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Gabe loves dinosaurs.
Loves dinosaurs, as in knows all the names of all the different dinosaurs and talks about them all the time and tells me how he wants to visit them and asks for stories about them and we often ride the "dinosaur train" through the "time tunnel" to meet different dinosaurs and have picnics. These picnics often include Frosty the Snowman, because didn't you know? Frosty also loves dinosaurs. According to Gabe, I mean.
Anyway, yesterday I'm flipping through channels and come across Jurassic Park (the movie) and said to Gabe, "Oh look! Dinosaurs!" Are you cringing yet? I didn't completely remember the movie, but it started off great with beautiful big dinosaurs off in the distance and then a triceratops up close (which he loved) and then... the jeep breaks down in the movie right in front of the Tyrannosaurus Rex pen and... yeah. Do you remember this part? This is the part where the Tyrannosaurus EATS A GOAT and FLINGS BODY PARTS from the goat over the fence, and then busts out of the fence and starts trying to EAT THE HUMANS and then ACTUALLY EATS A MAN and there are screaming kids and screaming adults and... oh geez. This may have been a bad decision.
I'm not totally paying attention to the movie at this point because super stellar parenting going on here, and Gabe starts saying, "Mommy? I don't want to watch the scary movie, Mommy. Please no scary movie Mommy." I change the channel quickly and say, "Oh, it's just a movie, just pretend, don't worry." and leave it at that.
So today, we meet up with friends and decide to go to the pet store nearby to check out the turtles and cats and birds and bunnies and all that. I'm excitedly telling Gabe about how we're going to see some animals, and doesn't that sound great, and we're going to have so much fun, and then he says, in a small small sad voice from the backseat, "I don't want to go see the animals, Mommy. When the animals come, the T Rex comes. No animals, please."
Mmm hmm. Mother of the year, right here. Damage control, please.
Friday, November 06, 2009
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Well yeah jurassic park was not a good idea!
grab a disney dino movie and play that for him. play some barney, cringe i know but he is a dinosaur
land before time? ice age? stuff like that just to take his mind off of it. he needs some cute and cuddly type dinosaurs.
just overwrite the memory as quickly as possible with lots of cute and cuddly dinosaurs.
I tivoed about 10 minutes of Jurassic Park -- the nice part in the beginning after the helicopter. That's all that my son has watched of the movie to date because he also saw the part with the goat. Or rather, ran screaming from it.
I guess what I'm saying is, hilariously, you're not alone.
No, not alone. Just yesterday Daisy watched JAWS because she loves sharks. Rob eventually paid attention to what was going on and skipped through some of the worst scenes WHERE BODIES ARE RIPPED APART much to her dismay!
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