Monday 4th August 2025, 8:45am

After a day of relaxing, the Kent Family had planned to go to the Magic Kingdom so they had a buffet breakfast for free, then got ready and got a bus, then a monorail to the theme park. Also, they had used their 2 free snacks each to fill up Sam's rucksack with food to keep them going through the active day.

"I'm glad we've rented a stroller." Sam admitted. "She looks tired and we're not even there yet." Sam stated as she and Tom who were standing on the busy monorail, looked down at their two children who had thankfully gotten a seat for the journey. They had rented a double stroller despite the fact that they pretty much never used their one at home anymore, however Sam knew Ella and maybe even Daniel would need to rest their legs for a little while, and aside from that it was somewhere for them to keep their bags.

"Yeah, I might be needing it by the end of the day." Tom quipped. "And not that I need to say this to you two, but you have to stay with me and mummy at all times okay? Don't go running ahead if you see something you want to go to because we've got the whole day today and two full weeks that we can keep coming back to this place if there's something that we miss." Tom said to his children.

"Okay." Daniel nodded.

"Yes daddy." Ella replied. "Can I spend my Disney dollars here?" Ella asked.

"Yeah of course you can. I'm looking after them for you though." Sam stated.

"Ooh, look out the window you two. You can just see the castle over the top of that building." Tom stated as he pointed out of the window and Sam smirked as she knew that she was really taking three kids on the holiday, not just two. Ella practically jumped onto Daniel's lap but thankfully he tolerated her as they both looked out of the window before just moments later, they entered a building and the view was lost.

"Ohh." Daniel moaned.

"It's alright mate, we'll see it right in front of us soon because we're here." Tom stated as the vehicle came to a stop and everyone in the carriage because to squeeze towards the doors.

"Come on mum."

"No Daniel, let's wait until everyone else gets off. You're not going to lose any time in the park; it's open until midnight." Sam stated as she and Tom stopped their children from getting out of their seats because Sam was worried about losing them in the crowd as the doors opened and people poured out. "Right, we've got to pick up the stroller before we go anywhere okay?"

"But mum, I don't need it." Ella protested as she bounced up and down out of excitement.

"Trust me Ella, when you've been walking around for an hour you'll want to sit down and rest your legs for a while." Tom stated.

Finally, after collecting a double stroller and a map, they could begun their adventure and Sam made them go to a bench so that they could decide where they wanted to go first.

"How about we go to adventure land and work our way around the park clockwise?" Tom suggested.

"What's clockwise?" Ella questioned.

"It means, in the same direction that a clock ticks. So say for example this map was turned into a clock and the twelve was at the top, which way would be clockwise?" Tom asked.

"Um... That way?" Ella asked as she pointed to the left.

"Yeah, so in a circle, going that way could be called clockwise. And if that's clockwise, which way do you think is anti-clockwise?"

"Backwards?"

"Yeah, well done." Tom praised.

"Can we go on the jungle cruise around the lake?" Daniel asked.

"Yeah sure." Sam nodded after checking that Ella could go on it. "Ooh, can you two just go and stand against that board so we know how tall you are?" Sam said as she pointed to a height chart with a picture of Mickey Mouse besides it. "Right, you're, 135cm." Sam said to her son. "And you are, 108cm." Sam said to her daughter.

"At those heights, both of them can go on all of the rides, except Ella is too short for Space Mountain, and neither of them can drive their own car on Tomorrow Speedway, we'll have to go in the cars with them." Tom stated after looking at the map.

"Right come on then, let's go." Sam smiled.

9:30am

"Did you enjoy that?" Sam asked as they all came off of the jungle cruise where Ella had sat on Tom's lap and giggled the whole way at the leader's poor jokes.

"Yeah!" Daniel exclaimed. "I could see the fish next to the boat and they had massive mouths." He stated.

"She was funny." Ella smiled as she walked along holding Tom's hand.

"Yeah, she was wasn't she? Do you still need the toilet?" Sam questioned.

"Mmhmm." Ella nodded and Sam looked up to see that the female toilets had a queue of almost two dozen people.

"Oh..."

"Mummy I can't hold it that long." Ella pleaded as she crossed her legs.

"Do you want to come into the men's ones with me?" Tom suggested as there was only a queue of three people by the other toilets. "Come on, I'll hold the door closed for you with my foot so you know I'm there." Tom said reassuringly as he gave Ella's hand a small squeeze and Sam and Daniel sat down on a bench whilst they waited for the pair to come back out.

"Can it still go on Space Mountain even if Ella can't?" Daniel asked.

"Yeah, either me or your dad will go on with you." Sam stated. "Though given your father's fears, I'd say it's probably going to be me coming with you." Sam added.

"What? Is dad scared of rides?" Daniel asked with an evil grin.

"Well maybe not smaller ones but I have a feeling he's not too fond of rides that go too fast or too high for him." Sam smirked.

