Tonight was the night that we decided to take the family on our date night to the theater to watch "How to Train Your Dragon" in 3D. What a great decision!!! The kids had a blast watching it - all THREE of them - and Navia loved how "cuddly" the dragon Toothless was (one shown in picture) It was also nice to watch a movie together without wanting to get out of there because the movie was bad - nope - GREAT movie!
In the middle of the movie Kaleb leaned over to me and said in an excited whisper, "Mom, I thought this was a great movie but it just keeps getting better and better" and he turned back, glued to the screen.
I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't watched it yet, but the really cool thing is that today we bought the book by the same title, which is the first in the series - and we didn't buy it for Emma. Nope! This book is for Kaleb and he can't wait to start reading it tomorrow to see what is the same and what is different from the movie! And . . . this isn't a "child's" book - it is 224 pages long with 19 chapters!!! YAY!!! I think we just might have found a series that Kaleb will enjoy, but we'll see. He actually was tested last month on his reading capabilities and it looks like he's reading at an end of Grade Three level!
So, we'll see if we're purchasing number 2 in this series sometime soon - I sure hope so because it's great to see the kids reading like this - kinda reminds me of how I was when I was younger.
"A Note from Hiccup -
There were dragons when I was a boy.
There were great, grim, sky dragons that nested on the cliff tops like gigantic scary bird. Little, brown, scuttly dragons that hunted down the mice and rates in well-organized packs. Preposterously huge Sea Dragons that were twenty times as big as the Big Blue Whale and who killed for the fun of it.
You will have to take my word for it, for the dragons are disappearing so fast they may soon become extinct.
Nobody knows what is happening. They are crawling back into the sea from whence they came, leaving not a bone, not a fang, in the earth for the men of the future to remember them by.
So, in order that these amazing creatures should not be forgotten, I will tell this true story from my childhood.
I was not the sort of boy who could train a dragon with the mere lifting of an eyebrow. I was not a natural at the Heroism business. I had to work at it. This is the story of becoming a Hero the Hard Way.
- Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third" (excerpt from beginning of book)
