Tonight we hosted our second movie night in our countdown to our Disney trip. When we picked our initial 15 movies, we wanted to include movies that some (or all) of us hadn't seen, so Cubby picked Up. He, Husband, and Lady A haven't seen it and I've only seen it once, so it was a perfect choice.
We started the evening with a walk around the neighborhood being Wilderness Explorers and doing a nature scavenger hunt. I used one that I got from the blog Live Love Speech. She's one of my favorite SLP (speech-language pathology) bloggers and I had just used the scavenger hunt at work. (There was an Up-themed one from Disney family, but it wouldn't print out correctly ☹️)
Since I didn't remember the whole plot all that well, I struggled with the food a bit. I remembered there were dogs, so hot dogs seemed obvious and I don't think you can have hot dogs without fries and/or baked beans! So we had Dug's Dogs and Fredrickson Fries. Full disclosure: I had to look up the character's names so we had a tie in! Grape soda was a must, since Ellie gives Carl the grape soda badge. Seriously, is there a greater, truer love story than Carl and Ellie anywhere in the Disney panetheon?
After watching, I saw the potential for a million other ideas- popcorn with chocolate (for Kevin- Snipe Snacks!), a replica of whatever Epsilon makes for dinner on the Spirit of Adventure- and I definitely should have had some balloons in the house. I also found a cute idea for an Adventure Book from Disney. It's more for the summertime; I think I'll print it for when school is out.
Dessert was the fun part! One of the best parts of these movie nights is how I can get Cubby involved in helping out. For now, we prep while the little miss is napping, but one day she'll be able to help, too! Anyway, I had an idea to make blue Jell-O like the sky, and then ended up finding Cloud Parfaits. Ours didn't quite look like those, but we had fun making them!
I came across these Balloon Bouquet Pops from Disney Style. I mean, if you're already loading up with All. The. Sugar, why not go all the way?? So we rolled with it. We had a Christmas Ornament cookie cutter which was the perfect shape (as per the video recipe), but in all honesty, the easiest way for us to do it was to spray our hands with cooking spray and just make ball shapes with our hands! Once we got them on the wax paper, Cubby made sure they were a bit flattened out. We waited about an hour before sticking in the skewers. 6 cups of cereal made about 12 pops, with some left over. I thought maybe using a mini-muffin tin would create a good shape, so I experimented with the left overs. It definitely made them more ball shaped, but it's not a big enough ball for the skewer. Those were perfect for Lady A's small fingers (plus giving a skewer to a 20 month old is probably not the best parenting move, right?!).
This movie was a hit with 3 out of 4 Lyons! Lady A was not impressed, except for when the balloons unfurled out of the chimney for lift off. Cubby tells me this is his new favorite movie and is quite happy that we will have it out of the library for a couple of weeks. I was a sobbing mess in the first 15 minutes and I definitely saw Husband's eyes get misty.
Next week we make our first foray into the traditional animation with.... The Little Mermaid!!
15 weeks to go!
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