Perspective on fuzzy monsters

If there's one thing I've learned after becoming a Mom, it's perspective. I definitely look at the world in a different way now. Geeklet always comes first, and she's awesome, so I don't mind doing that. :-) I could write much, much more on perspective, but this post is reserved for Elmo.


I have to admit--I'm not quite in the right age group for Elmo. He showed up and I wasn't very impressed. I couldn't believe all of the people going crazy over the "Tickle Me" Elmo (including some of my teenage peers!). Now <mumble, mumble> years later, I get it. Geeklet has a small-ish vocabulary (and learning new words almost every day!), but "Elmo" took no time at all to pick up. As a matter of fact, most fuzzy monsters are called Elmo. I suspect that she'll get an Elmo doll this holiday season. (Oh heavens! I hope Elmo is easier to find this year!) We don't even watch much Sesame Street, but she certainly knows who Elmo is.


So, when this trailer for Being Elmo came across my computer screen, I was very excited. It's a movie about the man who created Elmo. The movie looks awesome, and I hope I get to see it some day. (Let me know if you need a tissue...I have a box right here.)

Here's the website for the movie: http://beingelmo.com/index.html. Looks like it's getting a limited release in October 2011. I'm hoping that it will come to DVD quickly, for those of us nowhere near the cities where the movie will be shown.