Well, the thing with The Nephew is that we get him like once every six weeks for about 24 hours. So we kind of spoil him and play with him and do whatever he wants. By Day Three of him being snowed in here, we were like, "Buddy, we just need a half hour to check our emails. Can you play by yourself for just a little bit?"
But honestly, it was nice to see so much of him and it was kind of cute how willing he was to stick around. Most kids if you had told them they were stuck someplace not their home, would have been crying that they wanted their mom. He was totally cool and in fact stole his dad's phone today to call us and check in - I guess two days is now suddenly to long to go without talking to us. lol
He is seriously an awesome kid. He is like a little fanboy, it is so cute.
You know, How To Train Your Dragon is good enough that we are going to watch it again without The Nephew here (he really does talk during movies a lot because he gets so overexcited) and we actually want to like watch the movie - so yes, it was good.
Now I don't know how your boy feels about animated movies at his age though - some kids at that age are like, "Mom, I'm not a baby. I don't watch cartoons." but if he doesn't mind animated films, I actually think you would both like it. It really is about animal rights, I feel. And about parental relationships and listeining to your children. Plus, did I mention Craig Ferguson? Very funny.
The Boy does still enjoy the odd animated feature, tho I'm not sure if it's only ones he's seen before, (he can re-watch a movie till the dvd wears out I swear to all the gods). I know he liked the How To Train Your Dragon books back in elementary? school.
Sounds like someone is doing a good job raising The Nephew if he was still fun to be with by day three. At least you weren't stuck with that cliche whiney, crying kid.
If The Boy read the books as a kid, then I would say you should def rent How to Train Your Dragon.
The Nephew is neither whiny nor crying. He is however very, very stubborn. And he has a listening problem...in that he doesn't listen. Like we were doing a puzzle and he decided he was done and started taking it apart. I said that I was still doing it and he started throwing a fit. He didn't want to do the puzzle anymore - how dare I keep doing it without him! lol I just let him throw his fit and kept doing the puzzle and eventually he rejoined me.
But honestly, I prefer that to like crying fits. Had one of those screaming tantrum kids at the daycare I worked at in high school - kills the eardrums. ;)
But honestly, it was nice to see so much of him and it was kind of cute how willing he was to stick around. Most kids if you had told them they were stuck someplace not their home, would have been crying that they wanted their mom. He was totally cool and in fact stole his dad's phone today to call us and check in - I guess two days is now suddenly to long to go without talking to us. lol
He is seriously an awesome kid. He is like a little fanboy, it is so cute.
You know, How To Train Your Dragon is good enough that we are going to watch it again without The Nephew here (he really does talk during movies a lot because he gets so overexcited) and we actually want to like watch the movie - so yes, it was good.
Now I don't know how your boy feels about animated movies at his age though - some kids at that age are like, "Mom, I'm not a baby. I don't watch cartoons." but if he doesn't mind animated films, I actually think you would both like it. It really is about animal rights, I feel. And about parental relationships and listeining to your children. Plus, did I mention Craig Ferguson? Very funny.
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Sounds like someone is doing a good job raising The Nephew if he was still fun to be with by day three. At least you weren't stuck with that cliche whiney, crying kid.
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The Nephew is neither whiny nor crying. He is however very, very stubborn. And he has a listening problem...in that he doesn't listen. Like we were doing a puzzle and he decided he was done and started taking it apart. I said that I was still doing it and he started throwing a fit. He didn't want to do the puzzle anymore - how dare I keep doing it without him! lol I just let him throw his fit and kept doing the puzzle and eventually he rejoined me.
But honestly, I prefer that to like crying fits. Had one of those screaming tantrum kids at the daycare I worked at in high school - kills the eardrums. ;)
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