Elysia is on a business trip so Citrus and I are just hanging out. She wants to go watch Army Wives or “that movie with the Captain and the boat”.
We were channel-surfing last night and wound up watching Midway, a war movie with Charlton Heston, by default. We were briefly watching something more benign, but she became terrified by Martin Lawrence running around undercover as a huge woman in Big Momma’s House. Although I suppose it could have been Big Momma’s House 2.
When I told her that the movies she wanted were not on she asked me “How come Army Wives is always not on.” I tried to explain how we can watch DVDs all the time, and over and over, but things on television are always different. Of course, this is practically a thing of the past with video-on-demand and TIVO. We do not have either.
Not much scares her although that changes as the months go by. Her first movie in a theater, at six months old, was King Kong and she was fine. And we watched Black Hawk Down while Elysia was deployed. The first time did not faze her, the second time she wanted to know “what happened to the man”. I told her he fell down and got a boo-boo. A very bad boo-boo.
Tonight I suggested that we could watch a different movie about a boat, Master and Commander. She wanted to know if it was scary like Big Momma but then told me that she is not afraid, like Sheila Rae in one of her books. So we are going to try it.
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Danielle and I tried to bring Sean to the theater for Iron Man when he was about 5 months old. We thought he’d sleep through it, but the first time something went BANG, which is about 5 minutes in, he started crying. Thankfully, it was a morning showing, so there were only two other people there. Sean watched the rest of the movie with us and didn’t make a peep.