Finding Nemo

Watching movies with kids can be a lot of work. This last Saturday we watched Finding Nemo with Ben. I think it's only the second movie he's seen and it's the first one I've seen with him. It was so much fun and I think Ben really enjoyed it, but there is so much that happens in movies and the 2-year old brain doesn't quite comprehend it all.

Every once in a while Mindy or I would laugh or exclaim about something and Ben would look at me and say "What dad?" He was just entranced by the movie, but wanted to know why we reacted the way we did. It was really sweet. Of course he didn't get some of the jokes etc, but he always wanted to know what was going on.

Of course sometimes it's hard to explain what happened in terms a 2-year old will understand. Also sometimes you just don't want to explain all the details, like at the beginning when Nemo's mom is eaten by the shark or whatever. So you get to try to boil the whole thing down into a couple sentences that a 2-year old will understand.

It's so much fun to see him grasp what's happening and ask questions about it. Last night he was watching it again when I got home from work and so I sat down with him for a while and he says, "Where are Nemo's dad and Dory?"

"They're in the whale."

"Where are they going?"

"The whale is helping them find Nemo."

"Oh," he says as if it's not odd at all that a whale has swallowed two fish to help them out...