Pass the Popcorn

The kids went to their first full-length movie in a theater today. They've seen movies at home, of course, as well as shorts in museums, but today was their first real movie. And the movie-obsessed member of our family took them--Gommie! To Winnie the Pooh. I think they were mesmerized by all of it--the theater itself with posters of Harry Potter, the previews, even the ads for going to the movies in the theater (though, the blowing up of the tv in one ad led Bud to say, "I didn't think this was going to be violent!"), and of course the snacks--popcorn ("One piece at a time," I cautiously exhorted on their way out the door), M&Ms, Skittles. Oh, yeah, and the film. With the "Backson" monster and Tigger dressing up and the friends using letters to crawl out of a hole and Pooh falling in honey and dreaming he was on an island . . . at least as I understand it from their retelling!