...sweepin the clouds away!
On Saturday, January 2nd, I took Maddy and Parker to see Sesame Street Live! We were so excited that they finally came to Knoxville. Over the last several years we have had to travel to Chattanooga or Johnson City to see the Sesame Street Live shows. Maddy's first word besides mama and dada was Elmo, and her love for Sesame Street grew again when Parker became interested in it and fell in love with Elmo. Maddy is such a great big sister to Parker and I thought they would enjoy the show the most. Here is Maddy showing Parker the big Elmo sign:
The show was called, "Elmo's Green Thumb" and all of the Sesame Street friends joined together on an adventure to help ELMO find a new home for his sunflower friend, "Sunny."
Parker was mesmerized when the show first started:
Then he wanted to stand up to see better and clap a little bit:
Parker wanted some "po-pern" (popcorn) so we snuck out during the first half to get some. He insisted that Maddy share with him!
At the end they shot out streamers and confetti and the three of us jumped a mile!
What a great show and it enabled me to teach them a good lesson on sowing seeds, taking care of God's creation, having patience and letting God grow plants in His own time. Of course, the best part was spending time with Maddy and Parker!
Then he (Jesus) told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop--a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. He who has ears, let him hear." Matthew 13:3-9
