What kind of parents take their 3 year-old to a movie?

Yup, we did it. After a bit of consternation, we decided to take Hudson to see the movie "Cars." We were originally planning to have him see it on video, but ended up deciding that taking him to a theater would make it seem more "set apart" so he'd be less likely to want to see more TV/movies at home. Can you tell he's our first child with all the thought we put into a rather simple decision?

He loved it. He jumped a few times at the loud revving of the engines, but never got scared at all. It was a pretty long movie - about 2 hours and he shifted positions a lot, so we couldn't tell if he was just a being a boy or if he was getting a little tired of it. But when the credits rolled (with some animation re-starting on the side) we asked if he wanted to leave. He said, "Let's wait until the pictures go off and don't come back on."

He's been (we've made him) a victim of the Disney marketing machine. He has a "Cars" coloring book, a "Cars" sticker book, and a few plastic "Cars" figures. So he knew the main characters names before the movie. By the way, it's a cute movie that's fun for any age (apparently down to three).

Landon is still having a lot of fun running around. He's starting to fight back when Hudson takes things with which he's playing - and he's got a pretty accurate slap! He's definitely a second-born: much more adventurous, much more stubborn, not as into precision and detail and more into fun. He is really creating his own identity more and more every day.

Kathryn and Rick are doing well. Rick sprained his ankle playing basketball this week but it doesn't seem all that bad, just pretty swollen.

Thanks for the comments and updates!

Funny Hudson quote:

"Oh no; it dropped the call!"
Said while talking to a pretend person on a pretend call on his pretend Spiderman cell phone.