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05/20/2004 Archived Entry: "scooby-doo"

I took Tabitha to see Scooby-Doo 2: Monster's Unleashed today. She's on a serious Scooby-Doo kick right now. At the bookstore, the only books she wants are Scooby, thank goodness they come in chapter books. BTW, I have to mention that this is the kid who used to only watch two movies , Peter Pan and Robin Hood, and refused to watch anything else for fear of being scared. She has now decided that mothing is scary and she's watching all kinds of things. It's nice to not have to be so careful about what she watches anymore. I used to have to make sure whatever she wanted to watch was as tame as possible. Even a Winnie-the-Pooh movie freaked her out once and it doesn't get much tamer than the 100 Acre Wood friends. I didn't appreciate two crude humor jokes in today's film that were unnecessary, one dealt with flatulance and the child, of course, thought it was pretty hilarious, so I guess she's their target audience. The movie has been out so long that we were the only ones in the theatre, I love when that happens. The movie itself was okay, I thought it was good for what it was. Not spectacular, of course, but I didn't expect it to be. It was entertaining enough and Tabitha loved it.

She and I also went out to dinner together to Red Robin. Our waiter acted like it was his mission in life to get us out of there as quickly as possible. That put a slight damper on dinner, but at least the food was good, as usual. We walked the mall a bit after we ate and found a Barbie dressed like Daphne from Scooby-Doo, so I was a pushover and bought it for the little one. We also browsed all the clearance racks at the Disney Store and Robinson's-May, but nothing struck our fancy. I did find a very retro looking dress for Tabs at JC Penney's, but I'm going to think on it for a couple days. I wasn't in the mood to take her into the dressing room and JC Penney clothes run big and my kid is such odd shaped that I can't not have her try stuff on. Speaking of her size, Tabitha wore a pair of pants the other day when it was a mite cool and I noticed they were short. *sigh* The problem is Tabitha grows taller and doesn't gain any weight so she outgrows the length of pants before she ever grows into the waist. For example, all her jeans are size 5, they are starting to get short but fall off her if she doesnt' wear a belt. In comparison, she still wears some shorts that are 3T, and I don't mean elastic waist shorts, I mean jean shorts. I'm really hoping when I start buying her size 6 in the fall that she'll fit a 6-slim, because if not, she'll be stuck in dresses and tights all winter.