Everyone's a Critic

Yesterday we got home from picking The Boy up at school and everyone was cold and crabby so I suggested a movie viewing.  The Boy looked through my old collection of Disney tapes and demanded The Lion King.

He's seen bits of it before, but I had to ride the fast forward button pretty hard to get past the scary parts (and there are A LOT of scary parts). I reminded him that it was a scary movie, but he was set on it.

So, we watched it. I hit fast forward a lot on my own, but sometimes he would ask me to fast forward, saying, "This part is TOO scary." 

Finally, we  get  to the middle of the movie--the  love scene between Simba and his  long  lost love as "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" swells in the background--and I thought this would be a good, non-scary opportunity to sneak off and deposit The Girl, whose nursing session had been the real reason for this little film festival.  As I'm tip toeing out of The Girl's room, The Boy comes barreling towards me, screaming, "Mommy!  This part is TOO sing-y!"

Comments

[midlife mommy]

I think your title captures it all very nicely. Very cute.

[Sassy]

Too cute. I find that scene creepy too.