a day at the movies with the kids..

I have just gotten back from the movies with my husband and two kids. The movie of the day was Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs...quite a mouthful, so I will just call it "Cloudy". As with the previous movie, both our two little girls were with us- my eldest Ikhlas,4 and my youngest, Ihsan, 2 and a half years old. I thought I had learnt my lesson with the previous movie ( which by the way was the very cute G-Force) in which Ihsan spent most of the movie running around the aisles with me frantically whispering at her to si down. her elder sister ,Ikhlas was unusually well behaved, which I attribute to the fact that she was sitting on her Auntie Nafis' lap. Otherwise, she would usually be questioning everything that she saw in the movie until at one movie some of the audience members actually shushed her! ( she DOES have a rather clear high-pitched voice!) And so, today, at the Cloudy movie, I was naively wishing that the two sisters would behave better as it was a fully animated movie ( as opposed to partially animated in G-Force). But of course-NOT! Little Ihsan started chucking of her shoes and found the crawling space under our feet and in the gap of the rows of seats in front of us more exciting then the movie.I lived in peril of losing sight of her in the darkened theatre. Thank God she only started acting up about three quarters way through the movie. So, in between catching whatever scenes I could, I was also frantically looking out for her as well as...you guessed it- shushing my other daughter! Sigh....movies with kids are ANYTHING but the relaxing enjoyable thing it ought to be (in my dreams....maybe in another couple of years,huh?) but at least we all made it back home safe and sound and most importantly, with all shoes accounted for!