The other night, when we were watching my friends little girls and her niece, I decided that I needed some activities and maybe a couple of new movies to keep the girls entertained. Avery definitely likes many Disney movies but she prefers ones without a scary character in it. This seems to be a difficult task sometimes because think about it, virtually every cartoon has a bad guy... a scary bad guy. There's the Little Mermaid which has Ursula... scary. There's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with the evil queen... scary. And let's not forget Sleeping Beauty with mean dark fairy, Maleficent.... scary. See my problem?
Thank goodness for the fairytales that are sweet, even if they do have some mean characters, you know the ones I am talking about... Cinderella, Cars and Beauty and the Beast. I was on the hunt to find a couple more of these types of cartoons because I really wanted an evening where the girls could just relax and calm down a bit in front of a movie once all the playing had subsided. I made the decision to buy Pinocchio and 101 Dalmations.
I can't even tell you how much these two new movies are loved in this household. Avery loves any show with animals so the fact that she gets to watch cartoon dogs for a full 80 minutes is her own personal version of heaven! And Pinocchio! Who doesn't love that movie?! Avery is now Pinocchio's biggest fan and so happy he's had his wish fulfilled of becoming a real, live boy. Now if she could only say his name correctly... but I'm not rushing her on it because it's so cute. How does she pronounce his name? I'm glad you asked because it really is the cutest pronunciation ever!!!! Pinocchi-yoki. For some reason she's having a hard time getting that last "o" on the end of his name and adds a couple more syllables to it instead. And now I'm having a hard time not saying Pinnochi-yoki.
So cute it hurts!