Adventures with Bert and Ernie

Allie with Bert and Ernie, and of course, sunglasses.... this is the embarrassed

pose. We mentioned their names, and she wilted with this huge smile! :)

We made Bert and Ernie a slide/ramp with the cushions from the couch...

she had a blast playing with them like this! :)

Easter bunny ears pose... :)

Allie, Daddy and the Ever faithful Bert and Ernie by her side. :)

She knows that there are pictures of Ernie's nose and part of his face as well as

parts of Bert in some of these pictures. She can point them out to us. She also

points out pictures of rubber duckies and says, "Ernie- duck!" She loves to read these books!

Can you spot the hidden Bert and Ernie in this picture. They're watching her! :)

Close up of them... hiding or watching her. :) This is all the closer she'd let them get

when we first brought them home to her. ;)

Before the stuffed characters entered out house, she often carried around the plastic Ernie with a ducky float around his middle and sunglasses on. She had him everywhere... Here he is helping her cook... :)

Allie has this obsession with the Characters Bert and Ernie. I suppose you could say they are her best friends right now. She loves them to pieces.... but also gets extremely embarrassed around them. We got her these two stuffed toys about a month or so ago. We first realized that she had this crush on these two about six months ago or so. We would read books and they'd be in, and she'd get all squirmy on the pages with Bert or Ernie. She would sit and look at the books and just study those pages on her own. When we asked her what she was looking at, she'd quick close the book and hide her face. When she sees them on S. Street, she just about crawls out of the room with embarrassment. Pretty hilarious! :) She definitely likes them- and is not scared of them.

When we were at a bookstore a few months ago, I showed her the stuffed Bert. She seriously about crawled out of her stroller trying to hide from him!

When we first brought home the Bert and Ernie, she wouldn't go near them for a while. Just wanted to look at them. Every time we would bring them close for her to play with, she would bury her face and kind of whine. So we put them up on a shelf for her to look at. She wouldn't go near that corner of the room, but always pointed from a distance and smiled and commented about them. Finally, we started bring them around with us to different places in the house. Daddy took them upstairs once and used them as a gate near the steps. Worked well until she got brave and picked Bert up and threw him down the stairs... :) From then on, she's loved them to pieces. She carries them EVERYWHERE! She loves to swing with them, and just carry them around. I've caught her trying to give them drinks from her sippy, and feed them her fruit snacks. BUT.... when I praise her for feeding and taking care of them, she gets all embarrassed and hides her face, or throws them far from her- almost to say "I wasn't feeding them, or giving them a drink..." :) Silly girl!

She loves everything to do about them, and notices their features. She can pick them out anywhere- even if it is only part of their face, or an outline of them. She loves to look at them in books, watch for them on S. Street, and show us anytime she sees them. She'll sometimes bring us things and just kind of giggle- and usually it has a Bert or Ernie picture on it. :)

She also LOVES to pray for these two... ha! I love this girl! When we pray at meal times or before bed or nap, she always has to tell us things she wants to pray for (I love this about her!) She usually always says Bert, Ernie, Swing and Play. Sometimes there are other things that get mixed in the request line up, but she will persist and say Bert (and Ernie) (Bert is her fav. though) until we repeat it and thank God for him too. ;) Soooo funny! :)

So, that's the story... she's got her first crush! :)