August 20th, 2011

I'm going to take Camden to his first movie at a theater today. We are going to see The Smurfs at 10:50am at the Harkins on Bell Road. I'm sure there will be more to report on that later.
Camden, Kellan and I are up. We're letting Daddy sleep in. For once. I was washing bottles and Kellan started crying out in the living room. Before I could even get there, Camden was sticking the pacifier in Kellan's mouth and saying "shhhhhhh". It was so sweet. He then laid his head down by Kellan and tried to comfort him. I ran to get my camera. In the meantime I heard Kellan scream at the top of his lungs! As I ran back with my camera in tow to get a picture of this beautiful scene, I saw the scene had taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Now Camden has each finger of Kellan's right hand in his mouth and is biting them. Mind you, Camden is saying "bite." I can't yell at that, we do want him to use his words.
Camden did really well at the movies. We got there early, so we got to run around in the lobby for a while. Everyone commented on how cute we were. What do you mean they just meant Camden was cute? Anyway!
During the previews I let Camden have his run of the theater. He went up and down every row. Even the rows with people in them. People are very kid friendly, luckily, at a screening of The Smurfs. When the movie started Camden was such a good boy and climbed into my lap and drank his sippy cup. He would occasionally pop up to point out such things as cats, birds and cars on the screen. He was being a perfect gentleman. Then it happened. The usher came in as they usually do about halfway into the movie to check things out. It was a really quiet part of the movie and Camden yelled "HI!" and waved to the usher. The whole theater cracked up (comic relief). Now Camden was in rare form. He can't handle laughter compliments like I can. He started pulling the straw in and out of my pop. You know that sound that is like nails on a chalkboard. Yea, that's what it sounded like. I tried to hide the cup so he would stop, but he then proceeded to yell "PEAS!" (please) at the top of his lungs. I let him do this for a while, but when he started squirting pop on the kid next to us I decided it was time to go. We left the matchbox cars we brought somewhere in the theater. Someone appeared out of no where and helped us carry our trash to the garbage. Obviously this person was anticipating our departure. As we were walking out in the lobby, an employee grabbed us and gave us a free movie pass to try again. That was so nice, since I didn't ask for it and didn't even think Harkins would do that. Id like to think they gave us a free pass because Camden is so darn cute. Anyone want to argue with that? :)