Spring Break
The first day of spring break! Whoo-hoo! Or not.
Actually, I still must be cheerful from this weekend because I wasn’t a horrible, grouchy, mean mother today. It was raining out, so we headed to the last Playtime at the Plex and got some energy out. We had to get home pretty quickly afterward and wait around for the telephone repair people.
Talk about feeling like a stupid idiot. Despite going through tech support and doing everything I was asked to do, the problem still came down to something that didn’t need a repairman. The bleepity-bleeping phone was unplugged! My neighbor must have knocked it out when she was cleaning.
They did say the jack was a little loose, so they replaced it. They weren’t very amused by the whole situation, though.
Erik, of course, was full of ideas and kept talking to them and wanting to help them. I tried to occupy him, but one of the guys said he had a four year old and told me he didn’t mind Erik watching and asking questions. It’s nice when people are nice to my kid.
I was really excited when Mike told me the yellow lines came out of the charity quilt. Then I went down and got it. I think the dear man needs an eye exam. The lines are there, a nice bright yellow under the pink thread. We just had a big discussion about it and he still can’t see them, but they jump out at me as soon as I look at the quilt. I don’t know what to do. I have to send it back. The organization sent me the kit to put it together so it’s not like it is a random charity thing that doesn’t have to be done. Maybe I am being too hard on myself? I don’t know. I find it to be a very unattractive quilt, but part of that is because I don’t care for the fabric and part of it is because they wanted the binding zig-zagged so it won’t catch on IV lines. I’ll take a picture tomorrow when I have better lighting and you can all see what I’ve been going on about for the past month.
Have any of you seen “How to Train Your Dragon?” Erik has been asking to go see a kid movie, so I said we’d go see that one. Then I looked at a review and freaked out. The review said it was rated PG-13 and very inappropriate for young children with lots of cursing and violence. Someone on FB said it was just PG, so I did some digging and found it is just PG. I would really like to ask someone with children just how appropriate or inappropriate it is. Erik gets scared by a lot of conflict, especially when things aren’t fair. He loves dragons. He’s been asking about the movie the moment he gets up the past three days. I don’t know if I should take him or not. I wish I never would have mentioned it.
The only other movies he’s seen at the theatre were “Up!” and “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.” He enjoyed the novelty of the movie going experience, but he was also quite bored and wiggly through both of them.
bethany actually said,
March 29, 2010 @ 8:39 pm
We just went to see How to Train Your Dragon yesterday with Annalie and Bug, who are almost 6 and 4, and they both loved it. **Spoilers ahead!**
Brenda kept thinking Bug might be scared during a couple of intense scenes and trying to hold her, and Bug kept pushing her away and saying, “I’m not scared!” which was pretty funny. Annalie was leaning her head on my arm during some of the more intense parts, which usually means she’s feeling a tiny bit unsure, but overall she really liked it and I didn’t think it was scary. I would say it was definitely action-packed, and there were some really amazingly animated flying scenes that were cool but intense even to me (some rapid falls, etc.) I didn’t hear any cussing. There was some ribbing among the kids (who I think were supposed to be teenagers) at the draging-fighting school, but it was fairly mild. Also one or two brief, very PG kisses.
The main human character figured out early on that he would never be able to kill a dragon, like he was supposed to, so he spent much of the film figuring out ways to “train” the dragons he had to fight at the school for practice so that they would submit to him. Almost all the dragons in the movie behaved like cats or dogs, not scary, at least never for long. At the end the main battle is with one enormous “bad-guy” dragon but it was over fairly quickly and the kids won by teaming up and using ingenuity.
Brenda says she didn’t think it was any scarier than Up, what with the flying scenes, the storm, and all the dogs. The adults all enjoyed the movie too, it was really well-done!
By the way, we didn’t see the 3D version, I think it might be a little scarier in 3D.
Hope that helps! 😉