A\N: There are so many people I need to thank for helping me with this chapter. From my friends who gave me some very important ideas, to others who told me what it was like traveling with young children. Thank you all so much!

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Chapter 27

Holding onto Shane's hand Julia looked around the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in awe, she had never seen anything as so beautiful and fancy. All around there were stations with chairs and princess dresses on display. She tugged on Shane's hand wanting to explore when a young woman approached them.

"Well hello Princess Julia, my name is Lyndsey and I'm a Fairy Godmother in Training. I'm going to turn you into Ariel today." The Disney employee smiled as she looked at her iPad and then again at Julia, "I see you're four years old and you have your own hairbrush."

"Yes," Sane reached into a bag and pulled out Julia's hairbrush, "She can be a little inpatient when anyone is brushing or outing her hair up. We've talked about how important today is though. She's really excited so I think she'll be alright.'

"No problem, we can so as slowly as you like. I can even have other Fairy Godmother's in Training help. You are our very first appointment today. We've been setting everything up just for you. Would you like to take my hand and come and see," Lyndsey reached out her hand to Julia.

"Yes please," Julia took Lyndsey's hand and walked into another room. Hanging on a hanger she saw an Ariel dress as well as the matching accessories. She saw as well that the movie was being shown on a TV. "Mommy! Mommy!" Julia looked back at Shane and began jumping up and down with excitement. "Is this mine?"

"It is," Shane confirmed, and she smiled as Julia ran off and looked at the dress. The package she and Oliver had selected had been expensive but they both knew this was a once in a lifetime opportunity and that Julia would absolutely love it. She loved Ariel and looking like her would make her very happy. Shane loved seeing her children happy and she knew Oliver felt the same way.

"Guess what Lyndsey," Julia looked up at the woman, "I have bodyguards. They're coming later."

"My husband and father in-law are bringing Julia's older brother's after her appointment." Shane clarified. "Sitting and waiting two hours for their sister to turn into a princess didn't really appeal to my five-year old's. However, they are going to be wearing shirts that say princess protection detail."

"Well I think every princess needs some security and there's no bodyguards better than older brothers," Lyndsey smiled, "They'll always protect you."

"I love Lucas and Matthew," Julia smiled happily, "Can I please try on my dress now?"

"Why certainly, I have to tell you, you're the politest young princess I've ever seen," She praised.

"Thank you. God says be nice to everyone," Julia looked at her, "Being nice makes me feel good."

"That's right," Lyndsey smiled, "Being nice is very important. Now let's dress you all up." She picked up the dress and the accessories.

An hour and a half later, with a little help of hairstyling a red wig and child friendly make-up and sparkles Julia looked just like a mini version of Ariel. When she was finally finished, she jumped out of the make-up chair and ran around the room.

"Mommy! Mommy! I'm like Ariel," Julia began skipping. "I'm so happy!" She cheered. "Where's Daddy and Grandpa?" She asked, she wanted Oliver and her brothers to see her all dressed up.

"I'm not sure your father is not usually late," Shane looked at the time on her watch. "I'll call Grandpa and see where they are." She spoke out loud. Even though her husband did have a cell phone he rarely used it, so she knew it would make more sense to call Joe.

"Daddy!" Julia suddenly squealed with excitement and ran up to her father an gave him a huge hug, "Daddy I'm a real princess!"

Oliver wasn't overly impressed with the idea of putting make-up on little girls and dressing them up. It had taken a lot of convincing from Shane before he agreed to this experience. He wanted his daughter to know she was beautiful without make-up or a fancy dress.

"Julia, you look very beautiful. However, I think you are beautiful without make-up and a dress. I am very pleased however that you are very happy."

"Thank you," Julia smiled she then went running up to Joe, "Look Grandpa I'm Ariel!" She twirled around in her dress."

Joe smiled, he loved seeing how happy Julia was, "I think you look very beautiful," Joe lifted her up and gave her a kiss, he then placed her back on the ground and watched as she showed off her dress to her brothers."

"I'm Ariel and you're my security guards," Julia explained to Matthew and Lucas, "You have to listen to me."

"No, no," Shane stepped into her children's conversation, "Julia, Princess are kind and generous. They're not bossy. If you want to be a real Princess, I expect you to be kind and nice to your brothers. It was very nice of them to wear these shirts for you."

