Will She Watch The New Movie?
Eliana and I made a trip to Wally-World as soon as I left work and picked her up this afternoon. There were a couple of food items we needed for dinner tonight but there was another reason for the shopping spree. An ulterior motive, as it were. I intended to buy the animated movie called Madagascar which neither Carmi nor I have seen previously. As far as I know, Eliana has not seen it either.Desparate times call for desparate measures. It's time for an intervention because the Empress is overdosing on 'Cinderella'.
Will she watch the new movie? Initial indicators don't look so good. Trolling the DVD aisle, she begged for everything from the Princesses to Dora the Explorer before I spotted my prize and picked it up.
Ohhhhh...look Eliana...
What is it?
It's a movie called 'Madagascar' and I want to buy it for you.
Ohhhhhhhhhh, but dad...I don't want THAT one!
I let her hold it as we left the Electronics section and headed for check-out. She stared at the movie expressionless all the way to the front of the store and continually stated her case:
I don't WANT this one and It doesn't look pretty and YOU'RE not my friend.
I bought it anyway and we WILL watch it. Sometimes a parent has to practice tough love.
Comments
Oh tooo funny! Don’t think this will be the last time she does this either! Even after all these years with our son, we continue to make the ultimate parental blunders of assuming he will just “love” something and truth be told it’s just not even in his orbit! Let us all know how she likes the movie! Our son saw it and said it was cute! : )
I bought ‘Lion King’ for her...oh...at least 6 months ago. We watched it the night I brought it home and it hasn’t been opened since.
I’ll be sure to give everyone her review. 
Thank you for enlightening those of us who are waiting for the battles that lie ahead. There are certain videos and cartoons that I hope to never watch...we’ll see how that goes. Your family really is beautiful. I love your daughters smile and beautiful hair. No wonder she likes princesses, she fits right in!
Frankly, I didn’t like the movie at all. We ordered it PPV to see if we would like it enough to actually buy. Pretty much every one of couldn’t stand it… Tashie is a huge fan of the digital movies, it’s all she watches when it comes to movie time (too bad because she is missing out on the classics like Cinderella and Snow White… but they are animated and she just doesn’t like those type of movies)… even Tashie couldn’t sit through Madagascar for more than 30 minutes. Finally we all just turned it off and popped in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory… again… for the 40th time that day. 
Cute story, but we need a follow-up! What is Eliana’s movie review for Madagascar?
Off topic - but you have a beautiful family. I tried to go to the frappr site but it wouldn’t load. I will be back though.