MONSTERS...U.

showing me their monster faces...scary, right??

 
The weather has been less than lovely here lately and we've been getting a TON of rain.  Today, after the gym, I decided to take the boys to the 11:00 showing of Monsters U.  I was planning on getting a sitter one afternoon for Andy and just taking Cal, but I figured I would just give it a shot. 

All in all, they did great-- I am not surprised Cal did great-- he can sit still without problem! Andy, on the other hand, is well... let's just say full of energy!

As we were walking into the theater, I got a popcorn for us and a diet coke for me, and then I carried in two of the kid seats that velcro onto the regular seats... we were in the back hallway area walking in and the previews were on and they were LOUD.  Andy froze in his place and started crying.  I panicked thinking we weren't going to last long AT ALL if I couldn't even get him IN the theater! Cal carried the seats for me and I picked up Andy and tried to calm him down. 

He wanted nothing to do with any seat other than my lap, which was fine by me! I had each boy's sippy cup and we shared the popcorn together.  It made me happy to get to do that with both of them.

sitting on my lap

The previews were long.  Like, reallllllly realllllllly long.   The movie was scheduled to start at 11:00 and I'm guessing it was around 11:35 when it actually started.  I was worried Andy would be over it about 10 minutes into the movie since it got a late start. 

He did GREAT until about halfway through-- then he wanted to stand up.  There was only one other family in the theater, and they were 20 rows back, so I wasn't worried about them.  We were in the front of our section, so Andy had room to stand up.  He would drop his flip flop down a level and then go to retrieve it (yes, my kid was barefoot in the movie theater-- cringe).  He was super quiet though so we were able to stay longer...

Then, as momma finished off the last of her DC, she had to peepee...badly.  I tried not thinking about it.  Then I said something to Cal about it being almost time to go.  Andy over heard that and started saying "time to go? time to go?" in his usual loud voice!

So we headed out to the lobby for some arcade games-- they love pretending to play!

A few sweet things during the movie-- Andy is into repeating everything.  One of the monsters "roared" at a kid in training camp, and Andy ROARED back as loud as his little voice would let him.  It was hilarious and I could hear the family behind us laughing.  Another time, a monster walked into a room and said, "hello?" to which Andy replied: "HELLLOOOOOOO!!!!!" hahahaha! Never a dull moment with this guy around!
And, at one point, Andy reached over and took Cal's hand and they held hands for a while.  Cal leaned over and said "you don't need to be scared, ahndy." I wanted to cry.  I couldn't kiss on them both enough!

 I am excited to be getting closer to being able to take them on "adventures" like this by myself.  Now, leaving the theater and the fountain out front was a WHOLE different story.  It wasn't pretty.  At all.  I had several people give me the "oh, poor lady has her hands full!" look.  Yes, I do! But it's getting better and better....!