Julia looked at her mother and then at her brothers, "Ariel is nice to her friends," She spoke out loud, "And Cinderella and Snow White are always nice. Okay Mommy!" She agreed. She then hugged both of her brothers.

After setting up a very special portrait studio session Lyndsey walked back into the room and saw Matthew and Lucas, these must me Princess Julia's security guards." Lyndsey smiled at Lucas and Matthew's t-shirts. "I think you'll like what we have for you in our portrait gallery," Lyndsey returned to the main room, "if you'll follow me its right through here," Lyndsey led the family into another room where a photographer was waiting.

"Oh wow!" Lucas said as he saw the lightsabers. He rushed over to them and licked one up excitedly. "Mathew look at these!" He smiled as he handed on over to his twin, "Let's fight." He held up his lightsaber and stood in a fighting position.

"Hold on," Lyndsey said, "First we need to take some pictures of Princess Julia, then we'll take some pictures of you two junior Luke Skywalker's. After that how would you like to have some pictures of you using your lightsabers to protect your sister?"

"Our lightsabers?" Matthew looked at Lyndsey, "You're giving us lightsabers? Why? He asked.

"Your sister told me how you love Star Wars and how much you love her. I thought since she's getting a dress these lightsabers would be a good treat for you."

"Thank you, Lyndsey" Matthew and Lucas said at the same time.

"Well you're very welcome and thank you for using my name. I'm glad to see you reading my name tag."

"We want to read every cast member's name," Matthew explained, "And try to pronounce where they live. You're from New York."

"Very good," Lyndsey praised, "Now let's get started on these pictures.

Half an hour later all of the pictures had been taken and Shane had tapped her Magic Band to the camera so all the pictures would load on her phone. The family made their way over to the stroller parking area where there two strollers had been parked. They'd brought a double stroller from home and had rented a single stroller from the park. The rented single stroller had a picture of Ariel with their last name in a pocket on the back of the stroller. The double stroller had a Star Wars picture on it. The double stroller had lots of storage options, so it had snacks in a cooler and bags full of extra clothes for the kids as well as their autographs books and some toys.

As Matthew and Lucas climbed into the double stroller, they saw a little boy in a wheelchair. They'd seen children in wheelchairs before, but this little boy had a mask over his face and was bald.

"Daddy, is he sick?" Matthew pointed to the boy.

"Matthew it's not polite to point," Oliver lowered his son's finger as he locked the stroller again and came around to the front, "That boy is really sick. His family are wearing shirts that say Make-A-Wish Foundation. The Make-A-Wish foundation is a charity organization for kid's wo are dying. It enables them to make on last big wish. Going to Disney World is what a lot of children wish for. "In fact," Oliver reached into his wallet and pulled out two fifty-dollar bills, "I'm going to make sure they had a fantastic trip." He said as he walked over to the family.

"Why is Daddy giving money to the sick boy's Mommy and Daddy?" Matthew wondered.

"Your father is very generous that's why," Shane explained to her children. "He wants to make sure the boy and his family get everything they want."

"I want to help too!" Matthew unbuckled himself from the stroller, "Mommy can I have my autograph book? I want to give it to the little boy."

While Shane was touched by her son's idea, she wanted to make sure he understood what giving up his autograph book meant, "That means you're going to have to share with Lucas or Julia. Are you okay with that?"

"Mattie can share mine,' Lucas unbuckled himself from the stroller and joined his brother, "I want the little boy to be happy."

"Alright, you boys are being very nice," Shane handed over one of the children's character encyclopedia books she and Oliver had brought for the kids to get autographs in

Matthew and Lucas walked over to their father and stood beside him, they waited until he had finished talking. "We have two of these books," Matthew began, "They're character encyclopedias. It has pictures of all of the characters in it and we're going to have the characters sign their page. We want your son to have this one." Matthew handed the book over to the woman wheeling the wheelchair. She already had tears in her eyes from when Oliver had given her and her husband the money.

"Thank you," The woman took the book, "Your Daddy is raising you to be very nice young men. I just wish- "She began to sob and her husband ahd to comfort her.

"Thank you for the money and the book. You have no idea how much it all means to us. It was always out plan to take our son here one day but now he doesn't have much time left."

"I'm very sorry," Oliver couldn't imagine having one of his children be that close to dying, "We'll be praying for you and your son," He said as he led Matthew and Lucas back to where Shane and his father were waiting with Julia.

