Thursday, April 23, 2009

Monsters vs Aliens

Being a rather big movie buff myself, I looked forward to the time I could take Jayden to the movies with me. I was not sure exactly when this would happen I just knew knew it would, some day....

So they started airing commercials for this movie over a month ago and ever since Jayden has been foaming at the mouth every time he sees one. After said commercial would end he would squeal out either "I go see, I go see!" or "Monnnnsterrrrrrs" or some version of "We go Target" (to buy it). Add that to that the fact that the Golden Arches is dropping a little Monsters vs Aliens plastic nugget into every kids meal and it quickly became apparent that we may "need" to go see this movie with him.

After reading several reviews online from parents that took their 3 year olds I was convinced it would not scare the daylights out of him and we decided we would give it a go and take him to his first movie.

So all three of us headed to the 10:30am showing at the mall. We got there a little early to get good seats and wasted a little time by the arcade machines. We went and got some popcorn and one of the "kids" boxes for the little man, he was very excited. He got to hold the tickets and gave them to the nice man when he was supposed too.

We walked into the theater and it was cool to see how he reacted; Stopping to stare at the "big tv" for a minute, telling me "it's darrk", looking at a new kind of chair he had never seen with seat that flipped up and down, oh and look a cup holder for my drink too.

The movie had been out for several weeks by this time and there were only a handful of other families in the theater, perfect. After he got settled and figured out how to keep from being "folded up" in the chair he was good to go. Also very excited that he got to have his own Sprite, little box of popcorn, some fruit snacks and his blankie. He looked pretty darn cute (sorry, to dark for cell phone pics).

After what seemed like 6-7 previews, after each Jayden would say "I want watch Monsters now please", the movie finally started. It was a little slow for the first 10 minutes and I wondered if it was going to hold his attention but soon after the chick gets hit by an asteroid, grows 50ft, the action kicked in and he was glued to it for the next 90 minutes. He did great and kept quite for the most part. When he would let out a yip of excitement or ask a question I would lean over and tell him "We have to use our quite voices in here ok" and he would lean over and whisper back "ok, ...." and repeat whatever he had just said, cute. One time it was rather funny when a character walked into a huge, silent, empty room and said "HELLO!?!??" to which Jayden of course offered "Hello!". He was a big fan of the giant "fuzzy" monster and the little blue blob guy too.

He was all tuckered out by the movies end, asking to go home in the last 90 seconds or so of the movie because he wanted a nap. Mom packed up our stuff, I slung him over my shoulder and we headed for home.

Perfect.