An Adventurous Movie Date With A Year Old

In the list of all “firsts”, another one ticked on my little one’s list.

So much discussion and research went into the selection of a movie. We wanted to go for an animation one, however, keeping 3D glasses on a year-old was not going with the plan. We settled for “Dangal” and it turned out to be a really good decision.

Well to be true, we did not decide it because of its reviews. My little music lover stops whatever she does when any song in this movie starts playing. She has learned the cutest dance moves. Her bums sway along with the beats of the song and we just can not stop laughing/admiring her.

My “fast” (two years) of not going to movie theater broke as well, as soon as we decided that she was old enough to let us sit for the whole movie. I was skeptical of this decision, considering my hyperactive baby recently found her scary monster voice and uses it for almost everything she wants. I went into the battlefield of three three-hour movies with my husband and three more soldiers to face whatever my little one could surprise me with.

Initial 15 minutes:

For the initial 15 minutes of the movie, she was in a mute zone. It was her first experience in a dark room filled with people and humongous T.V. playing music in Dolby sound effects. She was quietly sitting and eating chocolate biscuits on her dad’s lap. After 15 or 20 minutes she slept. I was on cloud nine, it was the interval and no trouble at all. The icing on the cake was that the movie was really good and we all were thoroughly enjoying it.

Post interval a song woke her up and she started her usual dance moves. I started to panic thinking of embarrassment if she started screaming or crying. To my utter surprise, nothing happened. We were one step ahead in our planning and bought popcorn and nachos. Oodles of thanks to these snacks my movie time was as happy as I expected it to be.

And it happened:

I was enjoying movie time and before I could realize it, my super-active baby threw a half-empty bucket of popcorn right at the head of the person sitting in a row in front of us. Believe me, never have I ever prayed this sincerely to be an invisible person or thought of denying the fact that I and little monster are related at all. I froze for a moment and said sorry like five times so quickly that that person laughed a little. He looked at my little one, smiled, and said no problem.

I picked my baby and she showed those puppy eyes with her hands on her ear which is how she says and shows she was sorry. Well, the experience of the movie was good overall, big thanks to the stranger who could have made it bitter.

I am writing this with the hope that one day she will read it and realize that her carefree nature in childhood brought a lot of laughter moments for us. be a carefree beautiful human being once you grow up my sweet pie, not like throwing empty buckets on people’s heads sorts (LOL)but carefree to be happy in life.

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