"Excuse me Sir," A Disney cast member tapped Oliver on the shoulder, "May I have a quick discussion with you. I promise it's nothing to serious," The man added as he saw the looks on Lucas and Matthew's faces.

"Of course, you two go back to Mommy and Grandpa," Oliver watched Lucas and Matthew ran back to their mother and grandfather.

Since Oliver and Shane knew Julia probably wouldn't last all day in the Ariel dress, they knew the first character they had to see was Ariel. As they walked to the Little Mermaid Ride Oliver quietly explained his discussion with the Disney cast member to Shane and Joe, "I told him no but…"

"I think it will be a wonderful surprise for the kids," Shane told Oliver, "I know you don't like them being rewarded for good deeds, but these are all once in a lifetime opportunities."

"Yes, that is why I finally said yes. The details are being prepared and finalized. After our dinner reservation we're going to go to guest services at the front of the park. They're we'll get the final details.'

"The Ariel ride!" Julia squealed with happiness as she saw the Little Mermaid ride.

"It's going to be so boring," Lucas complained, "I want to ride fun rides!" The idea of listening to the songs he already hated while on a ride did not appeal to him.

"Well after we ride this ride and meet Ariel, we're going to ride the Seven Draff's Mine Trian. That's a roller coaster," Joe told his grandson, "I know this isn't important for you or your brother but it's important to your younger sister. Sometimes being in a family means you need to do things you may not want to do."

Matthew and Lucas nodded their heads as they walked into the ride line up. The line was long but once the pictures from the portrait studio had loaded on Shane's phone, they looked through them with Julia.

"Mommy are you going to post these? Can we buy them?" Lucas asked as Shane took her phone back from the kids.

"We're going to print the pictures out once we get home. I am going to post them now though," She explained as she set up an album on her Facebook account.

Once the family had gone on the Little Mermaid ride Julia started jumping with excitement. She knew she'd get to meet Ariel next. "Hi! I have Fast past!" She explained to the cast member standing at the entrance to the Ariel meet-and-greet.

"Well of course you do, you must be a mermaid too." She watched as the family all tapped their Magic Bands and walked into the fast-past line. They were able to walk almost all the way to where Ariel was, and Julia tried to stand on het tippy toes to see her.

"Here you go Julia," Shane handed her daughter her autograph book and a page, "Here is Ariel's page. You can get her to sign it."

"Okay Mommy." Julia nodded her head.

When it was her turn to meet Ariel Julia looked up at her hero and found she couldn't say anything luckily Ariel knew just what to say.

"Why, you must be a young mermaid, you know I haven't been back to the ocean in such a long time. I've been very busy here on earth with Eric. You'll have to tell me all about your ocean home."

Julia began spinning around happily in her dress she then ran up to Ariel and gave her a huge hug, "I love you. You're my favourite. I love Flounder too! I have Nemo doll. I love Nemo."

"Well it seems like you have lots of fish friends. That's good for a little mermaid like yourself. Did you want me to sign my picture?" She asked referring to Julia's autograph book.

"Yes!" Julia nodded her head, she watched as Ariel signed the book and then gave it back to her, "And are these your brothers. Young mermen would you like to come and say hello?" Aril asked.

"They're my bodyguards," Julia jumped up and rant to her brothers it didn't take much effort on her park to convince them to rake some pictures with Ariel. After Ariel signed their autograph book and then gave Julia one last hug.

As the day went on the family saw lot's more characters and got on as many rides as they could. After dinner all three children were half asleep as they rode in the strollers, but they still had one last surprise left. Once Oliver checked in at Guest Services like he was told to do the family was led into a door marked 'Cast members only' and into a backstage area. At this point even though all three children were very tired they were all very intrigued about where they were and what was going to happen.

"Hi O'Toole Family," A young woman approached them, "My names Sarah. Now Mickey Mouse heard about nice you all where to that Make-A-Wish boy and we wanted to reward you all. So, we have some gifts that some of Mickey's friends and maybe even Mickey himself are going to give you."

"Wait!" Julia interrupted, "I didn't help the boy," She pouted and then began to cry. "Mommy said I should stay with her."

Shane had been prepared for this all day. She walked around to the front of the stroller and unbuckled Julia and lifted her up, "You wanted to go and help the boy, but I didn't want him to get to overwhelmed. You let your brothers use your autograph book today too, and that was very nice of you. So, I think you do deserve a little surprise," She placed Julia on the ground

"Of course, you do," Sarah smiled down at Julia, "Now Mickey Mouse is very organized, and he has arranged this all. First of all, I think there are some people that Lucas might like to meet." She said just as R2D2 and Luke Skywalker walked out.

