Media Magic
The public media marketing guru's are affecting my son well and sigh me too. The new Harry Potter movie Order of the Phoenix came out in wide release today. Our house has gone Pottie in the head.
Gabriel yes is only 5 and yes he has seen the already released previous movies. Robert and I went down a slippery slope starting with the Chamber of Secrets Movie. Gabriel caught me watching it one day and saw the basilisk he thought it was a dragon and wanted to see the whole movie. So that weekend I sat down with him and watched the first one. We talked the whole time. Stuff about friendship what makes a person bad and what makes a person good. We talked about how to treat friends and what was important in life. I loved it. We eventually worked through all the movies. This of course opened up him watching Star Wars and Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. Interestingly he use to wake up normally with night terrors, now the nightmare have almost disappeared with him watching these scary movies.
Bizarre
Anyways, today Gabriel and I played a great game of Hogwarts. He asked for the broom and I took a yellow whiffle ball. We called it the snitch. I would hide it around the house and he would find it we would cheer because he won at quiddich. He would give me a soft ball and we pretend it was a bludger and have me pretend to bounce it off him as he used one of his plastic swords as a wand to defend. Then he would take a tennis ball and call it the quaffle and try to make baskets.
He then mentioned it was time for potions class. I was in the middle of making grilled cheese. Hannah was sitting on the kitchen floor listening to the radio and chewing on a plastic sword as I pulled out clear plastic cups where I put colored water, vinegar and baking soda on a tray and set it at the table for Gabriel to mix potions. He had fun we went through new ingredients about 7 times. I had to curb his enthusiasm to get Hannah's feed started.
Gabriel mentioned Herbology after I started cleaning up for lunch and removing the potion play set and I remembered we had bought flower seeds. So while Daddy was home for lunch I snuck out and set up some dirt for us to do some planting.
Currently Hannah is napping and Gabriel and I are watching the Sorcerous Stone. I think we will do a Potter Marathon. I have bought my ticket for tonight with Fandango. I am going early enough where Robert should be able to go after me. After we both see it we will decide if we take him. He has never seen this violent type of show on the big screen only on our family TV. We do have scruples sometimes.
