Monday, December 04, 2006

Happy Feet

A few weeks ago Em, Ally, my mom, My friend Jen and her daughters Tessa and Bella, (four and 10 mo.), and myself went to the movie happy feet. It was a very interesting movie day, my mom finds it hilarious and says I should share it, however, I'm just getting around to laughing.
We get to the movies at 3:30 and are running a little late so we get the girls booster seats and get them situated towards the bottom of the theater. They get all settled so we hand them their popcorn and begin to watch the movie. Soon, we run out of popcorn with a lot of people eating it so I get a refill, but by the time I get back, no one is hungry. So the full bag gets discarded on the floor. Then Emily and Tessa have to go potty, so they get down with seats banging to the ground and then knock over the full popcorn so they are loudly crunching popcorn as they are trying to get through the maze of people. I warn my mom before I go, (who is trying to get Ally to sleep) that she needs to watch where she puts the soda because last week I was doing the same thing and Ally kicked my full soda onto the ground when she didn't want to lie down in my arms. She says ok and the girls and I exit to the bathroom. When I come back, sure enough, Ally had knocked over the soda with her feet when my mom tried to lie her in her arms. So now soda and popcorn are all over the floor and people are giving us "the look". The chaos over?...Oh No...the worst hasn't even happened.
Ally wakes up towards the last 20 mins. of the movie and is fussy wiggly so I pick her up and take her to the back to walk her. She is facing me at this point and the next thing I know, I look down just in time to see her throw up all over me...three times!! I'm in the back COVERED and everyone else is in the front, so what do I do? I start yelling, "MOM! MOM! JENNI!" By then everyone is staring at me from the back 5 rows. And it smell BAD! She can't hear me so I put ally on the floor in the corner and run to them and say, "mom, we have to go now, get the girls." She then tries to get Emily out of her chair and when she figures out that we are leaving starts yelling, "I don't want to go I want to watch the movie" and loudly crying. Ally is so covered I have to strip her down and throw away her clothes. We exited the theater through the back and I realize my mom didn't grab my new sweatshirt. So back she goes looking for it and she was so embarrassed but laughing too. She couldn't find it and was feeling around on the wet popcorned floor and finally found it in my chair, but it was stuck. So there she is pulling and laughing with all her might. Then we get to leave and I'm less than thrilled because Ally and I are covered and smell bad. But my mom is in the car laughing and I finally say, as politely as I can, "mom, I'm really not finding any of this funny right now" It didn't even phase her though!
Em and I did make it back on Friday to watch the movie with the last 7 mins. we missed, however, we found a sitter for Allyson! And let me just say, it didn't go all that smooth either, they had theater malfunctions and we had to switch theaters after that movie already started! I do recommend it though, it's cute!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, and I'm still laughing. And may I say that BOTH times when the girls had to get out of their chairs, one of their plastic booster seats hit the floor with a loud bang! I'm surprised there wasn't cheering and clapping when we left the theater! I thought about going back to tip the person who had to clean up that mess but frankly, I was too embarrassed to admit it was us! LOL

Anonymous said...

Oh my gosh! That is soo funny! Some days just don't go as planned! I wish I could have been there! Too bad you could not have gotten a picture of all that! It would have been priceless! Leslie Braun

Anonymous said...

I apologize for not being more supportive, but I have just picked myself up off the floor where I was rolling and laughing! That is HILARIOUS! It is a good thing I wasn't there, because between me and Jenni we probably would have been laughing to loud that you would have been doubly annoyed! That was the best story I've heard in a long time!

Anonymous said...

Sorry Jamie... I had to wait 24 hours to post a comment so that I could stop laughing so hard. Oh the things to look forward to! I will see you soon. (I don't think we should hit any mpvies while I'm in town)

Tricia said...

Oh my goodness... Mom told me I had to come and read the new "blog" story... TOO FUNNY! I hate that frazzled feeling where you just can't figure out what to do without annoying everyone around you. Glad you got to go back and see the movie again! Hope Allyson is feeling better!

Brenda Walker said...

Oh, the Joys of what I have to look forward to.