First Time Watching Movie In Theater

We’ve been afraid that William would not sit still and cannot be quiet inside a movie theater so we did not take him there until now.

We’ve been preparing him mentally of what to do in the theater: sit in your seat, do not run around, be quiet. He seems to understand all these rules.

So finally William got to see a movie in the theater: the Secret Life of Pets 2 at the Outlets of Orange, which is only 10 minutes from our house. We were late; and someone took our assigned seats so we ended up sitting near the screen but that seems ok with William. He could not sit still: he kept standing up or climbed on the rail in front of us. One time he got out of the chair and went up to the big screen to touch it. Anothe time he wanted to get out to go up the stairs but I blocked him and said No. Few times he used normal voice so I asked him to be quiet then he lowered his voice. Overall his behaviors was better than I expected. At first he did not pay much attention to the movie; he was looking around, up to the projector, then to the screen but toward the end of the movie, he seemed to enjoy the movie because I saw him laughing / smiling.

After the movie, he loved to run around and sit on the lobby floor.