Movie Night

 We thought it would be fun to have a movie night with Lydia. In the past she has really enjoyed this.

Movie night attempt #1:

Lydia decided to PARTY during nap time (seriously no clue what was up with that!). Needless to say she was very tired that evening. We debated about doing movie night but we had popcorn and picked out a movie and decided to just do movie night early.

The microwave was giving us fits and not popping the popcorn. So we decided to start the movie and let the microwave do it's job without an audience.

The movie starts.

Lydia falls asleep in minutes.

The microwave has a small fire. James burns himself on the microwave.

Lydia continues sleeping.

James and I eventually look over at each other and ask "why are we watching cartoons on the floor, smelling this horrendous smell, and the child is sound asleep?"

Lydia is in bed and sound asleep by 7pm.

Movie Night Attempt #2

Not to be discouraged we decide once again to do movie night the next weekend. Pick the night. Pick the movie. Get snacks.

And then Lydia is running a fever and sick.

We should have just surrendered but we were having a hard time keeping Lydia from running around the house (and thus making the fever go even higher!) so we decided movie night was the perfect distraction from fevers, snotty noses, and crabby toddlers.

Five minutes into the movie:
Lydia and I are both sound asleep (hard to sleep at night when a little person is holding a big grudge against mom because she feels yucky - defiantly mom's fault that somebody can not keep her hands and toys out of her mouth!). James takes a picture and escapes the fevers, snotty noses, and crabby toddlers!

Moral of the story - I am not planning any more movie nights for awhile...