Movies!

Last night there was an outdoor movie showing at a nearby elementary school. We thought we'd take Morgan to see how he might do at a movie theater. Kind of a test run. The movie was Water Horse, but since it had to be dark to watch it on the projector outside, it didn't start till 9:30. Usually Morgan goes to bed at 9:00. We might not be the best parents when it comes to bedtime. Anyway, we brought our camp chairs and Morgan's cushiony spider-man chair and some popcorn. Morgan did great. But we didn't bring jackets and only a baby blanket. It soon was too cold for us so we left pretty early.
Today we took Morgan with us to a movie for the first time in a LONG time. We haven't trusted him in a movie theater, fearing that one of us would have to spend our time out in the hall with Morgan. But today we took him with us to watch Indiana Jones. We enjoyed the movie and Morgan was great! We kept his mouth full of candy, so he wasn't noisy, and the whole experience was enough of a novelty to him that he was fairly well entertained. He even fell asleep for part of the movie! It was nap time, after all. Sheesh, how irresponsible are we? First we keep Morgan up all night, then we take him to a loud movie during his nap... Oh, and on top of all of that we take him to a movie that has potentially nightmare inspiring images. Oy.
At one point I tried to put Morgan in a chair by himself. The theater was a pretty new one with the nice high-backed chairs and very springy bottom parts. I put Morgan in it but since his legs are so short and light it folded up with him in it and everything! He didn't seem to mind much that his feet were inches from his face, but I didn't leave him like that long; it didn't look comfortable. :)