Vacation, part 2

ME SEE ELMO? ME SEE ELMO? ELMO!! ME WANT TO SEE ELMO ONE MORE TIME, PLEASE!!...

That's pretty much what we heard the entire way home. We saw Elmo's Green Thumb on opening night and use it to our advantage all day long. "You have to eat everything on your plate" or "We are in a store, use your quiet voice" etc.... Was it unfair, yes but it was very effective.

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Here's the scoop on the show, Elmo has a sunflower plant named "Sunny" and he's raised it from a seed. Sunny has now out grown his flower pot and needs a new home. Big Bird suggests planting Sunny in his garden and goes off to get his shovel. Meanwhile, Abby Cadabby the fairy in training tells Elmo she can do a spell to help Sunny grow big. Abby bust the wrong rhyme out and ends up shrinking everyone in the middle of Big Bird's garden. Now Elmo and his crew search out a new home for Sunny singing "New Point of View" set to Patti LaBelle's "New Attitude". Along the way they meet beetles, butterflies, a gaint talking bee and join in at the labybug pinic while Abby tries to figure out how to reverse the spell. Then all of a sudden Abby remembers her wand is also a cell phone and sets out to call her mother for help but sadly she couldn't get any bars. James was also sad about the arena not having a bar either. Eventually Abby figures out the correct rhyme just as Elmo finds the perfect spot for Sunny. She waves the wand and everyone is big again. They dig the hole which causes them to sing and dance some more. It's now the end of the show and we manage to leave the building without buying a $10 balloon of Elmo's head with no one crying.

It wasn't as lame as I thought it would have been and Bailey really enjoyed the show. We were close enough to the stage that a few of the performers in costume would eventually come out to the crowd and meet the kids. Bailey shook hands with Gover and was in toddler heaven the rest of the night. Elmo never ventured into the crowd fearing a dog pile attack from 50 or so toddler age kids. I can see us doing this again for Bailey if Elmo Live ever comes to Kansas City, it's well worth the money for childern entertainment.