To Infinity and Beyond

Toy Story 3 has been a HUGE topic at our house for MONTHS now!! Jack B had never been to the theatre before and Ben and I knew that "3" would be the perfect first trip. He loves the first two so we knew he would be beyond excited for this one. And he was.... We had been talking about it for weeks.

We made the trip to Destin to "The Rave" b/c our home town theatre is the very, very, very last resort for any movie experience. We ate at our favorite resturant where Jack ordered for himself some "big ole crab claws" and informed me that he no longer needed assistance eating these. (I'm telling y'all - the kid eats an adult sized portion of fried crab claws for an appetizer and then a plate full of shrimp. He's taken seriously the idea of growing up BIG and strong:)

Because I'm one of the directors for our Vacation Bible School (which was set to start two days later) and my husband's grandmother is getting married on Saturday (a whole other post:) and I'm the director of the wedding, I had a few errands to run before the movie. You can imagine right.... So, then we headed all over Destin looking for 150 blue plates, square grid pretzels (that are not as easy to find as you would think), some Toy Story and Princess paraphanelia (this was for valid wedding preparation - i.e. bribing the flower girl and ring bearer to walk down the aisle:) and a few other odds and ends, we were ready for the movie.

We went all out and decided to watch in 3D. I did not realize that if you didn't wear the 3D glasses, the movie was blurry or I wouldn't have gone this route b/c I never thought Jack would wear his glasses. But, it turned out that he was so overstimulated by the big theatre, all the pictures, the life size version of Shrek (which we have a hate/hate relationship with) and the 3D movie that he sat completely still throughout the entire movie with his glasses on and didn't MOVE!!

I was concerned that we had tramautized him to the point that we might never get him in the theatre again, but when we left, I asked, "Jack, did you like Toy Story 3?" and he nodded in the affirmative. Then I asked, "Do you want to watch it again?" and another affirmative. Then he looked at me and said, "I wanna watch "The Upside Down Show." which is a normal request so I think we're ok:)

We had a really fun day. I'll leave you with some pictures I took with my phone during our day. What mother would leave her camera at home and not commemorate the first movie experience??? Hmmm.....

Jack at the splash pad right outside the theatre: (I don't know HOW we kept him out of this water!!)




Waiting in line by "3" to get in the theatre, but with our eyes always on that big green Shrek to make sure he doesn't get any closer:)

It's always nice to have Daddy with us to take a picture of me and Jack - always such good quality too:)

With the exception of my friend Emily (who we've already established has seen three kids just a little cuter here), isn't this the cutest kid you've ever seen in 3D glasses??

I thought so!