NO- Mater

Tonight we attempted to watch the first ever movie with Jude and Petra. For over a year, Jude has absolutely loved his "Cars" book, a small paperback that tells the McQueen and Mater story in a few pages.  We even gave him toy 'Mater" and McQueen" cars for Christmas to his total delight. But he became upset during some intense scenes of the movie and really upset when a large scary tractor chased McQueen and Mater.  We turned it off and comforted ...we will wait another few months before trying to watch it again.  For some reason it disturbed him for his favorite little characters to be doing stuff in a movie.  Something similar happened at Christmas.  Uncle Jon gave him a big fire truck with a personality but for some reason that day we could not get it to turn on.  Jude even took it to bed Christmas night.  When I activated the toy the next day he seemed to be excited then said 'I don't like it!" and would not play with it.
Fortunately, after bedtime routine, everyone was back to singing again.  Jude was singing the "potty song" after we tucked him in and Petra was singing a "walking with the wise" song.  One of my absolute favorite things  about the past 12 months has been seeing them develop the habit of singing themselves to sleep. I love to walk by their door and hear them talking or singing to themselves. Precious!