For the past couple weeks the favorite movie around our house has been Bolt. I LOVE it. If you haven't seen it, please try to. And if you get it for your kids, sit down and watch it with them, at least a couple times. I liked it quite a bit when I first saw it with the boys in the theater but every time I watch it I think it's better and better. You gotta see it.
Anyway, my boys love it too and I can already tell it is going to make a permanent stand in our family language. Just last weekend I was taking the three of them into a public restroom to wash up after a family dinner out. Matthew and Will were just ahead of me and went into the mens' room before I could grab them and drag them into the ladies'. I went ahead and washed Joseph up in the ladies' room and then stood outside the mens' room door waiting for them to come out. I could hear them in there laughing and finally had to crack the door and offer a stern, "Boys, I'm counting to 3 . . ." They came out giggling having not accomplished anything for all their time in there--never even washed their hands. Will looked up at me with cheeks limp and droopy from the exhaustion of laughing, gave me a sleepy smile, and quoted a line from one of the animal control workers who is lamenting the fact that her coworkers are idiots, "Mom," he said, "You work with toddlers." He, of course, missed the irony in the whole thing but I laughed so hard he thought he had delivered a brilliant joke.
My favorite line (or at least one of them) I will share with you here. It takes place when Bolt realizes he does not, in fact, have super powers and is about to give up on his quest when Rhino the Hamster (who is hilarious) enters and boosts his confidence back up with a fabulous little monologue.
". . . They need a hero Bolt. Someone, who no matter what the odds, will do what's right. They need a hero to tell them that sometimes the impossible can become possible"--oh, that's nice I thought, a good message, but I didn't realize 'ol Rhino wasn't done and the end just makes the whole thing--he coninues--
"sometimes the impossible can become possible. IF. YOUR'E. AWESOME!"
So, my message to you: BE AWESOME!
And tell your kids they are too.
3 comments:
Kids can be very entertaining which makes having them worth the pain. If they are good kids, they will keep you laughing for years.
Ah, the old waiting-outside-the-men's-room thing. Been there, done that.
We need to see that movie. I wanted to, but we just never got to it for some reason. Maybe I'll go buy it and surprise everyone.
we watched that last week-end. Cute movie! I love Will's comment to you!
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