Monster House

Today I took Joshua to the cinema for the first time. At the Empire cinemas they run an early morning kids cartoon showing which only costs £1. We was hoping to watch Space Chimps but since it was fully booked we ended up watching Monster House (well about a 1/3rd of it). Joshua was excellent, he settled down on my lap with a bottle of milk and sat there watching the film for about 30 minutes with his thumb in his mouth. It was real nice to just have some Dad and Son time together whilst Tina went off to do some shopping. After about 30 mins or so Joshua started to get restless and so we decided to call it a day and headed off to the gym.

Joshua has also now discovered his toy box in his bedroom and realised the lid opens and inside is yet more undiscovered toys. So whats the first thing the little man wanted to do? Yes you guessed, climb inside...................

Also tonight something weird happened. For the first time ever I saw the look of fear on Joshua's face. He has never reacted in a frightened way until now. Basically what happened was we took him up to bed and I always read him a couple of stories in his cot. Well the 2nd story book I read was his 3D pop up dinosaur book which he usually loves (so do I!). When we got to the last page there is a big pop up T-Rex and Joshua was really frightened by the dinosaur and crept over to cuddle his mummy. I even tried joking around with the pop up dinosaur and tickling his chin etc, but Joshua was still frightened of it. Have I scarred the child for life by making him watch "Monster House" at the cinema????