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We talked endlessly about taking the Isaac to see Cars at the theaters this summer, but somehow we never followed through. Bless you, Disney Overlords, for making this movie available for us on DVD this holiday season, because goodness knows the stars would fall from the sky if Dada and Isaac didn't have the complete Pixar DVD library.
I feel bad at times about how much movie time those guys manage to get in on a weekly basis, thinking that it would probably be better if we did something, oh, active? But then I think about my psycho role-playing monkey, and how movies obviously fire up his imagination. His handle-hauler truck? It's now Mack, and his bitty Lightning McQueen goes for rides in it. Saturday we went for a family drive and Isaac asked us everytime a semi passed: "Is that Mack?" On our way home, Dada saw a distribution center that was part of an office complex and turned into it so Isaac could get a closer look at all of the "Mack"s. If he wasn't so firmly belted in, Isaac could have possibly hurled himself through the ceiling powered solely by excitement.
Really, we do watch a lot of movies, but we aim to make our movie-viewing experiences less of a sitting-on-your-tush-for-an-hour-and-a-half and more of a lifestyle. In a moment of weakness at The Mickey Store, Dada bought both Cars figurine sets. These are used to re-enact Isaac's favorite scenes as they occur throughout the movie, and subsequently throughout the following day (and the next, and the next). He memorizes the weirdest lines verbatim, and expects me to know what is to follow. His favorite is Lynda Petty's big line at the end: "Son, is Doc Hudson here today?" To hear your two-year-old address you as "Son", oh, it is a riot.
While I don't always sit and watch the movie, I do like the soundtrack, and he likes that I included the Rascal Flatts version of "Life is a Highway" on the mix CD I play in George the Green Car. We listen to this one song over and over and over and over again. How much do we listen to this song? Please allow Isaac to demonstrate.
I feel bad at times about how much movie time those guys manage to get in on a weekly basis, thinking that it would probably be better if we did something, oh, active? But then I think about my psycho role-playing monkey, and how movies obviously fire up his imagination. His handle-hauler truck? It's now Mack, and his bitty Lightning McQueen goes for rides in it. Saturday we went for a family drive and Isaac asked us everytime a semi passed: "Is that Mack?" On our way home, Dada saw a distribution center that was part of an office complex and turned into it so Isaac could get a closer look at all of the "Mack"s. If he wasn't so firmly belted in, Isaac could have possibly hurled himself through the ceiling powered solely by excitement.
Really, we do watch a lot of movies, but we aim to make our movie-viewing experiences less of a sitting-on-your-tush-for-an-hour-and-a-half and more of a lifestyle. In a moment of weakness at The Mickey Store, Dada bought both Cars figurine sets. These are used to re-enact Isaac's favorite scenes as they occur throughout the movie, and subsequently throughout the following day (and the next, and the next). He memorizes the weirdest lines verbatim, and expects me to know what is to follow. His favorite is Lynda Petty's big line at the end: "Son, is Doc Hudson here today?" To hear your two-year-old address you as "Son", oh, it is a riot.
While I don't always sit and watch the movie, I do like the soundtrack, and he likes that I included the Rascal Flatts version of "Life is a Highway" on the mix CD I play in George the Green Car. We listen to this one song over and over and over and over again. How much do we listen to this song? Please allow Isaac to demonstrate.
posted by Claire at 9:53 PM
4 Comments:
HA! We are Cars obsessed over here these days too. We usually watch it at least once every other day, if not more often. Ben's favorite lines to quote (randomly throughout the day):
"Focus. Speed."
and
"Stupid grandpa car!"
Have you seen the Matchbox versions of the cars? I stocked up for Christmas! Target and Walmart!!!
SWEET!! I'll have to check those out. The Disney ones are actually quite flimsy; Chick Hicks has already chipped a tail fin.
Does it get any cuter? Both of your boys are just as cute as can be.
HAHAHAH! He's got the chorus down pat!
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