Wall-E
Just got back from taking Ethan to see Wall-E. It was definitely worth the watch-- one of those brilliant pixar movies that are appropriate for kids without being boring for adults. Also, ADORABLE.
Certainly was working on two levels, as well. Ethan saw cute robots and a fun story and he thought the saddest thing of the entire movie was the fact that "Wall-E's friends were just all dead, and I don't like his new ones." Watching it as an adult, there was a bit of an environmental message and an "OH SHIT, WE'RE ALL FAT AND LAZY IN THE FUTURE AND ROBOTS RULE US ALL" darkness to it, which was nice. Pixar did a nice job of emoting-- there's very little spoken word at all until about, oh, maybe halfway through the movie, and even then there's not an awful lot of it-- but I didn't miss the dialogue at all.
it also may have shaken something loose regarding a problem I've been having with a story, so that's positive. I need to mull it over a bit more, though.
In other news, the xbox is a great motivator. Now that Ethan knows he can't play on the xbox until after he's had his daily reading lesson (and also knows that he can't just fidget his way through it, but actually needs to focus) he's chomping at the bit to do his reading lessons. There's the added benefit of him realizing that he'll be able to play cooler games with more text as soon as he can read, too. My little gamer.
What's up with you today?