"Mummy, daddy opened the door when I was having a wee." Ella moaned as she ran out of the toilets and wrapped her arms around her mother's legs.

"I accidentally let the door slip because she was too scared to lock it and I was holding it closed with my foot." Tom explained as he ran out after his daughter had sped off.

"Right Ella, what do I always say when you have an accident?" Sam asked softly as she crouched down so that she wasn't intimidating.

"That it wasn't my fault." Ella mumbled.

"Exactly, accidents aren't anyone's fault so you shouldn't blame daddy." Sam scalded gently.

"Ella, I'm sorry. I promise I didn't mean to do it, and I won't let it happen again." Tom pleaded with his daughter and thankfully, she put her arms up towards him so he lifted her up and gave her a cuddle.

"Good girl." Sam whispered as she patted Ella on the back. "Right, where do you want to go next?" Sam asked her son who had been looking at the map.

"The Swiss Family treehouse. It's from 'Meet the Robinsons'." Daniel stated.

"Alright then, I think it's that big tree over there." Sam stated and Tom lifted Ella up and put her on his shoulders before they walked over there.

"Right do you want to stay with Ella, or go on the ride with Daniel?" Sam asked her husband as they stood outside Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster which Ella was tall enough to go on, but she had opted out after she had seen how fast it went. Not that Sam would be happy with her going on it anyway because it could give Ella lots of bruises and cause unnecessary bleeding on her joints.

"Er... You can go on the ride, I'll stay here and sort out with Ella where we're going for lunch." Tom stated.

"Wimp." Sam said quietly to her husband before she jogged off with her son who was begging to get on the ride.

"Is Dad really scared of coming on this?" Daniel asked curiously as they stood in the queue.

"Um, I think so yeah." Sam nodded.

"Why?"

"I don't know. He doesn't like going in helicopters either so maybe-"

"Dad's been in a helicopter?! When?" Daniel demanded.

"A year or two before you were born. He used to be a doctor who went on air ambulances to treat patients who were in remote areas of who needed help fast. But he gave that up and became a doctor where we work now." Sam explained.

"I want to go on a helicopter when I'm older." Daniel stated.

"Do you?"

"Yeah."

"Well if you carry on with cubs and then scouts, then maybe when you're 13 you could switch to Air Cadets." Sam suggested.

"Can I?"

"Yeah, if it's what you want to do." Sam nodded as she was happy that her son had already taken a strong interest in something that kept him fit and healthy. He went to cubs once a week and would be joining the Scouts next year when he turned 10 1/2.

"You're not gonna scream are you?" Daniel moaned.

"When have I ever screamed?" Sam protested.

" Dad tickled you, and when he kicked a football-"

"That nearly hit me in the face." Sam interrupted and Daniel smiled.

Meanwhile, Tom sat down with Ella on a small patch of grass near the ride's exit where they would be able to see Sam and Daniel on part of the ride and take pictures. They had decided on a place to eat lunch not far from where they were and Ella was sitting looking around the map when she suddenly looked up and saw a heavily pregnant lady wearing a tight top. Tom followed Ella's eye line and saw her staring.

"Daddy, how are babies made?" She baked and Tom felt slightly nervous at having to explain it without the presence of his wife as he knew how inquisitive Ella could be. But he didn't want his daughter to think that it was a taboo subject so he did so calmly. "Because I know they grow in mummy's tummy but how do they get in there? Does she just decide she wants a baby and it happens?" Ella asked.

"Not quite like that no... What happens, is a mummy and a daddy have to do a special kind of cuddling called sex. And Daddy's have little wriggly things in them called sperm, but let's call them seeds for now, which are put into the mummy when they have sex. A single seed goes into a mummy's egg, and then that egg slowly grows into a baby just like those seeds you planted at home." He explained as he tried to help her to relate to the explanation.

"So if I got an egg from the shop and then a pack of seeds then I could make a baby?" Ella asked innocently.

"Not quite like that sweetheart no, only the seeds of a male human and the eggs of a female human can be used, but they're very very tiny. And you're not ready to have a baby yet anyway. You're not going to be ready for a long time because only grown ups like me and your mummy can make a baby; your body just isn't ready yet."

"But how does the baby get out?" Ella asked as she looked back at the pregnant woman.

"Well you know we've spoken before about how girls like you have vaginas, but boys don't? That's where a baby can come out if you decide to have one."

"But babies are massive!"

"Well yes, but your skin can stretch so baby's can come out of there when they need to. It's called giving birth, and it does hurt, quite a lot according to your mother anyway, because you were 8lbs and 2ozs which is quite big for a baby and your mummy has quite a small pelvis so it did hurt her, but it was all worth it because we've got you." Tom smiled.

"What's a pelvis?"

"It's the bony area around here." Tom said as he gestured his lower abdomen. "See if you push down there and feel something hard, that's bone and that's your pelvis." Tom stated and he smiled as he watched Ella investigate by touching all over her belly and her sides and thankfully, she seemed to have forgotten the topic of having a baby.

