Movie Magic

We first exposed Rachel to cinema when she became 2. Her first movie was Mr Bean Holiday and though she did not laugh at all the funny scenes, she amazed us by staying awake for the entire movie.

Fast forward 3 months and many movies later, she now enjoys catching movies; a past- time that both her parents loved. So far she had watched: The Simpsons Movie, 811, Secret, Ratatouille (TWICE!) and the latest was Evan Almighty.

She even watched the New York Metropolitan Opera high definition screening of The Magic Flute with us.

The best part is that she watches all these movies - FREE since she is way below the 90cm regulation even in her thick- soled Dora the Explorer shoes. At the screenings, she loves to help herself to the pop corns and has since indicated to us that she wants to watch MORE movies - especially cartoons. Already she owns more than 60 vcds and dvds - all original cartoons since we are quite against piracy and enjoys "acting out" some scenes in them.

Her favourite is the rated 5 star "Rat can cook "cartoon which I love too. It also spark off a Ratatouille craze! She now owns a Ratatouille sticker book, a read aloud story book and a water bottle that she had decided to drink chocolate milk with. Each morning she reminds me to BUY Ratatouille T- shirt, (she owns 4 simpson cartoon t shirt now) and Ratatouille helium balloon which are currently not available in the retail scene yet. Indeed both of us are eagerly on a watch out for these much coveted items. Ha

I am looking forward to attending a classical concert as a family once she is 6. In the mean time, she loves to watch the violin and piano concert dvds that daddy buys or borrows from the Esplanade library. I very much would like to bring her to this years SSO's Baby's Prom - a classical concert for children under 6.

If not for the steep pricing of Swan Lake on Ice, I would have brought Rachel to see the graceful professional ice-skating to the beautiful music of Tchaikovsky.