When Elmo Grows Up...Sesame Street Live

Here we are...just about to walk out the door to the biggest night of Marianna's life so far....to see Elmo...LIVE!! She was super excited!

Since we got there a bit early, it gave us a lot of time to see the "lions"...Marianna loved looking at these!

Marianna recognizes the Sesame Street logo wherever she goes...

Elmo got hugs and kisses...I think this is what she thought she was there to see at first...she kept going back to him.

Hanging out at our seats after getting suckered in at the souvenir shop....

Almost ready to start..

When all the characters came out...Marianna started screaming "YEAH" and would call out the name of every characters she recognized. (The people in front of us got a kick out of this!) It literally brought tears to my eyes to see her excitement. She clapped and kicked her feet as she sat on my lap and kept screaming "Yeah!"

This is how she sat almost the entire time...She did a great job!

When it was done and the characters were saying goodbye, Marianna kept saying and doing the sign for More...it was hilarious!

What a great night! After we got home, Marianna couldn't wait to play with her "friends" (...I think these Sesame Street figurines are the new princesses). Also, she thinks the program is a book and insisted that we read it before bed!

This morning, Marianna has been easy to spot! The balloon follows her around the house...

The Starving Artist

Marianna wanted nothing to do with breakfast this morning because she wanted to "write" at her new desk. We have spent all morning getting it set up with all her crayons, paper, and stamps. So far we even played here with the playdough and ended up having breakfast on it, too! Thanks, Thea Demi, Uncle Bill, Paul, Diana, and Con for my new desk! I love it!!

Oh No...ELMO!

Marianna got the "Best of Elmo" dvd for christmas and loves it...except for this one clip. The first time we watched it together, everything was fine...then i hear "OH NO! ELMO!!!" Then went into hysterics. I had to rewind it to see what was wrong. It is a demonstration of heavy and light and at the end and Telly dumps some bricks on Elmo. It scares Marianna to death...and she isn't afraid of much! You will notice her closing her eyes right before..but the trainwreck is too bad to look away from...

Everytime she watches this video, it is the same reponse and she goes running...I just had to capture it. I hope it doesn't make me a bad mom...

Various Videos

These are just really short videos...and this is after her doing it already about 20 times! Also, it has gotten IMPOSSIBLE to video her because she is so anxious to watch herself back in the camera...who did she get THAT from??

Play Dough

We have been having a low key weekend...I wanted to put some pictures up of Marianna having fun with Playdough...a great way to kill a half hour around here!


We are all about stacking...blocks, cans, containers...

Snack Break...

Making "Noodles"...(we have this on video too...so funny how much strength she was using to do this...she was shaking!)

Marianna's Big Girl Room

Ever since Marianna started climbing out of her crib, we put the wheels in motion to get her new room ready. After adding the dashes of pink...I think we are almost ready!

We were so lucky to have inherited such beautiful furniture from DJ's great aunt. All we had to get was the bed. Marianna is one lucky girl! She spends a lot of time in here already reading books on the bed and loves playing at the vanity.

Bubble Bath

Marianna came down with a bad cold on Saturday and in order to clear out the sinuses..we though a bath would help. To make it special, we used our tub and the bubble bath Santa brought for Marianna. You can not believe what our tub is capable of in terms of bubble making. Marianna had the time of her life. We were afraid she would get lost by herself so I had to jump in :)

This morning, all she could talk about is "mama and nanna and the bubbles"...