Movie Night

A few months ago, we decided to introduce a "family movie night" into our routine.  The girls were finally old enough to enjoy sitting through a movie without having every scene explained to them as we watch, and we love movies, so figured this was a fun family tradition to start.    Dinner is eaten early, and in the lounge - something that is completely out of bounds any other night of the week.  The girls jump up and down with excitement as I spread a plastic tablecloth on the floor and lug Luke's highchair into the lounge.  

Just as exciting is a fun dinner menu.  We have had fish n'chips, home made burgers and tonight was homemade pizza, which the girls had great fun making (and eating).  This is the only night of the week that mum shares her sneaky top cupboard stash of chocolate and chips after dinner.  I am very popular as I sit surrounded by my girls diving for the chip packet as fast as they can scoff them back!  

Not to be forgotten in this memorable new tradition is Luke.  Sometimes he goes to bed halfway through the movie, but tonight we started early enough to leave him up all the way through.  He loves movie night just as much as we all do, and tonight was no exception - we were watching "Hop" (recorded over the Easter weekend) and he gleefully pointed out every "w'bbit" (rabbit) and "bok-bok" (chicken) he saw.  Of course there were plenty of "we-ew-we-ews" (police car noises) in the movie too , although Luke is the only one who saw them...

This Friday movie night is becoming quite an event in our family, one of the few that we ALL really look forward to at the end of a busy Friday.  We snuggle up in our cozy lounge as a family, giggle together and enjoy being entertained by a great tale.  We have watched Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, The Chipmunks (1 &2), Madagascar (all 3), Brother Bear, Stuart Little, The Wizard of Oz, The Smurfs, Rio, Tangled, and countless others already together.  I can't wait to see many more family movies together as we settle into these colder months now.   

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