Baylor's First Trip to the Movies!

At just over a month shy of three, it was finally time for Baylor's first trip to the movies!  It really couldn't have worked out more perfectly as Winnie the Pooh opened just a weekend ago.  I thought it looked perfect for a first-timer, and reviews online agreed, so we left Mollie with my parents and sister and headed off to the theater.

Though he was a bit bummed to leave Oma's, he got pretty excited for the whole trip once we got there.

Seriously, he ran the whole way in!

After buying tickets, we got a few treats at the concession stand.  They had a kiddie combo that included popcorn, teddy grahams, and a drink - which, for a dollar extra, you could get in a commemorative Smurfs cup.  So we did.  He had a choice between a generic male Smurf, Papa Smurf, or Smurfette.  Guess which one he chose!

We gave our tickets to the ticket taker and then had Baylor pose in front of the movie poster.  He looked so tiny!

Then we let him choose the seats.  We climbed all the way to the top, then he plopped himself in the first seat he could find.  It was all the way to the left, but it was his trip so that's where we stayed.

On our way up, however, I realized we forgot to grab a booster seat, so Bryson hustled back down to get one.

Much better!  And, as you can tell, Baylor chose the Smurfette cup.  Funny kid!

He wasn't too sure about the popcorn.

But, man, he liked that new cup!  And all it had in it was water!

Bryson tried to get him to eat some popcorn ...

... and when Baylor refused (several times) Bryson ate a little himself.  (I did too, don't worry.)

Baylor was cool with the teddy grahams, however, and munched on those during the previews.  While he was engrossed in the grahams and the trailers, Bryson slipped a little piece of popcorn into Baylor's mouth, and from there on out the little guy was copacetic with popcorn.  All right, my little man!

He did really well during the movie; he talked a little bit, asking what was going on or what was going to happen next, but overall he stayed relatively quiet.  And it was a great movie for a first timer; it was only 69 minutes long, had very little in it that could be considered scary, had an easy-to-follow plot, and had cute characters.  Even though the duration was pretty short for movie standards, Baylor had a little trouble sitting still for the last ten or fifteen minutes, but other than that he did great.

On our way out, he remembered us saying he could have some M&Ms out of the gumball machine, so we stopped to grab some.

He even helped catch them in his little cup!

Ahhhh, the sweet deliciousness of peanut M&Ms!

Oh yeah!

It was a great first time experience and I so look forward to sharing many more movie-going trips with the little man in the future!

I love how he eats M&Ms like we're going to take them away from him at any moment.

Seriously, they were gone before we even started the car!

Great time, great fun, and really nice to be able to spend some time focusing on Baylor.  In a year or so, hopefully there will be a great movie we can take Mollie to and spend some time on just her.  Until then, we have a new little movie buddy!  Ah woo hoo!