Life with Mark is never dull. A few weeks ago Bryce and I were watching the first Harry Potter movie (we’ve been reading the books together) when Mark got up from his nap. He saw the screen and immediately sat down on the couch to watch the rest of it with us. We keep our DVDs at the bottom of our TV stand and the first movies he pulls out are all Harry Potter. Seriously, he’ll hold them up for us to see and point at either the TV or remote. Sometimes he’ll even turn the TV on for us and sign ‘please’. It’s hilarious. His favorite scenes are always Quidditch. He puts his arms in the air and cheers “Go, go go!” whenever he sees them flying around. Then he claps when they show the crowd clapping. It’s so cute. We were driving to NC and had A Bug’s Life on for him to watch. He wasn’t super involved and was even fussing some so I switched it to
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I kid you not, he was practically silent for the entire movie, then took a nap, and watched the 2nd one. He couldn’t have been happier. See? And, then, the second one is just cute. “Give me the camera, Mom.”
As a disclaimer, we aren’t letting him watch all the Harry Potters since they get scarier in the later books and he is only 18 months old. And, he won’t sit through the whole movie, but gets up and plays with his toys and then checks back in every once in a while.
P.S. I wrote this post on Sunday. On Monday he was watching a little bit of the first movie before bed and it came to the scene where Oliver Wood is showing Harry the Quidditch balls. When Wood gave Harry the snitch, Mark started pointing at the screen and whining followed by his motion for ‘I want’ and ‘please’. Yes, he wanted the ball from the movie. Obviously that wasn’t going to happen, but we let him hold a Lindor truffle since they are packaged in a bright and shiny foil. It worked well, but took a fair amount of coaxing to get him to let go of it when it was time to go to bed.
