Last weekend for your brother’s soccer game, as we watched from the field, you discovered a toy crown that apparently someone had left behind.
Your response was pretty much immediate. You started trying on the crown, inspired from our nightly bed time stories about Anna and Elsa.
You never access to such a realistic looking crown before. So as simple as it was, you had a lot of fun putting it own, as I happen to take several pictures of you having fun with it.
Sometimes it’s those completely unplanned pictures than actually turn out to be the best!
Tonight was the exciting debut performance of Disney of Ice Frozen here in Nashville and our family loved being a part of it!
We were able to snag backstage passes for the special opening celebration in which our family was able to meet Elsa and Anna. You can imagine how surprised my kids were.
My son is in 2nd grade and my daughter is 2 years old. I’m sure every minute of it was a dream come true; like bringing Frozen to life!
Though I had been to Disney on Ice exactly 30 years ago when the feature was The Sword in the Stone, my wife had never experienced it.
The show is very well done. I highly recommend taking your family, as the tour will be continuing through May 2019. So check to see when Disney on Ice Frozen is coming to your town.
And if you’re Nashville, there are still 8 more shows through Sunday, September 16th, 2018!
From September 13th to September 16th, families in driving distance of Nashville will have 9 different opportunities to see Disney On Ice Frozen.
As for my own family, we will be at the very first show that Thursday night.
With a 2 year-old daughter and a 2nd grader son, I know we are going to have a great time!
And for congratulations to Karen Stanley, who was the first person to leave a comment about Disney on Ice Frozen on the Facebook page for Family Friendly Daddy Blog. She won 4 complimentary tickets for her family to join us there.
Granted, I’ve only seen it twice so far, but I am confident that I will never be able to keep dry eyes for any future viewings of it. Still, I can legitimately proclaim that I cry every time I watch Inside Out.
Just to be clear, if you were sitting next to me while watching Inside Out, you wouldn’t know I was crying.
You wouldn’t hear anything about of me.
But if you simply turned to me to look me in the eyes, you would see tears running down both sides of my face.
Yes, it’s suppressed crying, but it’s still crying.
Sunday night after the movie ended, my wife, my son, and I all looked at each other’s wet cheeks, then laughed at the fact we all just saw proof of each other crying.
It’s not that Inside Out is a sad movie, because I don’t believe that it is.
Instead, with it being a movie about emotional intelligence, Inside Out undeniably reveals the love that involved parents have for their children.
The movie provides an enlightening experience as it reminds us that the emotion of sadness is necessary and vital; especially as it strengthens family relationships.
I might just have to proclaim that Inside Out is officially my favorite Disney movie, ever. It appears the general public agrees, as the movie has earned an impressive 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
It’s one of the few Disney movies to not adhere to the stereotype that the protagonist’s parents are dead. Instead, her parents are alive and well, and are actually good people.
Compare them to Elsa and Anna’s parents, in Frozen, who instead of confronting the issue that one of their daughters had a special power that makes her different, they basically locked up both of their daughters and kept them from interacting with each other. And if that psychological drama wasn’t enough, then the parents had to die, like almost every other Disney protagonist’s parents.
Of course, there is a very legitimate theory that Riley, the protagonist of Inside Out, is adopted.
But whether she is or is not adopted, that doesn’t change the fact that the movie does a wonderful job of expressing from the inside out what it’s like to be a parent and a kid who is part of a loving family.
And again, it’s also a fact that I’ll cry every time I watch this movie.
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