I am very grateful for the memories my daughter has. Carrying it around everywhere was not easy or fun. Mostly because of how heavy and bulky it was. I have three other children and honestly, I can say I will never make a book like that again. It really is a wonderful treasure trove of memories of our vacation. The first two pages are filled with various photos taken of her around the parks. The cover was filled with a picture of my daughter in front of Cinderella Castle. We found every character in that book, save three, and some we didn’t expect, like Tinker Bell's fairy friends and Wendy as well as Peter Pan! I cut off the spiral binding (it was starting to fall apart from use) and placed each page in a protective sleeve. When we came home, we filled the pages with photos of my smiling daughter visiting each of her new friends. Other guests were delighted and amazed at what we had made. It was wonderful! We have personalized stories about how the characters interacted with my daughter. Mickey flipped through each page while at breakfast with us, taking a long look at his own page. Donald's helper counted how many Mickey stickers there were and how many Donald stickers there were, and to Donald's delight, there were more Donald stickers. Aladdin and Jasmine flipped through each page, showing their assistants and chatting with my daughter about her necklaces and the princess costume she was wearing.Įven the non-talking characters were amazed at her book! Bolt had his assistant take a picture of the book.
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Ariel took a full five minutes while my daughter sat next to her, flipping through the pages of the book (and when we saw her later at a character breakfast, she kissed the page dedicated to her!). They stopped, looked, and (the ones who could talk) took the time to chat with my daughter and ask her questions about her book. There was no quick hug, sign, picture, and off we go. What was really cool was how almost every single character stopped and noticed my daughter's autograph book. Then we had to yank it back out each time we had to fold the stroller to climb onto a bus (either to go to our resort or another park). I sometimes carried it in my backpack so that it wouldn't get ruined, but often it was placed in the bottom of the stroller. 40 characters in eight days was quite a bit of waiting! The book was bulky and HEAVY and of course I was delegated to carry it throughout the parks. My husband, parents, and brother all assumed it was something I solely wanted to do with my daughter, leaving the job of waiting in line all mine.
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Somehow the book took on a life of its own! It became our mission, scouring each park to make sure we got every autograph of every character we had glued onto a page. If we missed characters, it would be no big deal - we could bring the book back on some other trip. I intended that, as we wandered around the parks and came across a character we had not yet seen, we could wait in line to meet them. We hadn't left for Walt Disney World, and I was already tired of that book!Įxcitedly, we went to Walt Disney World, bringing the book. It took us a couple of hours, every afternoon for about 2 1/2 weeks before we were done. Through the book we went, following the same routine, for each character. We left the page next to the picture page blank so that we could later fill it with autographs and pictures of my daughter with the character. On the page that we glued Sleeping Beauty’s picture, I gave her the stickers I had collected and let her go to town! She placed as many stickers as she wanted all over the page. I cut funky borders out of card stock with scrapbooking scissors, and she glued them on the edges of each page. I printed-off a picture of Sleeping Beauty, and my daughter glued it on to the right-hand side. My daughter's favorite character is Sleeping Beauty, so Aurora got the privilege of getting to go first. Together, my daughter and I then went to work on her “autograph” book.įirst, we sat down and I pointed to each two-page section asking her which character she wanted to go where.
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I collected and stored everything away until three weeks before our trip. I looked online for pictures of each Disney character I thought we might meet. When I couldn't find any for certain characters at local craft stores, I shopped online at a place called. I bought every type of sticker I could find for Disney characters. I found a spiral-bound scrapbook that has 40 pages of 9"x11" card stock in it. In the months before our vacation I hunted for the items I wanted.