H0tel f0r d0gs (spoiler alert!)

Tonight Mom and I took all 3 kids to the movie theater for the first time. They did great!
Eldana loved it, of course.
The little girls were amazingly good. They didn't get restless until about the last 15-20 minutes, and even then it was only irritating me, not obnoxious enough for the other patrons to be disturbed.
Mom wanted to see Despereaux but it's last day was yesterday at our theater. The kids were so psyched to see a movie that we blindly went to see H0tel f0r D0gs.
Surprise! The kids in the movie are in foster care and have no parents!
Surprise! At one point they are split up and are very sad!
Surprise! At the end they are adopted!
Some adoptive parents really super-screen movies first so that their kids don't see movies that involve themes of loss, grief, etc. I don't do that, but do wish I would have known that this was part of the story. We'll see what questions Eldana has about it tonight. So far, her main topic of conversation after the movie was that when she is grown up she will stop the police from killing dogs. In case you are wondering, when she grows up she will also teach people not to hit their children, be a teacher, be a policewoman, be a singer, be an occupational therapist, be a respiratory therapist, be a mom, not have kids, be a wife, not get married, live with us forever, buy the house in front of our house and buy a great big house so we can move in with her. Oh the possibilities!

**update ** No more questions about the movie. In the past she hasn't been too bothered by orphan/adoption themed movies, but I always wonder if it will spark something.

Putting Eliana asleep last night, I lie down beside her in our bed and she snuggles her face up against mine. I say, "I love you, sweet girl" and she says "I yuv you Mama." I say "I'm so glad." She pauses and says "No, I'm so glad!" We joke back and forth, arguing "No, I'M so glad" several times each. I try to seriously say to her "Honey, I don't think you even know what glad means, it means that I'm so happy that you love your mama." She puts her lookhowsweetIamface on and snuggles up against me for a minute.. Then she pulls back and smiles, saying "No, I'M so happy!"
Holy moly. Does it get any sweeter than that?