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Oct. 24th, 2003 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
queenrileyAh, my daughter is great. She's smart. I love her to pieces. She cracks me up.
This morning, upon the question of which movie to watch, she immediately said "Football game!" Now I was confussed. She doesn't have a movie about football. She doesn't have a movie about soccer. She doesn't have a movie about any sports at all. I ask again.
"What movie do you want to watch?"
"Football game."
"You don't have a movie about a football game."
She sits and thinks for a few minutes.
"Mummy's movie."
"You want to watch one of my movies?"
"Okay."
"Which one?"
"Football game."
It's then that it clicks. She wants one of my movies about football. Bend it Like Beckham is the only movie I have about football, and it's actually probably the only movie I have about sports at all. The kid wanted to watch Bend it Like Beckham. I pull it down from the rack and show it to her.
"Is this what you want to watch?"
"Okay! Football game! YAY!"
And if you've ever met my daughter, or spoken with me on the phone while she was up and running about, you've probably heard her say YAY and know that my daughter has a set of lungs on her. So I turn on Bend it Like Beckham. She watches intently at first, mostly during the actual game play, and then her attention span wanes. So I skip ahead to more games, and her attention is back. We watched all the games and then turned the movie off and she was happy. Now she's watching Kipper.
She has a soccer ball, not a real one but a little rubber one. It's the ball she plays with most and she has a lot of balls... a big purple one, small bouncy balls, medium sized rubber balls, all kinds of balls. But she loves her soccer ball. And no matter how much her Nana and Papa (Jeff's parents) or her Bamma and Ampa (my parents) tell her it's soccer, she still calls it football. :D
I taught her to kick it. She used to throw it, but I've taught her that you kick footballs and now she spends most of the time kicking it. I'm going to get her a real one for the holidays, and I think once she turns 4 (and is, therefor, old enough) I'll enroll her in a kid's soccer league so she can learn to play. I'm going to get posters for her room when we move... I'm trying to find either Man U or old posters of the women's soccer leagues here, but they're scarce these days, at least where I'm looking. I suppose I ought to go check a sports store, eh?
On a side note: On Bend it Like Beckham, the first song on the soundtrack, the one that plays when you put the DVD on but before you hit play... she knows it. She dances to it. She likes it. I turn it on and she gets up to dance and she sings along with the "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" parts. It's too cute. I hope she still does it when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
perceval gets here so she can see it. :)
Also, got Jeff Matrix Reloaded a few nights ago... watched it last night. Better review coming later, but for now, I liked it. As a stand-alone it was terrible. As a sequel it was mediocre. But as the second part to a three part trilogy, the middle part to a three part story arc, it was wonderful. Though Trinity and Neo are still a little unbelievable... I think it's more on Keanu Reeves' part than it is on Carrie Ann Moss' part. Keanu just needs a little help on the acting emotional sometimes. And the sex scene... that was a little more than I ever wanted to see of either of them and I'm now scarred for life, thank you very much. But overall a pretty good movie.
This morning, upon the question of which movie to watch, she immediately said "Football game!" Now I was confussed. She doesn't have a movie about football. She doesn't have a movie about soccer. She doesn't have a movie about any sports at all. I ask again.
"What movie do you want to watch?"
"Football game."
"You don't have a movie about a football game."
She sits and thinks for a few minutes.
"Mummy's movie."
"You want to watch one of my movies?"
"Okay."
"Which one?"
"Football game."
It's then that it clicks. She wants one of my movies about football. Bend it Like Beckham is the only movie I have about football, and it's actually probably the only movie I have about sports at all. The kid wanted to watch Bend it Like Beckham. I pull it down from the rack and show it to her.
"Is this what you want to watch?"
"Okay! Football game! YAY!"
And if you've ever met my daughter, or spoken with me on the phone while she was up and running about, you've probably heard her say YAY and know that my daughter has a set of lungs on her. So I turn on Bend it Like Beckham. She watches intently at first, mostly during the actual game play, and then her attention span wanes. So I skip ahead to more games, and her attention is back. We watched all the games and then turned the movie off and she was happy. Now she's watching Kipper.
She has a soccer ball, not a real one but a little rubber one. It's the ball she plays with most and she has a lot of balls... a big purple one, small bouncy balls, medium sized rubber balls, all kinds of balls. But she loves her soccer ball. And no matter how much her Nana and Papa (Jeff's parents) or her Bamma and Ampa (my parents) tell her it's soccer, she still calls it football. :D
I taught her to kick it. She used to throw it, but I've taught her that you kick footballs and now she spends most of the time kicking it. I'm going to get her a real one for the holidays, and I think once she turns 4 (and is, therefor, old enough) I'll enroll her in a kid's soccer league so she can learn to play. I'm going to get posters for her room when we move... I'm trying to find either Man U or old posters of the women's soccer leagues here, but they're scarce these days, at least where I'm looking. I suppose I ought to go check a sports store, eh?
On a side note: On Bend it Like Beckham, the first song on the soundtrack, the one that plays when you put the DVD on but before you hit play... she knows it. She dances to it. She likes it. I turn it on and she gets up to dance and she sings along with the "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" parts. It's too cute. I hope she still does it when
perceval gets here so she can see it. :)Also, got Jeff Matrix Reloaded a few nights ago... watched it last night. Better review coming later, but for now, I liked it. As a stand-alone it was terrible. As a sequel it was mediocre. But as the second part to a three part trilogy, the middle part to a three part story arc, it was wonderful. Though Trinity and Neo are still a little unbelievable... I think it's more on Keanu Reeves' part than it is on Carrie Ann Moss' part. Keanu just needs a little help on the acting emotional sometimes. And the sex scene... that was a little more than I ever wanted to see of either of them and I'm now scarred for life, thank you very much. But overall a pretty good movie.
