gatorcast from paul smith

Last night I totally pulled a “gag” on the boys. We went to Moe’s for dinner and the place was packed wth young kids, much younger than mine. We overheard a family talk about how they were about to go to the Elmo Live show at the O-Dome after dinner.

I quikly said to the boys “hurry up, we have somewhere to go”. They asked where and I said it was a surprise. I then said, “we are going to see Elmo Live at the O’Dome”. The look on their faces was priceless. I kept a straight face and said, “yea, I even got front row seats”. Man it was fun. It went on for 30 minutes. They didn’t want anything to do with Elmo.

So Evan says,”Dad, I am cold, I have a sore throat, I have sooo much homework to do…” priceless. “I don’t want to go see Elmo, please…”. Cameron had this look of “I can’t believe my dad would do this” on his face.

Even after driving to wrong way (back to the house) they were still convinced. They wanted to see tickets. When we neared our neigbhorhood they realized it and said “Dad, whats up with the Elmo Gag!”. It was a great moment to share with my boys.

You know your kids are getting older when Elmo just doesn’t do it for them anymore.

I did take Cameron years ago to the O’Dome for the Sesame Street Live (which I think did feature Elmo).

It was great to remind Cam of this.