Toilet, we visit twenty-five times a day.
‘Cause baby loves my bladder in a pressing kind of way.
When baby debuts, I hope my visits are fewer.
Until then, I’ll continue to give to your sewer.
Four weeks left!
Archives for October 2010
It starts Early
My baby has an addiction. An ELMO addiction, and he doesn’t even watch the show! The branding of Elmo is quite ingenious, really. By books alone, my son discovered Elmo and loves him. I fueled the love about a month ago when I decided to find a video on youtube of Elmo & the Elmo song. I think we single-handedly have made the video one of the most popular videos on youtube. Its number of views have risen by over a million since I pulled it up first (probably 500,000 of those are ours.) Though I only show it to him about once per day, every time little one sets his eyes on a computer, I hear “Elmo? Elmo? (Translation: Hey, put that Elmo song on for me!)”
So, my child’s Elmo love affair caused me to do a little Elmo research (because I’m a dork like that). I was really fascinated with the man behind the voice of Elmo and even checked out an interview with him–very interesting! What I found out about Elmo was that he began his life on Sesame Street as a nameless Anything Muppet™, before becoming the famous 3 ½ year-old furry red monster who will always be 3 1/2 (why can’t I have those same ageless genes?). The voice behind Elmo is done by Kevin Clash, who first became Elmo in 1984. You can watch the interview with him here.
Some other interesting facts you may not know about Sesame Street:
All of the Sesame Street Muppets™ have four fingers, except Cookie Monster, who has five (and even more interesting, Cookie Monster, was designed with pointed fangs in 1966 as one of a set of three monsters for a General Foods commercial.)
Oscar the Grouch was the color orange in season 1.
Elmo is the only puppet in history to have testified before Congress.
Big Bird is covered with approximately six thousand dyed North American turkey, coq, ostrich and hackle feathers.
Grover’s first name was Gleep and he was green! It wasn’t until the second season that he became Grover and his fur became blue.
I know this post is random, but sometimes you’ve got to meet people where they’re at…and currently I’m into Elmo because that’s where my little love is.
Framed
I’m trying to play catch-up with my posts from the past couple of months. I’m in the process of backing up my photos and have realized how much I haven’t blogged recently! Hope you don’t mind!
I honestly don’t see how craft blog people can find all the time to craft. But occasionally, I’ll do something crafty. My friend got married this past weekend I made this frame/art for her shower this past summer. The frame was originally covered in leaves and not very pretty. I removed the leaves, modgepodged some fun black and white paper onto the frame, then printed out a pretty letter ‘F’. Total cost was about a dollar for the frame from a thrift store. I was happy with how it turned out. (Don’t worry, I gave her a REAL gift. This was just the FUN part of her gift.)
My Brother’s Wedding
This past couple of months have been a whirlwind. My grandpa’s funeral. My brother’s wedding. A soon to arrive *nameless* baby. Remodeling a house. Feeling like a rhino. It’s been a busy fall.
By my calculations, if this baby comes the same amount of early as my first, I’d be having him THIS SUNDAY. If only I could come up with a name…
While I’m hashing out a name from the name farm, I’ll leave you with a few favorite’s from my ‘little’ brother’s wedding! He married the sweetest girl ever. I’m so happy for them!
A pic of the fam. Notice the stand-in faces of my older brother, sister-in-law, and nephew (hidden from view). They live out of the country and were unable to attend .
The bouquets were simple and lovely!
The cake topper was so unique and so fun! The cake itself was the BEST cake I’ve ever eaten–They had three types: Italian Cream, Carrot Cake, and Chocolate Cake. They were all superb…not that I had two pieces and know, though (oink)…
Here’s my favorite picture of the father of the bride dance. They knew their dance moves! The dad’s face in this picture makes me laugh every time. In all the other pictures his face is normal, but this one brings such a smile to my face that I had to share!
The family we missed…
Mom and me
