KEEGAN VS. MONSTERS VS. ALIENS

Yesterday Matt and I wanted to get out of the house and so we decided to take Keegan to the movie Monsters vs. Aliens. My mom had given us some free movie tickets that she had gotten from rebates that she sent in and the expiration date was yesterday. Matt and I had intended to use the tickets to have a date before baby Myles was born, but that never happened. Can't really remember the last time that we went on a date. I think it was before Keegan was born. Since that obviously didn't happen then I was going to use the tickets to take my mom to a movie when she was here last week. Well time went by too fast and that didn't happen either. Anyways, back to the movie. We needed to use the tickets yesterday or else they would go to waste and I didn't want that to happen. So we thought maybe Keegan would like to see the kid movie. Before we left the house we asked him if he was going to be a good boy at the movie theater. His response "OTAY" We told him that if he was a good boy then we would buy him popcorn. Again "OTAY" so we chose an 11:15 am movie thinking there probably wouldn't be too many other people at that one on a Tuesday, and we were right. Only 1 other guy and little girl. Great!!! So we had to pay 6.50 for a ticket for Keegan. Really!!! He is only 2, and then we had to pay $6.00 for the popcorn. I made Matt stop at the gas station before going so that we could get a soda and candy and sneak them in the diaper bag, grand total $6.10. We got seated and have the popcorn ready to go and for the first 15 minutes of previews Keegan was well behaved eating as much popcorn as he could shovel in. The movie starts and he seems to be doing ok, and then a little while goes by and he seems to be getting a little bored. The movie I must mention was screaming loud and poor little Myles was not too happy about that. So I was trying to hold him and plug his ears. Next thing I know Keegan is off his chair and trying to get past me. I grabbed his arm and sat him back down. Pretty soon this was all that we were doing. He was trying to crawl on the floor past my legs, then he was trying to crawl over the chairs. Threatening to take the popcorn away was not working. He didn't care about the movie and quite frankly neither did I. Next thing we know Keegan has run out of juice. Oh no!!!! "I want Juice daddy, I want Juice" We don't have any more juice, "Scream....more juice daddy"
Finally the only way to quiet him was to put some soda in his cup. We haven't given him soda before, now he kept saying "more daddy, more" Was this movie going to ever end. The answer, Yes, it did finally end and we were all more that willing to leave the theater and decided that taking a 2 year old to the movie, still not a good idea. There is not an alien crazy enough to abduct our little monster. $18.60 later we are on our way home, all a little grumpy. Good news is, the movie tickets didn't expire. Next time we will invest the $18.00 in a babysitter and come home happy.