The Muppets!

After a failed attempt at a movie in the theater when Ryan was about 2 1/2, we waited awhile and decided he is now old enough to try again.  Since it was New Year's Day, and we didn't have a lot of other plans, Ryan's Nana and I decided to take him to see The Muppets. I knew he would have no problem sitting still for an entire movie, I just worried that the volume would still be too loud.  And, during the previews, he kept saying "The movie is going to be quieter than this, right??"  I assured him (and hoped!) it would be.  And once the movie started, things went off without a hitch.  He did great through almost the entire movie, until the end, when Kermit is threatened by a "bad guy" and Ryan got very upset, starting to cry, and saying "I want Kermit to win!"  He crawled onto my lap for the rest of the movie, and we got through it.