"Luke Skywalker!" Lucas shouted happily, he undid the stroller seatbelt and leaped out of the stroller and towards Luke Skywalker, "I have a lightsaber too! And I'm dressing up like you for Halloween! You're so cool!"

"Well," Luke Skywalker got down to Lucas's level, "I think that any little boy that helps a child whose sick is very cool. Mickey Mouse told me you wanted to build a robot like R2D2. So, I thought maybe I could help you out. I have all of the things we need to make the coolest robot ever!"

"Can I?" Lucas turned to Shane and Oliver and asked, "Please? Please?"

"Of course, you can!" Shane smiled, "Grandpa can go with you alright. Mommy and Daddy want to see what your brother and sister get."

"Okay! Come on Grandpa! Lucas took Joe's hand and tugged him in the direction Luke Skywalker was going.

"Now, I heard someone hear loves Ariel," Sarah turned to look at Julia once Lucas had left to make his robot.

"I was Ariel, but it was itchy," Julia explained, "I met Ariel and got pictures!" She said happily.

"Ariel told Mickey Mouse you wanted a Flounder stuffed friend but since she had to go back to the ocean, she asked Prince Eric if he'd give it to you."

As Prince Eric walked out from behind the curtain Julia squealed, "Look Mommy! He's cute!" She ran up to Price Eric, "I was Ariel! I had a dress! Can I have a kiss?"

Hearing his four-year-old daughter use the words 'cute' and 'kiss' was quite alarming for Julia and he watched with a little concern as Price Eric gave his daughter a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Here's a stuffed Flounder that can play with your stuffed Nemo," Prince Eric handed Julia over the toy, "Would you like me to sign your autograph book and we can take some pictures?"

'Yes!" Julia nodded her head excitedly.

Once Prince Eric had left and Julia was back in her stroller hugging her new doll Mickey and Minnie Mouse walked through the curtain. Mickey Mouse was carrying a protective container and a gift bag, he walked over to Matthew.

"Mickey learnt you want to start your own stamp collection so he figured he'd help you out," Sarah explained, "He got you a very rare Mickey Mouse stamp," She said as Mickey Mouse opened the protective container to reveal a stamp that was in very good condition.

It didn't take Oliver long to realize the stamp in question was one of only twenty that were ever distributed on the very first day Disney opened. "Matthew, that is a very special gift, I think perhaps I should hold onto it. Uncle Norman will want to see this when we get home."

"It's so official," Matthew smiled as he let his father take the stamp. He then opened the gift bag to find even more stamps, as well as a stamp collection book, "Thank you," He smiled happily, "I'm going to put all the stamps in by date." He decided.

"Look, look!" Lucas ran excitedly towards his family as he controlled a very fancy looking robot, "Luke Skywalker helped me make a robot just like in the movies! He had to go back to space, but I got pictures with him on Grandpa's phone. This is my new robot. I can make it move," He moved the controllers up and down to make the robot move its arms."

"Okay you've shown Mommy, Daddy and your brother and sister. Now let's put your robot back in its box. You can play with it more when we get home."

"Okay, "Lucas nodded his head as he placed the robot and the remote back in its box.

"Now, we have one last surprise," Sarah handed Oliver over an envelope, he opened it to see that he and Shane had been given a free one-night suite at Disney's fanciest hotel. When the Disney employee had asked him what he wanted he had simply said he wanted his children to be happy. As he handed the envelope over to Shane, he realized having some alone time with his wife was exactually what he wanted. Especially since they'd been talking about having another baby.

"Oh wow, this is very generous, thank you Sarah, and please thank Mickey Mouse and everyone else. You've all provided our children with memories they'll never forget."

"Mommy what did you and Daddy get?" Matthew asked.

"Mommy and Daddy got a free night at a fancy hotel."

"So that means that Grandpa gets to look after you three tonight," Joe smiled at his grandchildren. Mommy and Daddy can come back with us to our hotel. Then they'll go to the other hotel. Tomorrow we'll meet up somewhere in Magic Kingdom. You three will be asleep as soon as I tuck you in anyways," Joe explained to his grandchildren.

TBC


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