SP: Elmo LIVE! Face-painting!

This is the live Elmo show. Both girls were kind of quiet at the beginning, just sort of processing how this could be happening.
Soon Georgia began staring with her trademark G glaze-over.

They asked for volunteers to come on stage (G was actually too young to be picked). She only raised her hand after all the volunteers were already safely chosen. She's so much like me, it's frightening.

Later, the mommies decided to hit the gift shop, but left the kiddos with the daddies. They, as you could expect, were very quickly convinced to pay to have the girls' faces painted.

There were several choices, displayed on a board. Daddy explains it this way: "I showed her what she could be. I said, 'There's a panda! There's a turtle! A lion! A bird! A princess...A frog!' And Georgia said, in no uncertain terms, 'A princess.'" End of discussion.



LilyJ went along with it, too.





Later the two celebrated their good fortunes with Big Bird dolls.



Georgia was finally convinced to have her photo taken with Zoe. Notice how she's holding onto daddy?

SP: Parade!

Of course they have a Sesame Place parade everyday! Georgia took her very favorite seat.

LilyJ thought that looked like a good idea, too.





This was one of those moments when Georgia gets really quiet and just takes everything in. You ask her a question and she completely ignores you. About an hour later, though, you get a complete play-by-play, full of questions that you cannot answer ("And what when we were in that place was he doing was?").

SP: Rides Day 1

This park is definitely aimed at the under-6 set. There were many rides (and half the place was a water park), but there were also play areas like this one that Georgia found irresistible.

To me, it seemed a little bit too thunderdome-like. So I let Daddy do the chaperoning.

This was the extra-large moonbounce. G was not into it on day 1.

I was completely shocked that she was so enthusiastic about this ride - it spins, circles and goes up and down. Daddy was the brave one, yet again.

SP: The Characters

There were characters wandering around everywhere we went. LilyJ was an ambassador for our group, racing up to say hello to every single one.
Georgia, on the other hand, preferred to observe the characters from the safety of her double stroller.

Maybe she didn't want Sophie to feel left out?

SP: The Real Sesame Street?

It wasn't the most realistic setup, but the girls loved it anyway.



We got really lucky with a very nice, warm day without rain.







We've heard that Sesame Place in May is very different from Sesame Place in August - we're glad we got our visit in early.

SESAME STREET PLACE

The weekend after the enchanted wedding, we packed into the minivan and traveled back to Pennsylvania for our inaugural visit to Sesame Place, the Sesame Street-themed amusement park. Georgia calls it SESAME STREET PLACE and usually yells while saying it. Sophie was a great sport about trying out the new-to-us orange stroller.



I think that if you asked her, Georgia might say the stroller was her very favorite ride.

Sophie in the Exersaucer

This is a kind of typical moment-in-the-life right now. Sophie being super cute, Georgia demanding something in the background. Good times?