In the early evening after they'd come back from the park, Ella and Daniel were sitting on the balcony chairs in their pyjamas, seeing which animals they could spot on the savanna as the sun set, whilst Tom watched them from the doorway and Sam finished the last of the unpacking.

"All done." Sam announced as she came and leant against the doorway besides her husband.

"Can I have a word?" Tom asked quietly and Sam nodded as she stepped inside but the doors were glass so she could keep an eye on them.

"What's up?" Sam asked worriedly.

"Um, Ella asked earlier, about how babies were made and then how they were born because she saw a pregnant woman." Tom informed his wife.

"And what did you say?" Sam asked.

"Well I don't know if I went too childish or not childish enough." Tom admitted. "I told her that mummies and daddies do a special cuddling thing called sex, and that I have seeds, and you have eggs and when they meet a baby is made. And then I briefly touched on giving birth."

"And what did she think of what you said?" Sam asked.

"She accepted it and then jut moved on. Do you think I should've gone into more detail?" Tom asked worriedly.

"No, I think if you'd have said more you would've had to have explained about periods and where sperm comes from and all that so I think you said the right things. I know you did much better than I would've done."

"That's not true, you would've been fine." Tom said reassuringly.

"Listen I know we're still a few years off but when do you think I should teach Ella about periods and what she'll go through in puberty?" Sam asked in a hushed voice. "Because I know it runs in my family to start early and have heavy periods; it was the same with my mum, mu aunt and my grandmother. I mean I was 9 when I started my period and with her disease, she's going to have extremely heavy periods. I just, I don't want her to be scared but I don't want her to be unprepared." Sam admitted.

"Well then when you do do it, get a few books and some pads or whatever to help you explain it to her. Just do it whenever you think she's ready, because you won't be able to tell until a few years time when she will start to develop and once you think she's started puberty, you can explain it to her." Tom stated.

"Okay, thanks." Sam nodded in appreciation. "Y'know I think I may have overlooked how we're going to be able to go two weeks without sex." Sam whispered. She and Tom knew that they were staying in one room at Disney and so they had no hope, but their villas for the last two weeks of their holiday had more than one bedroom so they hoped that they'd be able to sneak some love making in during the night.

"We could always share a shower once these two have fallen asleep." Tom suggested.

"It's too risky." Sam shook her head.

"We could say in the morning that you're going to take a bath while I take a shower and then we could lock the door so we-"

"And that would mean leaving both of them in the hotel room by themselves with a balcony." Sam replied sternly.

"Scrap that idea then." Tom shrugged.

"Mm-"

"Dad look! There's loads of zebras running around." Daniel stated excitedly and both parents went out to see the animals gallivanting around and making funny noises before they settled down in a patch of grass and began grazing.

"Wow. I bet you're glad mum paid extra for a room with this view and a balcony eh? Can you imagine if we had a view of the car park?" Tom joked. "Hang on, I'll be right back." Tom went inside and then returned with a pouffe and put that on the balcony. "Right Daniel you can sit on that, I'll nick your chair," Tom began as he sat down on one of two outdoor chairs.

"And we'll share this one." Sam smiled as she lifted Ella up and then sat down with her daughter on her lap. As the evening went on and it began to get darker, and Ella soon fell asleep with her knees up to her chest, leaning against Sam's torso whilst Daniel continued to spot various animals.

"Do you want me to go and put her to bed?" Tom suggested quietly as he tucked a bit of his daughter's hair behind her ear.

"No, she's fine here." Sam smiled.

"Mum, do you think Shadow, Panda and Alex are okay?" Daniel asked.

"Yeah of course they are. They're staying at Fletch's so that they don't have to go to the kennels and that way they'll have Ella (A/N Oops! I've only just realised that Fletch has a kid called Ella too!), Evie, Noah and Mikey to make a fuss of them every day. Plus they can play with Max."

"Isn't Max their brother?" He asked.

"Well he's Alex and Panda's brother yeah but he's Shadow's son." Sam replied.

"Why did you get rid of Max?"

"Because Shadow got pregnant and she gave birth just before I was about to give birth to you and we weren't sure if we had enough room there because we used to live in a one bedroom apartment. Plus Uncle Fletch's kids aren't as lucky as you are because you've got two doctors are parents so we never have to worry about money whereas they can only spend the money when they earn it. They'd never be able to afford a dog so we gave Max to them as an early christmas present for free." Sam explained.

"Can we get a cat?" Daniel asked.

"I don't think a cat living in a house with three border collies would be a good idea." Tom stated.

"What about a fish tank?"

"We'll see."

"A rabbit?"

"No."

"A horse?"

"Now that's too far." Sam stated bluntly and Daniel giggled.

Coming up: After their fortnight holiday in Disney, they stay in a suite, then a hotel, and then after a month in Florida, they return home :)

Thanks for reading, and sorry for the abrupt ending but I couldn't think of another way to end it to be honest! Please leave a review if you can :)