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Jan. 26th, 2007 10:20 pmMy dad got two DVDs for Simon and Luke for Christmas--"Shark Tale" and "Madagascar". He also gave us a portable DVD player, thoughtfully just before the seven-hour drive up to my mom's place. We had some problems setting it up; there was no place to easily attach it so that both kids could see it, so it was precariously balance between the front seats, the earphones didn't work properly, and it took Nicole (I was driving) a while to find all the volume controls so they could use the external speakers. They watched "Madagascar", which we'd previously seen in theatres, and it kept them quiescent for a while.
They tried watching "Shark Tale" one afternoon at my mom's, but they lost interest partway through. None of us had seen that before, and Nicole and I still haven't, so maybe we should try to sit down with it as a family movie one of these days.
The portable DVD player has been nice, since if the boys disagree on what they want to watch we can put one on the couch and give the other one the portable. For the last Cult of Pain meeting, we sent the boys up to watch a movie in Simon's bedroom, which kept them out of our hair.
"Madagascar" is their current favourite movie. Well, it's indisputably Luke's, and Simon is willing to tolerate it, I think, in order to watch the "Penguin Christmas Caper" short. I think they've watched it four or five times this week. It's been a while since something has caught their fancy quite that much. Quite frankly I wasn't as keen on the movie myself, but I do love the Penguin short.
Luke discovered that I could do a good voice for "Skipper" the penguin, so now he keeps pestering me to play Penguins. I'm Skipper, Nicole is Kowalski, Luke is Rico, and Simon is Private. Though sometimes we switch around if we're bored; I do the best Skipper voice, but sometimes I get tired of being pestered. And sometimes it's easier to get them to do something if you ask them in penguin character. But it can be wearing.
Also, I seem to get "I Like To Move It Move It" stuck in my head an awful lot these days.
They tried watching "Shark Tale" one afternoon at my mom's, but they lost interest partway through. None of us had seen that before, and Nicole and I still haven't, so maybe we should try to sit down with it as a family movie one of these days.
The portable DVD player has been nice, since if the boys disagree on what they want to watch we can put one on the couch and give the other one the portable. For the last Cult of Pain meeting, we sent the boys up to watch a movie in Simon's bedroom, which kept them out of our hair.
"Madagascar" is their current favourite movie. Well, it's indisputably Luke's, and Simon is willing to tolerate it, I think, in order to watch the "Penguin Christmas Caper" short. I think they've watched it four or five times this week. It's been a while since something has caught their fancy quite that much. Quite frankly I wasn't as keen on the movie myself, but I do love the Penguin short.
Luke discovered that I could do a good voice for "Skipper" the penguin, so now he keeps pestering me to play Penguins. I'm Skipper, Nicole is Kowalski, Luke is Rico, and Simon is Private. Though sometimes we switch around if we're bored; I do the best Skipper voice, but sometimes I get tired of being pestered. And sometimes it's easier to get them to do something if you ask them in penguin character. But it can be wearing.
Also, I seem to get "I Like To Move It Move It" stuck in my head an awful lot these days.
