Sock It To Me

When Kent likes a movie he becomes obsessed with it (not unlike other 4 year olds). We had our run with The Bee Movie, The Incredibles and Monsters INC. Lately he has been all about Cars, as you may have noticed from some of my other posts. This week Pete tried to mix it up with Toy Story. We have seen Toy Story A LOT this week. I noticed right away that Woody calls Buzz Lightyear a moron and stupid quite frequently. I now really feel like a mom complaining about the negative influences of kid movies. Thankfully, Kent has not started repeating those words...yet. He has picked up a few things from the movie, though. Apparently, someone in the movie must say "oh nuts" when they are disappointed, because Kent has been saying "Oh Nut!" (yes, just nut, not nuts) whenever something doesn't go right. That's pretty funny. The other not so much... Yesterday, while on the potty, Kent was talking really rude to me. I walked into the bathroom and said the usual, you will not talk to mommy like that, it is rude and naughty, etc. He then looked right at me and without any emotion he said, "hit me in the face mommy, come on, do it. Do It!"

I was completely shocked! It was funny to hear him say that and it took me so off guard; I just tried not to laugh, because that would really send the wrong message. So I gathered myself and went into the whole we do not hit other people, especially in the face; we don't want to hurt people and make them sad, do we? speech. I could not figure out where he got this from. Today, while watching Toy Story, I was pretty shocked to see a fight scene between Woody and Buzz Lightyear where they keep punching eachother in the face (under a car at a Dinoco gas station by the way). I have seen the movie probably 100 times, but I felt like I was seeing it for the first time! A fight scene! REALLY!?!?! Then Kent looks up at me and asks if he can hit Cohen in the face because Cohen hits him in the face all the time....

Needless to say, we will be switching movies again!