okay I'm counting that--- number nine!)
And I can probably keep on counting--- in past trips he had airborne reactions while waiting on line, and touch reactions from hugging a character and leaning on a banister. While the hives from day one did throw us for a loop quite a bit, he did not have any touch or airborne reactions for the first time in possibly forever. Numbers ten and eleven!
(I was also super excited that he didn't get sick this trip as he did during a number of past trips. I will chalk that up to our allergist's insistence he take a daily probiotic to help boost his immune system. :))
Oh my gosh what an amazing and unbelievable trip it was. If Josh were with us, it would have been as close to perfection as we could ever hope for.
I already miss it so much!
The absolute worst part of Disney... is leaving.
Literally. Tears.
Tomorrow we are going back to the allergist for his 6 month post graduation check up. Another skin test, another blood test. (here's hoping the blood test is not as traumatic as the last one, and doesn't bring about a reaction like the last one did.) We will also discuss his latest reactions and what to do with peanut butter going forward...
I miss my Disney bubble!!!
Sidebar---- one part of Coby's haircut that isn't too visible from the above pictures is all the 'pixie dust' they pour on top (if requested, which he did.)
And as I was writing this blog post, 2 full days after this hair-cut Yitz was spending close to an hour soaking Coby's head and trying to get all those sparkles out. It's nearly impossible!
What can I say... pixie dust is resilient!
And one last new Disney item for this post (there are actually many many new Disney things that appear each year, but to stick with my Coby-bear theme, I'm posting this specific one). Disney has a brand new fireworks spectacular unlike ANYTHING you've ever seen, GUARANTEED!!! It is called "Happily Ever After". And while the nostalgic part of me will always miss the "WISHES" fireworks, the lyrics of the HAPPILY EVER AFTER song works very nicely for what Coby has accomplished since his last Disney trip:
Feel it draw you in
Watch the moment unfold
Spark a dream that we're meant to follow
Setting out for a new tomorrow
Every step we take brings a new hope
A new day
Every choice we make helps us find our own way
Every wish finally put into motion
Diving in with our hearts wide open
The story comes alive when we look inside
A new adventure there in your eyes
It's just beginning
Feel your heart beat
Faster
Reach out and find your
Happily ever after
Find your happily ever after
Now we're on our way
Leave our fears behind us
Not so far away from the dreams
That live inside us
Moving down this road we've chosen
There's no limit to where we're going
The battle
The stories
The losses
And all the glories
We're changed by the way we live every day
Just look up and reach to the sky
We all have the courage to fly
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