MOVIE Follow - Up

Last Saturday we went to see Transformers. It was very hard to follow. Jack sat on my lap for a while and then sat on Pam's. He had a hard time understanding what was going on. It was too load and just to over the top.

About half way through he movie Jack wanted Popcorn and he and Pam went to get food. It was really just a reason to get up and go run around. Jack likes the arcade games in the lobby by the Concession stand. On Saturday the games were all shut down because the Token machine was broken. No Tokens...no games to play.

Pam discovered the old time Photo Booth and took a strip film of Jack and her. They were too short for the machine and it cut off part of them.

In the end the good guys won the fight and the Autobots and Humans will live on to fight another day. My best memory of the movie is the strip of photos of Jack and Mommy. These are better than any Transformer movie.

TRANSFORMERS

The new Transformers Movie, Revenge of the Fallen, is out and I promised Jack we would go this weekend. He is excited. Jack loves action movies. All those people who say there is no difference between little boys and girls are wrong. I raised four girls and not one of them ever asked me..."Daddy, are there guns in this movie?".

Jack likes guns, car chases, and "bad guys". He likes to pretend he is an action super hero in his Spider Man pajamas. Almost every night, just before bed time, Jack ask me to wrestle with him. We roll around on the bed while he makes mean faces and jumps on me. Pam says I am the Daddy Lion and I am teaching him to Hunt....ha ha ha. By the time he is ten years old I will be in traction.

Transformers hasn't gotten very good reviews. We went to UP and I liked it more than Jack. My guess is Transformers will be a bigger hit for Jack than it will be for me. I will let you know how this turns out next week.

Daddy

Today was Father's Day picnic at Jack's school. It started at 10:00 AM and when I arrived the kids were very excited. They made the Dad's wait in the hall while they calmed the kids.

Jack saw me through the window and started laughing, He waved and pointed..."there's my Dad"

We all went out on the play ground for cupcakes and drinks. Jack ran around chasing his friend Ryan. I had a cupcake and watched. It was really great to be Jack's Dad.

I work from home and many other Dad's are not so lucky. Over half the kids had no Dad present. The teacher told me Dad's can't just leave work to come to a picnic. I can and I did. Some days I wonder about my choice to become self employed and work from home. Today, I am 100% sure it's the right thing for me and Jack. In the next few years Jack will be in the Woodbury elementary school just two blocks away. I will be able to walk him school each morning and pick him up each afternoon.

It's great to be Jack's Dad.