Monsters, Monin!

The past couple of years we have had a bi-weekly (and sometimes weekly) tradition at our house and not many are aware of this tradition. It all started with Aidan and quickly grew to Gia (Delia). And I predict that in due time Liam will also fall into the regular viewing of a favorite at Uncle Tad and Aunt Monin's house. By the time Aidan has half a foot in our front doorway, he is already mid-question, "Monin can we watch Monsters, please?" Not far behind him is Gia shouting, "Monsters, Monin!" It's nearly impossible to say "no" to a bright-blue-eyed-polite-soft-spoken-little-boy and his sidekick who happens to be bright-blue-eyed-cute-as-a-button-little-girl. With no twisting of the arm, I push play on the DVD player (because the movie has a permanent spot in the CD carousel labeled 1) and away we go, watching Monsters, Inc. for the next hour and a half....well, at least the kiddos do.

I wanted to write about this because this past Saturday night, Aidan spent the night at our house. We didn't have a chance to watch Monsters because we took him to my school's play. When we got home it was approaching bed time and the routine was as usual; however, this time the questioning of whether we could watch Monsters began on the way home from the theater. When we got home there was a diversion of Monsters because Uncle Tad suggested we have icecream before bed. Perfect!

Sunday morning as I was getting dressed, I heard a little soft-spoken-sleepy-voice from the bedroom, "Monin, can we watch Monsters?" Without fail and again, no twist of the arm, I went into the other room, scooped up a sleeply little boy, pushed play on the DVD player and there we were...snuggled on the couch at 6:30 a.m. watching Monsters. I loved every minute of it.