Let's Go out to the Theater
Mommy took Abbie to see a movie a couple days ago. An actual, full-length feature. In a movie theater. With other paying customers around.
This is a watershed moment in her development. I've heard that some children from birth will sit and stare at the television for hours at a time. I envy those parents because Abbie is not one of those children.* Abbie has never shown the inclination to sit still and watch something for 90 minutes. The closest she comes is watching "Mary Poppins," but even then we have to fast forward the DVD player to a song. She has trouble sitting through the double-length episodes of Dora.
The movie they saw is "Wall-E." Mommy knew she had to be cognizant of the other viewers in the theater. Even though this was a weekday matinee meaning there were about nine other people in the theater, and most of those were parents with young children who were also trying to be cognizant of the other viewers, Abbie's complaining could still annoy the other patrons. Mommy entered the theater with low expectations, ready to leave at the first whine.
Abbie did very well. The previews scared her, but she watched the short before the movie and settled down. She enjoyed about the first hour, laughed at the appropriate parts, and told mommy she wanted to leave. This desire to leave may be related to her suddenly running out of Gummi Bears. Mommy led her out of the theater as promised, and returned home to relay to me the great news. Then looked up the ending on the Internet because that's the only way she'll find out what happens before the DVD comes out.
* Neither are the boys, but that's a
This is a watershed moment in her development. I've heard that some children from birth will sit and stare at the television for hours at a time. I envy those parents because Abbie is not one of those children.* Abbie has never shown the inclination to sit still and watch something for 90 minutes. The closest she comes is watching "Mary Poppins," but even then we have to fast forward the DVD player to a song. She has trouble sitting through the double-length episodes of Dora.
The movie they saw is "Wall-E." Mommy knew she had to be cognizant of the other viewers in the theater. Even though this was a weekday matinee meaning there were about nine other people in the theater, and most of those were parents with young children who were also trying to be cognizant of the other viewers, Abbie's complaining could still annoy the other patrons. Mommy entered the theater with low expectations, ready to leave at the first whine.
Abbie did very well. The previews scared her, but she watched the short before the movie and settled down. She enjoyed about the first hour, laughed at the appropriate parts, and told mommy she wanted to leave. This desire to leave may be related to her suddenly running out of Gummi Bears. Mommy led her out of the theater as promised, and returned home to relay to me the great news. Then looked up the ending on the Internet because that's the only way she'll find out what happens before the DVD comes out.
* Neither are the boys, but that's a
posted by Matt at
11:18 PM
1 Comments:
We've tried our kids at movies every 4 months or so since they were almost two. Just last week, we made it through an entire movie for the very first time. (It was also WALL-E). THe popcorn had a lot to do with it.
Chris and I have left many a kid movie wondering what happened after the first 20 minutes.
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