We went to our first movie!
What else could we do after watching Cars 5,295,392,501 times?
It was our only option.
Husband got some deal for Fandango and was all set to take them and have a great time.
And then, out of nowhere, I decided to start potty training the Crazies...three days before our first movie experience.
That's what you get for not planning your potty training...unexpected obstacles.
We decided to put the Crazies in Pull-ups, but tell them that they were just like underwear and even if you peed in them, they probably wouldn't work (I am so screwed when they figure out that I am a compulsive liar...I seriously base my parenting on untruths). We also brought along a potty and forced both of them to use it before we entered the theater.
I wanted to get there early to get an aisle seat in case of frequent potty breaks and that was a smart idea.
Here are some highlights:
- Matt did not pee the entire time we were out of the house. That includes a 20 minute car ride, 30 minute wait for the movie to start, 2 hour movie, 20 minute car ride back home. The kid has a bladder like an elephant.
- I'm sure because I didn't research "elephant bladder" on Google that some smart ass will tell me that an elephant actually has a really small bladder...that is just my luck.
- Hailey had to break for the potty three times and actually went twice.
- My highlight of her potty breaks was hanging Baby Girl on the hooks from her dress. I don't know why...it just made me laugh...silly hanging baby.
- Those movie booster seats were a huge highlight for me. I didn't even know they existed! They were perfect for my skinny-ass children who could barely hold the seat down with their little legs...the seats did all of the work.
- The girl at the counter was about to fill up my soda when she showed me a water-tower-sized cup (mine) and says, "do you want a large instead?" My response was "what the hell is that? You're telling me that isn't the large???"
- That's right...clearly, I'm pushing 40 b/c no self-respecting young mother would publicly question the size of a movie soda...ugh.
- Eating half the popcorn I bought for the Crazies (in my defense, I had no choice...they were much more interested in Husband's soft pretzels, of which we bought 4, to pay attention to my popcorn).
- Yes, it does signal the Death of my Waistline...thank you very little.
- Hailey asking if she could color 5 minutes before the movie ended...so much for a climactic ending. You gotta work harder than that to satisfy Hailey.
- Matt getting really excited at different parts, leaning over to one of us, and saying, "didja see dat??? didja see Lightning??"
- Then Hailey responding with "yeah! COOL!"
- As soon as the movie ended, Matt said, "I wanna see it again...can I watch it again?"
- He clearly doesn't get the difference between a theater movie and a DVD.
- Walking out of the theater with our biggest "mishap" having been me almost dropping Matt's Lightning McQueen car down the entire length of the theater...I would have been so pissed if we had to stay back so I could find that damn thing. Thank God my bag blocked this disaster (even if it did physically pain me to have the Kate Spade on a movie theater floor).
All in all, a great experience.
People have asked me what I thought about the movie itself. Truth be told, I was at the potty a lot, so I might have missed some of the key concepts. There was a lot more shooting, guns, and blowing stuff up than I was comfortable with given that I have an increasingly violent son in our midst. That didn't thrill me to death...especially b/c the first one didn't have any of that (yes, I get that this movie may have been intended for more mature audiences, but still...guns and bombs in a G-rated movie? Gah...there I go sounding like an old fogey again).
I missed Sally...where was she? Is there still a love interest there? I was really pulling for them (listen to me...I'm talking about a cartoon movie like it's The Bachelor).
I love Mator...glad to see more of the focus was on that dumb rusty old tow truck.
I heard some conspiracy theory (Mom) that the focus was on how Pixar wants us to use more alternative fuel and how the big oil companies are keeping their thumb on us not allowing us to better the environment...I didn't really get that, but I love those hippies...always something bigger than us happening, right? The Man is out to get us...
Who else saw Cars 2? What did you think?
Of course, I took pictures of the Crazies at the theater, but haven't been able to dump them off of whatever camera they are currently calling home, but I will soon...I have some camera dumping that needs to happen!
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My boys LOVED Cars 2. And the movie theater popcorn. We also discovered the booster seats for the first time. Awesome. Except the one with syrup that our friend Dean sat on. Oops.
They didn't even twitch the ENTIRE movie. No potty breaks. Just a nice movie together.
Like Matt though they are so used to instant gratification they have no concept of why we can't watch it again. And at home. EVERY.SINGLE.DAY.
Thank goodness for the new books and the new Finn and Holley, and Grim and Acer cars we got them.
Meant to ask - one of our friends didn't go because they had heard about "bad language" in the movie. Maybe I missed it, but other than the one scene with Finn complementing Mater on his disguise as the "fool" even racking my brain I couldn't come up with anything. Did anything jump out at you?
We went to see it Sunday and it was great only two potty breaks and they made it all the way to the last ten minutes before demanding to leave.
On the potty training note I didn't leave the house with my two during potting training for almost a month. You are brave. We also started with M&M's and then moved on to the harder stuff like skittles and starbursts. My boy would do anything for those.
Good luck.
We are going to take Brandon to see that this weekend for his first movie. I had not heard about the booster seats either. Probably since the last movie I saw in the theater was "Marley and Me" and "Titanic" before that.
Brandon asks us to 'back it up' when we're watching a regular show on TV. I'm not sure where he gets that from because he's only ever watched a handful of movies (he's more of a 'doer' than a 'watcher') but we have to explain that we can't back up the broadcast.
Sounds like a good first trip! I can't wait to take my girls to a movie soon...but I'm not brave enough yet. Maybe I should do it before we start potty training though! : )
PJ is still too little for the theatre in my opinion. You are brave. I know the crazies are only a few months older than him, but he's just not there yet.
Addy wanted to see more Sally, too. She steals all the Sally toys/stickers from E's stuff.
It's a kid's movie, so I don't care if the story line sucks, as long as the kids like it then that's all that matters. There was more shooting/violence, but considering Eligh has pretend guns and a tank, I'm not too concerned.
i have not seen a movie in over 2 years. at least in the theater.
do they have those seats AT the theater?
maybe one day i'll venture out. :)
I haven't seen it yet but Lil Duck's father took her the day after it opened in our city. She LOVED it. It was also her first movie theater experienc and from what I was told she did pretty well :o)
Holly Shiftwell has sort of replaced her love of Sally which pains me a little. I sure loved Sally. Mater still holds steady at the top with McQueen. So fun to hear the Crazies loved it too.
I totally thought of you and the Crazie when she went!
Jacob and I saw it this week. He liked it a lot and it was ok by me but didn't seem as funny as the first one. He must've gotten bored or antsy at one point b/c about 1/2 way through it, he asked if we could leave. He made it through most of it fine but had to go pee literally 3 minutes before it was done. I tried to get him to wait but he said he couldn't. We made it back in time for the final scene and credits.
Sarah wants to see it too but I'm going to try to convince her to wait or see the Winnie the Pooh movie when that comes out b/c I don't think she'll like Cars 2 that much.
2 hours was a pretty long movie for lil kids too...(honestly I had to pee really bad too when Jacob said he had to go!)
Popcorn was our lunch that day!
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