Hello everyone. Thanks for your kind words of sympathy on the occasion of my cancelled flight. Me and my suitcase are both home. Already I have some lovely photos of Aidan baking Bob's birthday cake which I'll post later.For now, I just have to remind you all not to take a nine-year-old boy with you when you finally do go see the movie Twilight. Against my better judgement, Aidan came with me and Amanda. Honestly, I think he was intrigued by the vampire fight scenes he had heard about. The reality went something like this.
Angst. Passion. Forbidden love. The bad vampires are about to eat the man in the boat. . .
Aidan: Mom, I need some popcorn. Can we go get some popcorn? Please? I want popcorn. (We exit the theater, get popcorn, return.)
Angst. Passion. Forbidden love. Edward and Bella leaping the spectacular tree tops of the Olympic Penninsula. . .
Aidan: Mom, I have to go to the bathroom. (This I don't question; immediately we exit the theater, go, return.)
Angst. Passion. Forbidden love. Edward must save Bella's life from the evil James. . .
Aidan: Mom, my tooth just fell out. (What?! We exit the theater. Sure enough, a tooth in hand and blood all over the face. Go back to bathroom to clean up. Return.)
Angst. Passion. Forbidden love. Bella and Edward will never be apart again. . .
During times when we were actually sitting in our seats, if Aidan wasn't bored then he was utterly scared and sat with his eyes closed and his ears plugged, balancing the bag-o-popcorn on his lap. We watch a large portion of the movie from the back of the theater. Me on the inside of the door. He on the outside of the door.
Evidently coming up at school is a field trip to a live performance of "The Nutcracker." Aidan says to me: Mom, you gotta get me out of this. Please. Give Aidan a remote control and a recliner and he's good to go.
Anyway, I still enjoyed the movie.
Cheers, T
photo: my little romantic riding in the back seat
Mom we have to go again for try number three, without any disturbances.
ReplyDeleteHere's a smile for you: the boy who wanted you to get him out of going to the Nutcracker wrote a very nice note to the PTO thanking us for sending them -- he said it was fun!
ReplyDeleteI love it, Terri! I can picture the whole thing! You gotta love it!
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about your air adventures. Steven had a similar experience in DC not to long ago. Luckily we don't fly often, so we don't have to deal with airline yuck often.
Keep me in your prayers, I have my first winter concert on Dec. 3rd and am a wee bit nervous... okay, a lot bit. Surely it's not that bad that your band can't play through a whole song from beginning to end the week before the concert, is it!? Eek!
Sending our love your way!