Today, we took you to see only your fourth movie in the theater: Disney's "The Tooth Fairy." It was cute and had Julie Andrews in it, so you loved it. But you spent a good portion of the movie in my lap -- when you don't know what's coming or it gets a little intense, you get scared.
You're funny about movies. As I mentioned, until now we've only been able to get you to three other movies in the theater:
1) "Horton Hears a Who" (Your first movie. It's about an elephant - so done deal.)
2) "Madagascar 2" (You loved the first one on DVD. But we almost had to carry you out of the theater after the first two minutes when the poachers go after Baby Alex.)
3) "Monsters Vs. Aliens" (Grandma and Grandpa wanted to see this so you decided it would be ok.)
Some of this could stem from trying to show you "The Incredibles" when you were two. You wouldn't watch that, so we turned on the cartoon short with Baby Jack-Jack... who burst into flames every time he hiccuped. Your eyes grew to the size of tires as you cried, "The baby is fire... the baby is FIRE!" Yeah, we should have screened that first.
Your favorite movie of ALL TIME is "Cars." But other than that, you don't like branching out into new movies and you certainly don't like anything REMOTELY scary. When you were two and "The Little Mermaid" came out on DVD, I was SOOOOOO excited to watch that with you. Then came Ursula... and you've never watched that movie again. You won't go near "Beauty and the Beast" or "Sleeping Beauty." At Parents Night Out, the teachers know that you'd rather watch Thomas the Train or almost anything than the movie. (And if they don't know, you'll walk up and tell them, "This movie is to scary for me.")
Don't know if this is just a phase... or if you'll be very much like your Grandma and stick to G-rated stuff. But for today, we had a great time at the movies.
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