The Movie

Tonight at dinner, John told us "We got to watch a movie today." Daddy asked "Really, what movie?" John said "Toy Story!" Daddy questioned him, "You got to watch Toy Story in class?" John laughed and said "No for recess!" Gillian said "We watched a movie too! In the cafeteria!" Daddy asked "What movie did you watch?" Gillian looked very confused and said "I don't know the name. Can I tell you about it? There was these two things. And they was looking for leaves. There was no more leaves. And the grandpa knew where to go. And there was dinosaurs." We were all confused. At least she said dinosaurs. We asked "Did they talk?" She said "Yes!" We asked "Was there a big elephant?" She said "No!" I guessed "Land Before Time." She had no idea what I was talking about so I asked "Was there a baby dinosaur with a long neck?" She said "No. It wasn't a baby. It was a kid and he had a long neck! And we watched it in the cafeteria!"

The movies

We decided to take the kids to see the new Muppet movie today. All we told the kids was that we were going to do something special. This morning John kept asking for clues. I told him "Green." That didn't help him. I also brought Gillian's Kermit with us thinking that would help him. He didn't figure it out until we got to the mall. 

While we were buying tickets, Gillian asked "Can we get popcorn? And a soda?" I caved and bought the popcorn. The kids were very good while we waited for the movie to start. Gillian announced to the entire theater "I gotta go potty!" I picked her up and ran to the bathroom. The whole time she was yelling "I gotta go. I gotta go!"

I got to sit next to John while Gillian sat next to Daddy. John got a little scared with a few parts of the movie. Gillian got very scared when she saw the "bad Kermit." And she jumped into Daddy's lap. Later she told me "There was two Kermits. One was bad! The bad one take Miss Piggy! And Johnny know which one was good!" John said "It was easy!" 

At lunch I asked the kids "What was your favorite part of the movie?" John said "The muppet ladder!" Gillian said "I don't want to talk about it now." Silly girl never told us what she liked best. 

The girl in the purple dress

Last week, Gillian and I watched Tangled for the first time.  We loved it.  She unfortunately has a hard time remembering Rapunzel's name.  So she constantly asks me "Who's the girl in the purple dress?" 

Tonight, I was tucking her into bed, and she asked me to snuggle with her for a few minutes.  As we were snuggling she asked "Who's the girl in the purple dress?"  I said "Rapunzel."  She said "She was a baby and a witch took her.  She make her hair magic.  And the girl growed up and her hair got long and long and long!  When she sings the hair glows! And then a boy comes.  Him cut her hair with a part of a mirror!  And then the witch's hair goes all white.  And her a witch again.  Her is not the mom!  Then the girl gets to stay with the boy!"  I love her little synopsis of the movie. 

Movie critic

After dinner we decided we would have family movie night. John immediately said "Let's pop some popcorn." I guess I didn't jump up quick enough because he said "Mom! Let's get popping!" Daddy gave us a couple of options and we decided on a double feature of Monsters vs Aliens and The Muppets. John's pick was Monsters vs Aliens and Gillian has never seen that movie. So John told her, "It's ok. It's not scary, it's about nice monsters. And aliens. Like the aliens that are our neighbors!" John insists that the neighbors behind us are aliens because they have one room that is painted bright green. When the light is on in that room it glows. He thinks the glow is from the aliens. We only watched half of Monsters vs Aliens. John kept getting scared (yes, you read that right) so we stopped it and put on The Muppets.

Stooges

One of Daddy's favorite shows is the Three Stooges. He recently watched the movie and knew that John would love it too. We started watching the movie and John at first did not like it. But that didn't last long. The first really big scene where the stooges were trying to fix something and they hit each other with hammers and fell down a ladder, John laughed and laughed. He laughed so hard that I was afraid he was going to pee his pants. He loved the movie. He was glued to the TV and didn't miss any of the action. Then the stooges had a big fight. Moe got mad and the three of them split ways. Daddy and I watched John and he looked really mad. I asked him if he was ok. He turned to us with tears in his eyes and said "I can't believe they're doing this right now!" He burst into tears and jumped into my arms to snuggle. We explained to him that everything would be ok, but he was still upset. It didn't take long to get him laughing again. He really enjoyed the movie and before Daddy tucked him in bed John said "Don't worry! All the hammers and tools they used wasn't real. They were rubber and sound effects!"

Family Day

Today we spent the entire day together. The kids woke up and found Buddy (he was hanging out in our bathroom holding a toothbrush). We then went to the movies. We saw Rise of the Guardians. John loved it. He sat and watched the whole thing. Gillian started out by sitting but go up and stood for most of the movie. Thankfully there was no one sitting in front of us because she spent most of the movie rocking the chair in front of her. Daddy had to take her out of the movie for a little bit because she was crying. He took her out to the hallway and said what do you want? She said "chocolate." He caved and went to the concession stand and said how about M&M's? She said "I want chocolate." Daddy told her that M&M's are chocolate. They came back with two bags of M&M's, one for John and one for Gillian.

We got home and Gillian napped. John played with his dinosaurs while Daddy and I worked around the house. We had a quick dinner and then watched the Muppet movie. I made some chocolate chip cookies for a snack. John and Gillian came running when they heard the timer go off. Gillian said "I have cookie!" This was before I had even taken them off of the cookie sheet (I guess I make a lot of cookies). We all enjoyed our snack and afterward Gillian ran around the kitchen flapping her arms saying "I a birdie! I flying!"

What a fun family day.