Toy Story 3

Alan decided he wanted to take Cooper and I to see Toy Story 3 in the theater.  Cooper has seen the first two Toy Story movies at home, but this was his very first movie in a theater!  And it was in 3-D even!!

Alan's a good date -- he sprung for the GIANT bucket of popcorn for the three of us to share and the REALLY BIG Diet Coke for me. 

The boys in their cool 3-D glasses -- they've come a long way since the cardboard blue/red glasses, don't you think?

Cooper did a great job in the theater.  We practiced whispering in the car on the way to the movie.  And we sat in a row with a walkway in front of us, so he could stand up and jig when he needed to.

I had heard that parts of the movie were a little scary.  Buzz, Woody, and the gang end up at a daycare where some of the daycare toys turn out to be thugs, and there's a prison-break-ish scene as Andy's toys try to escape.  Cooper didn't particularly care, I guess. Partly because I'm not sure he has enough background knowledge to be scared by the prison-like environment of the daycare.

But the one scene he has talked about since the movie is a scene at a landfill that involves, in Cooper's words, a "big booming fire."  We spent a lot of time on the drive home talking about why there was a fire at the landfill and who set the fire and whether our trash also goes to a fire.  Though nothing related to the plot of the movie and what might or might not have happened to toys.

There's also a scene where Andy has packed up his room to go to college, and his mom walks in and gets sad.  You may not be surprised to learn that I cried.  Shoulder-shaking sobs in the theater.  So we also had to talk with Coop about why Mama was so sad in the movie.

Man, I'm going to be a mess when he starts preschool this fall...