We made it through the parking lot and into the house to find our seats. Things were going as good as they could. Whew. After sitting for about 5 minutes Calder says to me, "we have to get out of here". If he can just hang in there until the music starts he'll get interested. It's a very visual opera.
After we are about 5 minutes in he says again, loud enough for a few of the people sitting around us to hear,"we gotta get out of here". I whisper to him let's wait 5 minutes until we see Kitty (the main character ). He says don't do that. Don't tell me a secret. Ok scene change, come and capture my borderline restless 5 year olds attention.
Going great. He is recognizing the characters we have shown him for two weeks now. He sits on my lap, which is sweet...another 10 minutes go by. I notice that he is really paying attention. Cool. Relief. After 38 minutes from the moment the orchestra started he turns to me again saying "we gotta get outta here". I say "are you sure you don't want to see just 5 more minutes...see the savage in his cage?" He says "absolutely". Well there it was. The kindest, whispered words...I had to respect that. I had told myself before that I would not force this on him. So after 38 minutes of opera we went home.
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YAY for successses...I wouldn't even call that one a small success. 38 minutes is a pretty great attention span for ANY 5 year old at the opera. Good on ya!
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