dugh

Yesterday I took Juliet to the movies, just the two of us. I asked her what she wanted to go see, sure she was going to pick Madagascar since she had seen Bolt already. But she wanted to see Bolt again so off we went.

We got our popcorn and drinks, our nifty 3-D glasses and settled down in the theatre full of kids and talkative parents. The lights go down and the screen illuminates with the fantastical world of Disney.

It takes a little while for her to get used to things coming off the screen and flying at her so she asks if she can sit in my lap. So she scoots herself on, gets comfy and munches on some yummy popcorn, while we watch the previews.

On comes a preview for Ice-Age 3, of course all the preview's are of the poor little squirrel that can never seem to keep a hold of the little nut of his. Well in this one he comes upon a girlie who wants the same nut. So they go through this fighting seen, going back and forth tricking and conjoling and stealing it from each other. I think nothing of it, this is what you see in movies all the time right? Juliet is watching with a popcorn kernel poised between her figures, frozen half way to her mouth with a 'really?' look on her face. Then she turns to me and in a very 'dugh' tone tells me....'they should just cut it in half.'

I tell her what a great idea that would be, while I swell with a little bit of motherly pride for she obviously is learning something right. Course it probably came from all the other adult influences in her life who drill in the concept of sharing, saying thank you and being nice to others. But its nice to think I might have something to do with teaching her the right way.

I often forget how many times we see jealousy, corruption, trickery and plain meanness in our everyday life. Even in our beloved Disney movies. It's nice to see that she has not succumbed to that and hope she wont for a while yet.