We had movie night tonight. We usually do that on the weekends with the kids. As usual, I am coaxed out of my quiet corner of the house and into the basement where the tiny boys fight over me. Jonah won for a while. He played the kissing game, the one where he just kisses me and anyone sitting within a two cushion distance, back and forth the whole time. Then he plays with my hair and drapes it over my face.
Amos pauses the movie a hundred times and rewinds to hear what he missed because the little boys are causing a stir. Also, when we watch kid movies, he morphs into an eight year old boy. It's really amazing.
Tonight's cinematic DISAPPOINTMENT was "How to Train Your Dragon II." Spoiler alert! Click off this thread if you haven't seen it and don't want to know that Hiccup's beloved father is killed when Toothless is temporarily mind-controlled by the alpha male dragon and zaps him... while he's saving his son's life.
The ONLY reason I wasn't sobbing uncontrollably like everyone else was because I was being kissed by a mind controlling toddler in my lap and I couldn't see a thing.
Ava was sobbing so hard she was gasping for air that I thought she might stop breathing. Gabriel was crumpled in the corner of the green couch mopping his tears away with a saturated tissue and crying "I give up!"
Jack tried to remain 'Stoic' (pun very much intended... if you've seen the flick).
Andrea was taking statistics on the ratio of cryers to non-cryers, and that was probably just to keep from crying herself.
After they float the dad's body off on a boat and set it aflame with burning arrows, they dub Hiccup the new leader. Oh, one last part. Did I mention that they had just been reunited with their wife/mother after twenty years of longing and separation?
Fast forward to bedtime and Amos is sandwiched in the girls' bed. Gabriel is passed out from emotional exhaustion and Jack is cuddled up with Jonah and Frank- the stuffed dachshund.
The End.
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