Mommies Movies

Boy what a hectic day today is!! Lyn , my neighbour Mai and I tried out our first Mommies and movies out at the Ridge Theatre. They had free Bopomo photo session and apparently free gymboree class, which we really couldn't figure out where or if it actually happenned. The movie they were playing was Happy Feet, which according to my brother is really cool so I was all so excited about it. Only problem is that Wednesday is not my 'day off'...I have both kids with me...but despite of Shun's suggestion to get Kairo in daycare today, I insisted that Kairo would have a lot of fun and I really want to take him there, I mean Indie can't enjoy the movie..and Kairo has never been to a theatre before and he likes penguins..

But I guess I didn't prepare enough, ...the place was sooo packed with kids and strollers and Kairo didn't seem to want to cooperate. Lyn and Mai helped out a lot in watching Kairo (thank you girls!!) but at the end, I just had to cut it short...(actually, it was only after Lyn took off that Kairo started saying 'Take care mama, I'm going with Auntie Lyn okay"...so really THANKS Lyn!!:) ) I kept on telling myself that there are other Moms that come with both their kids...I don't know if they come with their moms or partners or nannies too but I've seen few Moms having both their kids with them, so if they can do it, I should be able to do it too right? But at the end, I just got too nervous. Before we left, and I've told Kairo that we're leaving , he said okay and took off...I was panicking looking for him in the dark, but he apparently went outside the theatre , grab a bottle of water (I don't know whose) and came back inside the theatre...gosh..and then he told me that he got the water...anyways, since we had to park our strollers wayy in front , I had to drag him to go there too and then went all the way back to leave..and at this point..he said bye bye to pretty much everybody within the last 10 rows...I guess I was lucky that he didn't actually want to chat longer with each one of them.

The lesson learned today is to prepare healthy snacks for him, instead of letting him munching on the popcorn, ditch the humongous stroller, and feed Indira before hand (well this one really depends on the time of the show). I guess this is one of the downsides of having the kids so close together, especially that I'm doing it bymyself. However, I think the upsides of it definetely worth all this headache. As I was driving home, Indie started to get cranky and started to whale...but then big brother started playing with his straw while saying his own version of "Abra-kadabra" and that made her laugh...and then he repeated it and then she laughed again...they did it for maybe 1 minute or two and it was priceless for me. Every morning, when they first see each other again after they wake up, they both had this plastered wide smile on their faces and Kairo would let Indie touches his face and he would giggle about it. I guess I better start video taping...:)