Take two at the first movie was a success! Well, sort of.
Let me explain.
The success was in the fact that we bought tickets in advance from Fandango, we got to the theater in plenty of time to ensure we'd get seats (in doing that, we understood the sell-out yesterday... they have Winnie the Pooh in a theater with only 74 seats in it!), we got our popcorn bucket filled, and we even had a separate cup for Michaela to use so she wouldn't have to dig in the big bucket.
The "sort of" was in the fact that we got there early enough to ensure we would get seats. What that meant, of course, was that we were there WAY early. So we sat through 15 minutes of commercials, and THEN another 20 minutes of previews, and THEN the short animated film they had to throw in before the movie started, and THEN we finally got to the movie. If it hadn't been for all that extra time, it would've been a very successful trip.
Instead, we had a toddler, who doesn't generally sit still for longer than about 15 minutes at a time, bouncing out of her seat about 10 minutes into the movie. There was spilled popcorn, lost shoes (which were found, but which she didn't want to put back on, though she wanted to stand up... ewwwww!), a dropped sippy cup (multiple times... again, ewwww!), and, finally, the appearance of the emergency pacifier to try to get her to relax for the last 20 minutes or so of the movie.
Next time, one of us will go get seats while the other waits at home with the kid, or goes over to Target to wander around until just before the movie starts. We thought a movie that was just over an hour long wouldn't be too bad, but we were wrong!!
Meanwhile, today's picture is another iPhone one and it's terrible. But it's all I had to document the momentous occasion. Can you tell that my girl doesn't normally see a flash? (My DSLR doesn't even have an integrated flash so I NEVER use one!)
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