A great milestone was reached last weekend... Evie went for the very first time to the movies! The Tucson International Children's Film Festival started last Saturday at the Loft (which is within walking distance of the house) and I just couldn't resist the opportunity to let Evie try going to the movies; after all as a kid growing up in Arizona she must become accustomed to the two most important summer-coping mechanisms, pool and movie theater.
Saturday's film was The Wizard of Oz. Not only was the whole shebang free but there was even a goody bag and activities waiting for us once we got inside. Some crazy person thought it would be really funny to put little noise-making horns in those goody bags so the whole theater was a cacophony of honk-honking both before and during the movie. Evie's favorite item in the goody bag was the glow stick, which she called her magic fairy wand. Genevieve turned out to be a great movie goer, we only got up two or three times (to get more free popcorn... then a drink... then the potty) and although she spent the last 1/2 hour or so standing up she stayed in one spot the whole time and didn't ask to leave. In fact, when it came time to leave she pitched a bit of a fit.
Saturday was so much fun I decided we should go again on Sunday and this time drag Patrick along too for all the fun. Sunday's movie was even better (mostly because I'd never seen it before) Howl's Moving Castle, a Japanese cartoon (dubbed in English for the non-literate set). Evie either sat in her chair or on my lap for the whole film, it was great! I still don't think she is ready for prime-time-pay-money-in-a-real-theater movie but hey she is definitely making progress!
(The photo is another from the Rhode Island trip... I am not quite dorky enough to bring a camera to my daughter's first trip to the movies)
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