Today I made the startling discovery that my son didn’t know who Mr. Spock was. Appalled that my Dad (or brother or FIL) might discover this calamitous situation before I could rectify it (or I got disowned), I immediately decreed that we were watching Star Trek II today while I worked on my grandparents’ Christmas project.
Georgie immediately objected to this idea as he does all movies that are my suggestion and not his own, but I told him “tough torpedos” and he wouldn’t be watching anything else until he saw this. He growled at me and ran off to go play spies with Trinity before ultimately deciding that it would be better to just get my movie over with. Gee, thanks!
After the little girls went to bed, he sat down to watch the show. Anika
meandered in to see if Star Trek was anything that might potentially maybe be worth watching, and not only stayed for the whole thing but declared afterwards how much she loved it. Ha! At least one of them is properly indoctrinated now.
Georgie asked questions the entire way through the movie and was thoroughly horrified at the little bugs they put in the guys’ ears. He seemed even more appalled when I told him about my grade school teacher who used to wear silver earrings that looked disturbingly like the little bugs. Ick!
Then after clearly enjoying the whole film, he tried to claim that he didn’t like it (he does this following every activity now; it’s getting a bit obnoxious). Trinity spent the whole time on the computer looking up instructions for and making an origami Christmas tree.
At least two of them know who Mr. Spock is now!
Rachel
Written by Rachel Shubin ~ Fiendish friend for effusive fun!
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