Sesame Street Live & Dad Update

We went to Sesame Street Live on Saturday. We had been talking it up to Luke for a couple of weeks.

I took this picture of Luke on Wednesday before church. Since we've been talking about Elmo so much he thought that Elmo needed to say "Cheese!".

We headed to OKC on Saturday morning to go see the "real" Elmo. Luke was so excited. I was hoping that he would take a nap on the way there, but no such luck. He couldn't think about anything other than seeing Elmo. We got there about an hour before it started and I was glad since we didn't know where we were going.

We just hung out until the show started. The anticipation was definitely mounting for Luke. When the show started he was all smiles! Funny side note to the story - Luke had done so good about pottying that day. He stayed dry traveling, through lunch and through the first part of the show. At intermission I took him to the bathroom and he went. They were selling Elmo balloons at intermission and Luke wanted one. Daniel didn't want to buy one then because he didn't want to wrestle with it through the second half of the show. There weren't many left and I was bound and determined to get Luke one after the show. After the show I made a mad dash for the salesman and paid $8 for this Elmo balloon. We made sure it was nice and secure so it wouldn't fly away on our way to the car. Here is Luke back in the car with the coveted Elmo balloon. We headed to bricktown to walk around for a little while before we had dinner. We ate and headed to the car to come home. Well, Daniel had both the drivers door open and Luke's door. You guessed it. The balloon flew out the drivers door. I was on the passenger side and couldn't catch it in time. We watched the $8 balloon fly away. Luke was already tired, so he was in the back seat almost in tears. I made Daniel stop on our way home so I could go into Dollar Tree and get Luke another balloon. The replacement balloon isn't as cute but it is still a balloon. All in all it was a really great day. Here are some pictures from the show!

Dad Update - Mom, Jennifer and my uncle picked my Dad up at the border around 11 pm last night. They traveled through the night and got to Tulsa around 2:45 this afternoon. They went straight to the hospital and did not receive very good service. They waited for about 5 hours and they still hadn't seen Dad. They went home and are going to try to get into an orthopedic surgeon tomorrow. Please pray that this can happen. He has to have the surgery within 5 days of the broken bone.