Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

    The last few days have been scorchers and I have had little motivation to get off the couch. I'm still in the first trimester, so the sickness that has gone with that and the ridiculous heat made me call for a movie day. BUT, we would be watching movies that I wanted to watch. If I couldn't get off the couch I was not going to sit there and watch their regulars... like Barbie movies, Clifford or the Backyardigans. Nope, we watched my favorite musicals. Yes, that's right. Musicals. Gigi, Singin' in the Rain and then today, it was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This last movie has been in the movie library for years, but the girls never got into much of it. I had a hard time convincing the girls that this was the movie of choice.

    Then I noticed that the castle on the DVD was Neuschwanstein. Ha! I showed it to Evelynn, and yes, we had to watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang immediately. She was very excited to watch it then. Both Evelynn and Caelan were drawn into the movie, engrossed in every action. Once Neuschwanstein made an appearance, Evelynn excitedly told Caelan "I went there!". Now, unfortunately, it's been so long since I've seen this movie, that I had not realized how much of Neuschwanstein was utilized for the movie. Even some of the courtyard inside the main gate is used in the movie. My second surprise came a little later when Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) landed Chitty in the village of Vulgaria. It was strangely familiar and Evelynn told me we had been there, too. I didn't question her, but I couldn't tell where this footage had been taken. After a quick search, we have been there. It's Rothenberg ob der Tauber. Evelynn is ecstatic. There is so much footage of Neuschwanstein and Rothenberg in this movie that it has now become Evelynn's favorite movie. Oh, and FYI... Rothenberg is not near Neuschwanstein as portrayed in the movie. It is not the village that belongs with the castle like they would have you think.

Starting at about the 5:00 mark, the footage of Neuwchwanstein and Rothenberg ob der Tauber begins. There are quite a bit more of the area in the movie, but this is a glimpse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UemArxy7soo&feature=related

 

Getting Outer and Outer

It's been a little interesting this go around of pregnancy. I've never had children old enough (or curious enough) to notice, and they have noticed a lot more than I thought. Here are their thoughts on the matter.

Caelan: Do you have a baby in your tummy right now? (Somehow she came to the conclusion that when I'm sick, the baby isn't in my tummy and when I feel better, the baby is there. Evelynn thinks the same. Maybe they had their own conversation about it.)

Evelynn: Is there a baby sack in your tummy? (I was surprised by this one and told her yes, actually, there was a baby sack called a 'uterus'. Now she says it all the time. If she volunteers this information, it's the only technical term she knows and she's still convinced that baby's are in mommy's tummies until the doctor gives the baby to the family. She has yet to ask how the doctor gets the baby, so don't worry if the 'uterus' conversation comes up.)

Caelan: If you're sick you can take medicine... you can take my medicine. (Her medicine being Tylenol. She's so thoughtful.)

Both girls check my tummy at some point every day, asking "Is there really a baby in there?"

Evelynn: You are getting outer and outer. There is a baby in there!

There are daily fights over what I'm having, boy or girl. Evelynn wants a 'brother... because we don't have one of those. All we have are two sisters.' Caelan secretly wants a brother as well, but she has never owned up to that in front of Evelynn. When she hears Evelynn say she wants a brother, Caelan immediately responds by saying she wants a sister. And then the fight breaks out.

Evelynn: "But McKenna is our baby. What will we do with another one?"

McKenna, of course, is oblivious.