Close your eyes for a moment and think back to your childhood. Remember the laughter, the songs, the games. Remember the sunny days, chasing the clouds away?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Sesame Street was as big a part of your childhood as it was mine. I loved that show. I can remember waking up in the mornings and leaping out of bed to go watch Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Snuffy. The muppets and other friends in the neighborhood taught me valuable lessons about friendship, ethics and of course my ABC's. Even today at 26 years old, I can't help but laugh when I think about Bert and Ernie and their shenanigans as roommates.
I might be a touch nostalgic, but it seems to me that Congressional Republicans could use a dose of my nostalgia the next time they threaten to cut funding to public broadcasting. For 40 years we've enjoyed and immensely benefited from Elmo's laughter and Oscar's grousing -- why cut off a lifeline that binds us all in such a big world? Sesame Street gives me at 26 a wonderful thing in common with my 3 year old cousin and I wouldn't give that up for the world. Luckily for us, Sesame Street and PBS live to fight another day and William celebrated his third birthday with his muppet friends.
William couldn't help but try to sneak a taste early!
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street? Elmo, Big Bird, Snuffy, Grover, Oscar, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie can!
"Cookie Monster, can I eat your cookie?" So polite for a birthday boy :)
No asking this time!
Elmo and his friends were vanilla and chocolate swirl cupcakes with some yummy vanilla buttercream frosting.
These cupcakes were so much fun to make, but eating them was unexpectedly hard to do! Next time Congress tries to defund Sesame Street, I'm shipping these off to DC. Perhaps we all just need a reminder of childhood.
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