...and rounding out the week is Yo Gabba Gabba!

We Kicked off last week to the Jimmy Buffett concert with free food and amazing seats!

Margarita and Cheeseburger in honor of Jimmy

And we ended the week with Yo Gabba Gabba Live tickets we purchased way back in June. I'd wanted to purchase the VIP PArty package, which gets you front 15 row seating and get a meet and greet with the characters afterwards, but even just 15 minutes into ticket sales, the best I could do was 3rd level seating at the Hobby Center! It was still a great view. Anna asked if we'd be able to touch the characters and I told her that they sold all the tickets to get to do that so we couldn't buy any. Afterwards, she'd tell people, "We can't touch them because mommy doesn't have any money!" HA. The looks we get on that one: Did we hear that right?!

What a show! Seriously, it was actually FUN. Wayyyyy better than Story Time Live we did in August. The music and the colors and the characters were really visually something else for this show and actually I'd pay to go see it again. Balloons dropping from the ceiling, bubbles, confetti...What a fun evening!

We learned awhile ago that Anna's enthusiasm for things like these that are happening are similar to mine: Awe, study, and seriousness. She's not the type to get up and dance and hop around and act silly at events like this. Instead, she stares with focus. We got her one of the fallen balloons and into the second half of the show she started waving her balloon a little to the music. She'd catch me staring and smile a little and keep watching.

At the very end of the show, I saw the tears start to well up as the show was over and she asked why it was "so short" - 1.5 hrs (she had an out and out cry fest after Story Time Live, and verge-of-tear-fest after Drum Line being OVER). We nipped it in the bud before the wells turned to streams and she was just fine and happy, talking all about the show as we made our way to the T-shirts. She's such a big girl, and it was such a trip! She was so chatty and happy and it was really a great time!!

That night, at bedtime:
"momma, why don't their mouths move when they talk?!"
Me: "Good question. Um...well, because they're puppets, baby."
Anna: "Puppets?"
Me: "Yes, they're pretend puppets and they can talk without moving their mouths."
Anna: "Oh"

Next day, pointing to the TV, "Mamma, I really like THAT puppet!"