"Is it time to be quiet and courteous?" Elena whispered to me after the announcement to be quiet and courteous.
Then she sat in my lap and cuddled up, sharing popcorn with little M&Ms sprinkled in, just like we like it, and watched from start to finish with only a few questions: "Why he's doing that?" and "Is she a bad girl?" and "Why he's brushing his ears with a toothbrush?"
We'd bought a little stuffed flying pig at the toy store next door, and from time to time, she had to pick it up and show Pig what was happening on the big screen. When the threat of taxidermy came up for poor Paddington, I had to tell her that the bad girl was trying to turn Paddington into a stuffed animal like Flying Pig.
Paddington gets in quite a bit of trouble in the Brown's house, but in the end, even Mr. Brown had to accept their new family member, Paddington. "This family needs that wee bear as much as he needs us."
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