Video Share

I came across this segment today when I turned the tv on to watch General Hospital and thought it was interesting. Since Ethan was born premature I thought I would share the link to the video. This was actually aired in Sept 2010 it was just a rebroadcast that I saw today.


http://www.thedoctorstv.com/videolib/init/2053

Day out with mom

Ethan and I went to the movies today. I took him to see the new Winnie the Pooh movie. I got him a small popcorn (which by the way they give free refills on popcorn) and a small drink (I brought my own drink). Sadly Mommy does not know how to tell time. I thought the movie started at 11:05 so I got us there about 10:45 and got our snack. Then I saw on the ticket stub it said 11:50 and first thought "Crap they gave me the wrong showing" and then learned that I just can't read. So Ethan and I had an hour to kill. We sat on a bench eating popcorn and watching this mother/teacher try to control some very rambunctious kids. Ethan kept saying "Let's just go watch the movie" and I kept saying "I would love to do that buddy but unfortunately mommy is not very smart and can't tell time so we have to wait a while" and he responded with "It's OK that happens, don't get upset. We'll just go watch the movie." Needless to say it was a long hour of explaining why we can't just go watch the movie. Although he pottied 2 times before we went into the auditorium and again 5 mins after we got our seat. That was interesting. I left our popcorn, drinks, and set Moose (yes Moose had to come too) on top of my seat as a way to save our spot. I was hoping someone would get that a very tattered stuffed animal wasn't just left there on accident. Then he pottied again right before the previews. When we got back I reminded him that we were not going to go to the potty every 20 minutes that mommy did not spend $14.25 on tickets to spend a good majority of the time in the bathroom. He made it 45 minutes into the movie  before needing to go and that was the only time during the movie he had to potty so I'm pretty impressed with that. I did have to repeatedly remind him to stop rocking his chair that it was vibrating the whole row and there were other people sitting in our row. Then I had to remind him to stop kicking the railing in front of us b/c it was loud and distracting. Other than that he was pretty good. He loved the movie. Every time something happened he would shout out "That silly old bear!" Or "What is he doing! He's being silly!" Good thing he was not the only 3 yr old in the room LOL. It was mostly 5 and under in the theater and there were not very many people so hopefully he wasn't too distracting. When the credits rolled he started crying and screaming how he wanted to watch the movie. I tried to explain that it was just over but he thought he was being punished and kept telling me how he was being good and listening. I told him we could watch the credits and that made him happy. Unfortunately we were the only ones watching the credits. He was just so sad that the movie was over. I told him that I will try to bring him to see it again another day when we can afford it. So now he is all excited that we are going to go back and see it again. After that it was hit the potty and then we walked the mall. I took him into the Disney store and let him pick out a stuffed Pooh Bear for being so good. Then I got him a fruit smoothie and we got in the car to head to my OB appt (See the other blog for info).

I will be taking him to see some other movies this year. The Lion King is coming back to theaters in 3D in Sept and I think he will love that, Alvin and the Chipmunks have a movie coming out in Dec and he might like that too. There is a muppets movie coming out I think in Aug that he will probably like. He seems to like being able to go to the movies. Hopefully it's something we will be able to do with him often enough.

Article

I was perusing aol news and came across this article. It is about the effects of prematurity affecting a child through adulthood. I found it interesting and thought I would post a link to it.


http://www.parentdish.com/2011/06/30/premature-birth/?icid=maing-grid7|netscape|dl10|sec3_lnk2|74840