Movies with the fam.....never again!

Well at least not for a very long time. A few months back when they were hyping up the movie and selling the first 2 Toy Story's, I got the package deal (with stellar coupons) and inside were coupons for free tickets. With movie tickets costing the amount that they do now, that made my day. We planned on taking the kids once it came out. 2 child tickets shouldn't be so bad right?

Wrong, we had to pay for my 1 year old. $6 freaking dollars. But let's not get carried away. You can't put a price on quality family time, right? We missed the early movie (4:35) so we ended up with the 7:40 showing (sleepy time for little people) and still ended up in the front. I got popcorn and a large drink and we settled in for an enjoyable time. First gripe, there should not be 20 min of previews in the beginning of a child's movie. Under the age of 5, they don't understand or care. They just want to see the movie already. Plus, that's 20 min of 30 min of time my 1 year old had in her to sit, eat popcorn and pretend that she would stay that way the whole movie.

Finally, it starts. All is well, I'm proud that my kids are almost quietly stuffing their faces and paying some attention to the screen. Soon the popcorn and juice gets old for the diva and she starts to move around a little too much for the chair which she is already in danger of falling through, LOL. Nothing is appeasing her.....I can't let her get loud......she doesn't want popcorn....think mommy think, what do we do? Right, pass her down to daddy. She waddles down a chair and sits for all of 5 minutes before she starts whining. Aw shucks, the back up pacifier is not in the bag, I think I saw it on the couch earlier today. Dang it, plan C, candy. Not the best choice but I know it'll keep her quiet. Now big brother has decided that all the popcorn is finished and he needs to go throw the bucket and napkins away. Um no dude, we just put it on the floor until the movie is over. "But I just want to get up for a minute," oh my, what have we gotten ourselves into. Candy for big brother too. Whew, this buys us about 10-15 min before diva loses her first piece and mommy must indulge some more. But now she wants to walk and eat......is the movie over already? She's sticking her head in between the seats talking to people and totally not concerned about the screen.

So for the last 45 min, it was just a toss up between sitting, walking, talking, minimal whining (thankfully) and the movie finally ended. Whew! I think it was good. I do remember seeing some parts. Definitely getting it when it comes out on dvd and definitely leaving the visits out to the movie theater with the whole family for a few years down the line. Maybe preteen years, LOL.

The toothbrushes are downstairs

Yep, they are. In the guest bathroom of all places. And now that you're wondering what I'm talking about....I'll indulge. So I had this slight problem. We spend most of our time as a family downstairs. The kids do everything down here except sleep and take a bath. Most of the time, they even get dressed downstairs both in the morning and evening. So when it was time to brush teeth, the toothbrushes were upstairs. Instead of them brushing twice a day, it was usually just once. Not good at all if you're trying to instill good dental practices. They had no problem brushing when it was time, but mom was just lazy. *shame*

I follow several mom blogs and one that I read recently was talking about how hard it was for her to keep up with laundry because she hated the task of folding her 5 boys clothes and them putting them away....upstairs. She and her husband decided that since the laundry room was connected to their closet and it was a huge closet, they would move their kids dressers downstairs into the closet and hang up their clothes there. Therefore making the whole process easy and never having to worry about piles of clothes waiting for attention because they could be put up as soon as they were cleaned. That got me to thinking about teeth brushing. What if I moved the toothbrushes downstairs????? Hmmm....yep. I decided to try it and it's working. Yay! Good clean teeth at least twice a day. Of course since they are in the guest bathroom I have to be ready in case we have some drop ins but that's no prob. Grab and throw in our bathroom and we're good to go.

In other news, it's a 4 day wknd. Woohoo! I love these. 4 days of no work. So far, not sure what we're going to do for the 4th of July but I'm pretty sure we'll grill before the weekend is out. The weather has been nice here for the past few days since we've had some light showers so it makes being outside actually bearable. I'm hoping we can chill with some friends and neighbors but we'll have to see.