Family movie afternoon
Marissa and Katie have been good movie watchers for years, but the last movie we took the entire family to see was Polar Express last winter. Claire was two and a half and we figured it would a good first non-drive-in movie for her.
We were wrong.
Halfway through the movie she wouldn’t sit still. She ended up walking up and down the aisle until I relocated with her to the back of the the theater and bear hugged her for the rest of the movie.
Because eight months is a large portion of a toddler’s lifetime, we thought we’d give it another chance this weekend with March of the Penguins.
It didn’t work either. While she didn’t run down the aisles, she wouldn’t sit in any of the chairs in the row, nor on either parent’s lap. She did however slept in the car on the way home.
It was, however, tramatic for Katie, the otherwise avid moviegoer. It hadn’t occurred much to Katie that baby animals don’t always live. While the time lapse photography of a cracked egg freezing didn’t sink in, the shot of an adult penguin poking at his chick’s frozen carcass DID. And the adult penguins leaving their young at the end of winter didn’t go over too well either.
She was bawling when we left the theater.