We started a new family tradition in the Fly household...  Friday movie nights.  I think we may do this every few weeks.  Basically, we put D to sleep at his usual 7:30 time, and the rest of us come downstairs and watch a movie together.  I suppose we could include D, but even tho his attention span is pretty long for a 2.7 year old, asking him to sit there for 1/5-2 hours is pretty ambitious.  And this kind of makes it up to G for having to pay more attention to D during the day.

The inaugural movie was...  The Karate Kid (the old one).  It's a pretty good family movie and it covers a few topics that have come up lately, like bullying.  And now that he's taking tae kwon do, the "use karate for defense" message is pretty important too.  I must've seen that movie like 5 times, but not in the last 10 years or so.  I think I may be becoming a soft old man because there were a few parts in that movie where I started getting all choked up.  And I could still hear a faint echo of "don't cry, okay?" from Mrs. Fly.

I think this opened his eyes to the existence of karate tournaments, as I don't think he would have seen it before.  I just hope I don't get a phone call from the principal that he and his buddies started a tournament in the school playground.  But you never know - kids seem to know a lot more than you think.  During the "wax on wax off" scenes, I said something like "I can't believe Mr. Miyagi is making Daniel wash all those cars!"  And he says, "no - he's training."  Apparently, he saw the concept on an episode of Power Rangers.  So much for the ol' misdirection play - Way to Go!  Stupid Daddy.

He liked it so much, I think I'll get Karate Kid II for next time.  I remember thinking the woman was super cute when I saw it like 20 years ago.  It should be interesting to see how far I've crossed into "dirty old man" territory.   Ewwwww.

WHAT'S FOR DINNER?

Taco night at the Fly house really kicks ass.  There's just something about American processed tacos out of a box that really hits the spot.  I think all Mrs. Fly did was add some onions to the meat.  Well, and put together all the other stuff, LDO.  The chopped thing in the weird-shaped container on top is some spicy salsa that was a little too spicy (even for this Korean).