Cloudy with a Chance of Movie Posters

As we've said on some previous posts, Ethan has been working on his potty training. Most of the credit goes to Ethan's school. Apparently, a lot of potty training the toddlers is constantly reminding them to go to the potty (since they won't tell you), and also putting them in underwear so they feel weird when they do have accidents (and they won't do that again). The downside with us at home is that we often forget to ask/tell/physically move him to go, and we don't like cleaning up the accidents.

The great news is that Ethan went this whole past week (at school and home) with NO ACCIDENTS! Woohoo! So we decided to reward Ethan (and us) with a trip to the movie theatre to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

It sounds weird, but we've actually been waiting to see this movie. This was a book that I remember reading as a kid, and one that Ethan has enjoyed "reading" over the past year. In fact, Ethan ended up brining his book to the movie with us. Overall, it was a very entertaining movie that took a fair amount of liberties with the source material, but in a good way. We had some fun finding homages to the book in some of the scenes.

But the real laughter came even before the movie began. We got to our seats, near the middle of the theater. Now, these theater seats are the kind that you have to sit in so they stay down. If nothing is in the chairs, then the seats fold up. Ethan sat between us, but wasn't tall/heavy enough to hold the seat down if he sat all the way at the back. So he had to sit toward the front of the chair to eat his popcorn and soda.

Until he got tired and wanted to lean back. The chair was waiting for him. When he leaned back, his feet flew up, and the seat folded up on him. It caught him by surprise, but he wasn't hurt (and he didn't lose any popcorn). He just looks up at us and gives us his best Keanu Reeves "woah", like he want to do it again.

On a whim, after the movie, Jill went and talked to the theater manager, told him that she was a teacher, and asked if they gave away movie posters. The manager went to the office and came back with three posters: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (since he saw Ethan had the book with him), Planet 51, and Where the Wild Things Are (another book that was a favorite of Jill's and one we read to E)!

So now this has me wondering, what other old children's books could they turn into a movie? One Fish, Two Fish? Harold and the Purple Crayone? The Giving Tree? You never know...