"The Movie Show"

So we decided to be brave, courageous, or just plaim dumb (depending on how you look at it) and take Cayden to his first movie. He's been mentioning Dr. Suess a lot lately, and everytime we see a commercial for Horton hears a Who, he gets excited. We decided to go on Friday night. We took Emalee to stay with her grammy and grampy. The movies started at 7:00 pm and 9:15pm. We figured earlier was better, but we also needed to feed him dinner before the movie started. Matt gets home at 6:15 from work. We quickly went to dinner and then headed to the movie. It was late, about 7:45 pm when we got our tickets, but we didn't care because we figured he wouldn't last through a 2 hour movie anyway. This turned out to be a good plan. He had fun, but he was definitely bored within 30 minutes. He wasn't heavy enough to keep the seat down, and it kept folding up him if he moved a certain way. We would hear this muffled, "help, help." I imagine Cayden's thoughts were something like this:

Oh Wow. I love the big screen. Wow cool. I like the dark. The movie is loud so I can be loud too. Everyone keeps laughing when I shout back at the characters. I am drinking mommy's real coke to help entertain me, and she doesn't seem to care. This is great! I am eating gummy bears and drinking coke. I like this place. Let's see if I can take handfuls of daddy's popcorn and shove them into mommy's mouth. This is fun... the popcorn is going everywhere... I am making a hell of a mess and nobody cares. Everyone just throws their junk of the floor, and you can be loud inside, and eat a ton of sugar... The "Movie Show" rocks!

The "movie show" is what Cayden calls the movies. Not sure why, but that is his term for the big screen. All in all, it was a fun night for all of us... kind of nice to have a special night with just Cayden. We'll make sure Emalee gets her share of special nights too.