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.

Lunar New Year Celebration at Main Place Mall

Saturday, a nice winter noon that felt like summer.  Lunar New Year is less than 2 weeks so the malls around us starting to celebrate; Main Place mall the is the one that celebrated earlier compares to other malls.   The stage with dance/singer performance took place near in front of Macy’s.  We came when a group of Taiwanese dancers were performing; very beautiful and colorful costumes.  William seemed to enjoy watching the dance.

There was another area for children with craft activities, face painting and the animal balloons which was at the other end of the mall.  We waited in line for so long to get the balloon; William picked the sword.  William was waited very patiently seating in his stroller without crying.   Finally when we got our balloon; I let him out of the stroller but he refused to get up.  I asked “What do you want?”

– I want home. – He replied.

Finally it’s our turn for the balloon.

I guess the time of waiting in line for a balloon is not really worth it.  He got tired of waiting; and me too.  I should have a asked him if he wanted the balloon or not.  We could just go back to the stage and watch the rest of the performances.  Why I didn’t think of that? I guess I just assumed that he wants the balloon.

Before heading home, we let him ride the elevator once because we know how much he likes it.

It’s the Year of the Dog – 2018.

 

Tim loves to selfie 🙂

Time to celebrate Valentine’s also.

Year of the Dog. Tim was born in the year of the Dog; William was born in the year of Snake.