Now it’s obvious by now that I love Twilight but is it as obvious that I absolutely adore Harry Potter?  Well, I do and I try to share my obsession with my kids.  My 7 year old has been watching Harry Potter since the first movie came out.  I would watch it with him before he even learned how to sit down and watch a movie.  He’s grown up with it and same with my 5 and 4 year olds.  The first two movies that is.  I made the mistake of taking the older one to see the third one in the theater.  Not pretty.

I’ve also been reading the books to them.  We got about halfway through the third when they started to revolt and wanted to read something different.  I’m sorry to say, that made me mad.  How dare they not want to know what happens to Harry and Sirius Black!  Shame on them.  So we’ve been in a Harry Potter hiatus for a while now.  I’m letting them get a little bit older so hopefully they can appreciate it more.

Then you wont believe what happened.  My baby.  My 4 year old little angel brought me the case for HP and the Sorcerer’s Stone.  He picked it out of all the videos and brought it to me to watch.  My heart swelled inside me.  I can honestly say that I loved him a little bit more at that moment.

He watched the movie and the next day he brought me HP and the Chamber of Secrets to watch.  He was actually enjoying the movies!  The day after that he wanted to watch the one with the dragon.  I told him that was number one when Hagrid gets a dragon egg.  He watched it and complained because he wanted to see the one with the big dragon.  What a great memory!!  He’s only seen that in commercials but he still remembers it!  Oh, I am so proud.  Just busting at the seams.

With all this great progress I decided it was time to try HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban again.  This is the one I took my oldest to when he was really young.  So I turn the movie on and wait for the kids to come running scared into my room.  The oldest one did.  He didn’t like the movie at all and in fact he has had nightmares about it.  So major bummer there.  I had no intention of scaring him so bad.  But the other two.  The other two loved it.  In fact the little one is watching it right now as I type.  The 5 year old asks to watch it every chance he gets so I got 2 out of 3.  That’s not so bad.  In fact, it’s pretty darn good.

Now I wont let them watch the latest movies because they are PG-13 but I don’t mind reading them the books if they ever want to get back into them.  And they better.  It’s just so fun to have something I love be something they are interested in too.  Do you guys have a book like that?  That you  want so badly to share with your kids that you’re probably pushing it on them a little too hard?