What a combo.....
I question my parenting techniques sometimes. I just wondering if I am doing the right thing.
So lets kick off with the hero of the selection.....Harry Potter. The Harry Potter series has been out for sometime. I started reading the books after watching the first film and falling in love with the wizard world. By the time I got to the 4 book I was already ready for the next one. So when I found out I was pregnant with Ri was excited that I could share these with my son. There are so many books/movies that I would love to enjoy with him and this is one of them.
Ri has turned into me a giant movie fanatic. There are days we have movie and pj days and we can sit and watch movies all days. At 3...I am impressed how he can sit for a movie. Maybe he turned into a movie kid considering he went to his first one when he was like 6 days old. (Parenting choice one I questioned for a long time). We took him to Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skulls. I was worried it would hurt his hearing....I muffled his little head with a blanket and he slept the whole time.
Anyhow....he watched an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place and seemed to really enjoy the magic of it. So I said well you want to watch Harry Potter (HP) with me and that has some pretty awesome magic too. He of course refused. Until recently, HP was coming out with the last installment of movies. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. In honor of this everything went HP. Some Family Channel was playing all the HPs back to back to back. Riley sat and started to watch one very intently. I told him that if he wanted to watch from the beginning we could. And he was genuinely excited about it.
In addition to this soon to be HP fest at home, I was going to have a HP fest of my own. A few select theaters were showing all 8 movies - 2 movies a night for 4 days. I got to do this with a couple of good friends Allie and Kellie. Anyhow while I was watching them at the theaters I was watching them at home with Riley too....it could be said I was Pottered Out! But none the less enjoyed every minute of it.
During this wizarding-palooza, I had told someone I was letting Ri at the tender age of 3 watch them. And they looked at me with a bit of shock and asked if he was afraid. I said no, and without thinking told him that he watched Night of the Living Dead with me at Halloween. And slowly I saw her face change from total disbelief to as if she was being eaten by a zombie....next post.....
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