Monsters and holiday plans

I am too excited. It’s our Thanksgiving holiday so we don’t have school tomorrow (although I still have to work tomorrow because I have two tenure and promotion files to review), and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban just came out on DVD. We’re currently negotiating how we’ll all get to watch it—William is too young for the scary parts, we think, but then Laura pointed out that he’s been carrying around a dementor action figure from the movie for about a month now. He’s at that stage sometimes young kids get where they think monsters on tv are interesting—he’s not quite old enough for them to be scary yet. But carrying around a three-inch plastic dementor isn’t quite the same thing as seeing one on the screen. Laura’s next plan was for Chris to put Will to bed (which is a long term project involving lying down with him for a while) while she and I watch the movie tonight, and then tomorrow night Chris can watch it with her. Interesting plan.

And by the way—he only has a dementor of his own because I found the sets of the Harry Potter tiny action figures on big sale at Bi-Lo for something like $1.77 each, so bought several for Laura—and then they were fighting over them every single day. Finally I figured my peace and happiness was worth an additional $2.00, although I’m sure that I’m the world’s worst spoil-my-children parent. I can’t say otherwise that giving my two-year old a really spooky monster is high on my list.