sesame street live

I boringly, yet responsibly, put my entire bonus this year into savings. One day shortly after my deposit, Annabelle, B and I needed new shoes. Woah, big splurge. Gwyneth didn't need new shoes, but I felt bad she didn't really benefit from my bonus this year (besides a sense of financial stability...oh wait, she probably doesn't really care about that being 1 1/2 and all....).  I received an email offer that same day for Sesame Street Live and given Gwyneth's current love of all things Elmo, I decided to hook her up with some tickets to the show.   Hook her up I did! We were in the 3rd row on the end and the girls were in heaven. They were very into the show and since we were so close the characters walked right up to them and waved, shook hands, and high fived. Gwyneth enjoyed them when she saw them coming. When they crept up behind her, she would hang on to her daddy and her little eyes were as big as saucers. We tried to warn her they were coming to avoid any shrieks or Sesame Street trauma. Annabelle recognized lots of familiar faces including her favorites Ernie, Abby, and Cookie Monster. She also saw another friendly face in the crowd as we ran into a friend from school, Zoie. Small little suburban world we live in....

Gwyneth needed a hand from her daddy holding down the seat. Not quite heavy enough yet. That 2 lbs makes a difference because Annabelle did just fine.

One of Annabelle's new favorite

Both girls still like Big Bird, but Gwyneth is devoted to Elmo

Oh what lucky girls! Their daddy got them popcorn. I know, I know - you're not supposed to give kids popcorn until they are 3 or something, but we're Paz's. We start inhaling this stuff at birth!

Delicious popcorn goodness - hand it over, sister!

Mesmorized by the show. We see lots of live kiddie shows and this had to be the best so far. They had African dancers, underwater fish adventures, glow in the dark butterflies and caterpillars....

The girls wanted to climb right up on stage. Look out, Broadway....

After a very family friendly day, the girls spent the evening with their grandparents. I was worried they would be disappointed because Reagan wasn't there since they talked about seeing her the entire drive over, but a few pieces of chocolate from Grandpa and they were feeling right at home. It's nice to see the progession of honesty from Grandpa Meyer. He doesn't even wait until we're out the door before pulling out the sweets jar. I don't think it would kill him to hide it from us a little more! What can we say though? He's Grandpa and the girls love him.

We joined Susan and Burton for dinner at Darcy's, which is a great little Irish Pub in the Tech Center. We met there often before we had kids, but it had been years and it was a great blast from the past. We were able to spend about 2 1/2 hours catching up and the girls had a great night with their Grandparents. We're looking forward to getting together with the Stevens' crew up in Breck sometime this summer for some hiking and attempting the Alpine Slide.