A Day of Firsts

All of the baby books have a listing for traditional firsts. First roll, first steps, first word, etc. Honestly I struggled at filling some of those in, particularly in the words department.

Today we had some firsts that I thought would be fun to note --

1) Colin attended his first big screen movie. A local cinema shows movies in the summer for free to kids on certain mornings, so we took advantage of this free offer. Yes, it was a Veggie Tales, and yes, we have seen it at home a dozen or more times. But it was Jonah on the big screen, and Colin sat in my lap for 1 1/2 hours and loved every second. He even narrated for me when the big fish swallows Jonah.

2) After the movie, we joined our friends at McDonald's and I got him his first happy meal and he got to play in the playland with his friends. The hamburger was not a hit (he didn't even want it to touch his apple dippers, so he dumped it on the tray. Not sure I blame him...) The play area was a hit, once he had some help from his older pals (Thanks, Mr. C!)

3) And our last first of the day: Colin was drawn as the grand prize winner for a drawing we entered when he got his haircut over the weekend. He won 8 free haircuts and a whole gift basket of fabulous goodies (including various Redken hair products). So this was his first prize winning entry. He may not be overly excited about it, but the haircut prize is AWESOME! This place has an airplane that he sits in while he plays with a box of trucks while watching a movie. This is the ONLY way to cut a squirmy 2 year old's hair, I am convinced, and is worth every penny.