The Elmo Show

Last night was the big night...Elmo show! The Sesame Street Live Elmo show comes to our area every December and yesterday marked our second annual trip to see Elmo. And cookie monster, Big Bird, Telly, Grover, Zoe, Oscar, Oscar's girlfried (I want to say her name is Willamina, but it's something "trashier" than that), Ernie, Bert, Abby Cadaby, Betty Lou (or Sue Ellen, or whatever her name is), and several more...can't remember them all.

As with everything "special" that we do with the kids, we hyped it up big time. I couldn't find the Elmo stuffed animal (the regular sized one...we have the giant one, the Elmo chair, tickle-me Elmo, and countless other Elmo plastic toys and figurines), so we brought the Cookie Monster one and presto, Blythe was the biggest Cookie Monster fan alive.

Of course, I had thought earlier in the day that I'd pick them up from school a bit early so we could get dinner done early and get everything ready to go at a nice leisurely pace and be out the door by 6 o'clock. But Murphy's Law kicked in and I got 37 work calls between 5 and 5:15, so didn't leave the house to pick up the kids til 5:20. I'm not sure if that's really Murphy's Law, but it sounds good so we'll go with it. So anyway, that left for some major hustling when we got home and some really quick eating. We were rushing Blythe so she got upset a few times and we threatened to leave her home while we went to the Elmo show. Like that would actually happen, but she doesn't know that so it works. We left the house at 6:07. Not too bad.

I was hoping Ethan would sleep on the way there, and he did. He fell asleep 3 minutes before we got there. Great. That's worse than not sleeping at all. I was actually really worried about how Ethan would do, but he did quite well. He almost fell asleep at the end of the show, but got his 4th wind and made it to the end.

The beginning of the show was the best part. Seeing the faces on both of the kids as all of those furry creatures came out on stage. They were both so excited, so it was all worth it. The show drags on a bit long though. It started at 7pm and as soon as it hit 8pm, you could hear the whole arena reach a higher level of crankiness.

See you next year, Elmo!