Family, travel, mom blog | Theme Park Mom (Leigh Caldwell)

Is there someone in your family who has some “famous” sayings that the rest of the family quotes? In my family, we have “Nana-isms.”

My personal favorite is “I don’t buy green bananas.” It’s her way of saying we don’t know what tomorrow holds, and we don’t know if we’ll be around long enough for the bananas to ripen.

When my daughter was peeing in her pantspotty-training, I heard another “Nana-ism” that she uses on all parents of preschool-age kids: “No kid ever went to kindergarten wearing diapers.”

And she was right. My daughter did eventually learn to use the potty. But during that time, Huggies Pull-Ups became a staple in our house. My daughter could pull them up and down herself when she went to the bathroom, and they kept her clothing dry without leaking when she didn’t make it in time.

This summer, Pull-Ups Learning Designs training pants are featuring some familiar characters to Disney fans – Woody and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story 3 for boys and Tiana from Princess and the Frog for girls. There are some great tools online – like coloring pages, calendars and reward stickers – at Disney.com/BigKid to make starting the potty-training adventure more fun.

And packages of Pull-Ups even have a code that you can enter online to get a phone call from Woody or Tiana.

Giveaway!

Pull-Ups has provided me with a great prize pack for one lucky ThemeParkMom.com reader! Here’s what I have to giveaway:

• $50 AMEX gift card (so you can stock up on new Pull-Ups – while supplies last – and everything else you need to get started)
• Custom CD Rewards Tracker (to help track training progress)
• Big Kid Central Potty Training Success DVD (with techniques, tips, songs and games to help you and your child succeed)
• Toy Story 2 DVD and Princess and the Frog DVD
• Two coupons for FREE Pull-Ups

How to Enter

Leave a comment on this post telling me which of the characters (Toy Story or Princess and the Frog) your kids (or you!) love the best. (This is required to enter the contest.)

Extra Entries

After your initial entries, you can earn extra entries by doing any or all of the following. You must leave a separate comment for each extra entry you do. (These can say things like “I followed Pull-Ups on Twitter” or “I tweeted about this giveaway.”)

• Follow Pull-Ups on Twitter.
• Like Pull-Ups on Facebook.
• Follow ThemeParkMom on Twitter.
• Tweet about this giveaway: “Enter to win a Toy Story 3 Pull-Ups prize pack at @themeparkmom’s blog: http://bit.ly/dgBSoC “

Winners

This giveaway will end at 9 p.m. Eastern on Monday, July 5. I will draw the winning comment using the random number generator at Random.org and post the winner as an update to this blog post. I will notify the winner by e-mail.

Pull-Ups® training pants provided me with product coupons to try out the new Learning Designs Pull-Ups® with Toy Story 3/Princess and the Frog characters. However, my opinions are entirely my own, and I have not been paid to publish positive sentiments towards Pull-Ups® products.

Once upon a time,

in a Magical Kingdom…

There was a tea party.

Little princesses from near and far

Gathered their mothers and donned their tiaras.

They made new friends…

To dance and play with.

The cameras rolled

To welcome a new princess.

And a talk-show princess came, too…

To make some special little girls’ dreams come true.

Magical fireworks lit up the skies…

And all was right with the world.

Walt Disney World invited my daughter and me to a mother-daughter tea party and taping for the Tyra Banks Show Friday night at the Magic Kingdom. We had sweet treats and lots of fun at Swan Boat Landing, where we got to visit with Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen from the new Disney movie, “The Princess and the Frog.”

We also took the time to reflect on Disney’s first African-American princess, and how important it is to have strong, diverse female role models for our daughters.

And, after lots of practice, we got to hoot and holler when Tyra Banks herself arrived. She was dressed casually in jeans and a polo, but her shoes were, as she would say, fierce!

Tyra watched the fireworks with three very deserving little girls who had been treated to an ultimate princess experience at Walt Disney World. You can see their stories on the Tyra Banks Show this Wednesday, Nov. 25.

When you watch, keep an eye out for me, Stefanie, Lorraine and our daughters!

The Princess and the Frog opens in movie theaters on Dec. 11.

Disney Parks unveiled their newest princess, Tiana, last night at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Tampa. This is Tiana as she will appear at Walt Disney World, Disneyland and the other Disney parks. The new film starring Tiana, “The Princess and the Frog,” opens Dec. 11. Anika Noni Rose, the actress who voices Tiana in the new Disney movie, also appeared at the conference and posed with Tiana.

The newest theme park character scheduled to soon debut at Disneyland Resort in California and Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, Princess Tiana, makes her very first public appearance Aug. 6, 2009 at the 2009 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Convention in Tampa, Fla. Princess Tiana is featured in the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film, "The Princess and the Frog." In the film, Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose provides the voice for Disney's newest princess.

Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose (second from left), who provides the voice of Disney's newest princess, Tiana, in the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film "The Princess and the Frog," takes time Aug. 6, 2009 to greet six young Princess Tiana fans (right) and the Princess Tiana character as she will appear in the Disney theme parks (far left) at the 2009 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Convention in Tampa, Fla. At the convention, Rose performed a song from the film and served as the special guest star during the first public appearance of Disney Parks' new Princess Tiana character.

If you are planning a trip to Walt Disney World or Disneyland over the holidays, you can see Tiana in a new show, complete with jazz music from the city where “The Princess and the Frog” is set, New Orleans. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a new show called Tiana’s Showboat Jubilee will debut Oct. 26 at Walt Disney World and Nov. 6 at Disneyland.