The month of July is about to get a little crazy as I(Matthew) will only be in town for 6 days. With that in mind, I thought it would be a great time to do something fun with Grey. Previews for the new Ice Age movie have been coming on t.v. and everytime Grey stops what he is doing and watches the preview very intently. Then he says, "I see dat. I see Ice Age." So I decided it was time to test the waters of the movie theatre.
Yesterday we left for a 10:00 showing of Ice Age 3. All morning long (and the day before), he was so excited about going to see it. I tried to show up strategically after the previews to maximize my time of actual movie watching. To be quite honest, using a variety of snacks and popcorn, my goal was to squeeze 30-45 minutes out of him. When we walked in he was absolutely blown away! It was dark and big and loud, and the first thing he said was, "Daddy, hold me."
This didn't seem like a good start, but as soon as he sat down, he loved every minute of it. At one point in the movie, Diego was chasing some sort of animal and as he got closer and closer Grey was saying, "almost! (there) almost!" After about 40 minutes, I had to remind him that we had snacks and popcorn. By the time it was all over, everyone had left the theatre and Grey was watching the credits still eating popcorn! As we were walking out of the theatre, he said, "I miss mommy. Daddy, I like dat. Dat was fuuuun!" He did such a great job. I look forward to other movie days with Grey to mix into our daddy and grey date schedule.
***On a side note, I (matthew) will probably be posting more on the blog. I considered creating my own blog (which after a few posts, some of you will probably wish I did), but since this is a blog about/for our family, I didn't see the need to separate myself from the family.***
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