Independence Day means many things to many different people. To the founding fathers of our country, it meant a permanent avoidance of tea-related taxes. To the manufacturers of explosive elements, it means cash/money accompanied by minor losses of limbs. To my children, it means the opportunity to be up late at night as well as a chance to gaze upon said explosive elements as they combust high above our heads...hopefully. As for me, it means a late night with lots of pretty sights to behold. However, it also means that due to everyone being tired, the next day might be slightly interesting. Therefore, that makes it important to plan ahead and come up with nice, calming activities to keep my little friends occupied on said day.
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| Bandit is my spirt animal. |
The morning really wasn't too bad. For one thing, both kids seemed to sleep a little later than normal. For another, today was Ellie's seven-year exam at the doctor. In case you're wondering, she is now in the 97th percentile for height with much more growth ahead. In fact, the doctor broke it to me in gentle terms that Ellie is going to be very tall. Outside of that, Ellie's exam was relatively uneventful. I even was able to keep both kids from opening the emergency exit inexplicably placed in our exam room so I consider that a win.
Following Ellie's exam, we had one brief stop on our way home: Dollar General. Now, I don't usually shop at Dollar General. However, on this occasion, there was something in particular that I needed to pick up. That item was three boxes of theater candy. You see, I had planned ahead and decided that today would be a great day to take Ellie and Ethan to a $3 Summer movie at AMC. The movie of choice? Kung-Fu Panda! So, after picking out our candy, we headed home to hang out for about an hour before eating an early lunch and piling in the Traverse to head to AMC.
Once we arrived at AMC, we headed inside and purchased our tickets first thing. Then, after a quick bathroom break, we headed to our theater to find our seats. While Ellie has been in a movie theater once before with Bethany, Ethan has not. Therefore, everything was new and exciting to him. Once the trailers began playing, Ethan began asking over and over if he was watching the movie. Eventually he understood that he was watching advertisements. That didn't stop him from being really excited about the advertisement for a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Finally, after much anticipation, Kung-Fu Panda began.
Ellie, for her part, remained fairly quiet during the showing, choosing to just watch the movie and enjoy her treat of Milk Duds. Ethan though was plagued by extreme curiosity and slight confusion about the movie's characters prompting him to ask a multitude of questions in between bites of Reese's Pieces. That was no big deal though as I was more than happy to help him understand. Before we knew it, our movie experience had ended and it was time to go home.
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| CANDY!!! |
Honestly, this was the perfect situation to take a kid to their first movie. First of all, the fact that between candy and tickets, our outing only cost about $15 was pretty cool. Secondly, since Kung-Fu Panda is an older film, no one was unhappy about Ethan's relative lack of volume control that he exhibited when asking his many questions.
Now, I find myself wondering what Ethan's first brand new movie in the theater will be. Guess I'll just have to wait and see on that one. After all, he's probably much too young to enjoy the new Mission: Impossible with me even if he does have a remarkably similar name to Tom Cruise's protagonist.
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| Don't worry; we didn't take any photos during the actual movie. |
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