1-Shoving a ton of cookies in your mouth at 1 time is comical and helps you make friends (and while it unfortunately will also make you fat, I've learned, in my later years, that Cookie Monster isn't obese because most of the cookies he "eats" fall out of his mouth.)
2-How to count: onetwothree, FOUR, FIVE, sixseveneight, NINE, TEN, eleventweeeeelve.
3-How to count to six in Spanish (besides the words found on the menu of a Mexican restaurant, that is still the only Spanish I know )
4-Bath time IS more fun with rubber duckies
5-Living in a trash can (or dirty place for that matter) will make you grouchy too.
6-How to Dance (though I obviously took lessons from the white girls in the background)
7-And everyone can make a difference:
(Even if you are a man with a deep smoker voice, who hangs around playgrounds, and is never really that helpful. I mean, nothing says super hero like a plastic cup, right? You'd think he'd save people from dehydration or something.)
8-Being adorable can help you make millions of dollars (i.e. the Tickle Me Elmo craze of Christmas 1997) and if you dress up like something adorable, you can still make money in Times Square:
(Mark took the picture for his kids...really, just for the kids)
9-Everything around you has life: lady bugs have picnics, oranges sing, and you never know whether or not the Yip Yip Aliens just used your telephone.
10-And although Sesame Street was based on the row houses in Harlem, it's a little bit cleaner on their set: no rats, no broken bottles, no drug busts, and no crazy people...but oh, how the air is still sweet.
11-Clearly I should have spent less time in front of the T.V. with my friends from Sesame Street and maybe more time out on the streets of my neighborhood with real-life friends (and maybe the most important lesson from this post).
2-How to count: onetwothree, FOUR, FIVE, sixseveneight, NINE, TEN, eleventweeeeelve.
3-How to count to six in Spanish (besides the words found on the menu of a Mexican restaurant, that is still the only Spanish I know )
4-Bath time IS more fun with rubber duckies
5-Living in a trash can (or dirty place for that matter) will make you grouchy too.
6-How to Dance (though I obviously took lessons from the white girls in the background)
7-And everyone can make a difference:
(Even if you are a man with a deep smoker voice, who hangs around playgrounds, and is never really that helpful. I mean, nothing says super hero like a plastic cup, right? You'd think he'd save people from dehydration or something.)
8-Being adorable can help you make millions of dollars (i.e. the Tickle Me Elmo craze of Christmas 1997) and if you dress up like something adorable, you can still make money in Times Square:
(Mark took the picture for his kids...really, just for the kids)9-Everything around you has life: lady bugs have picnics, oranges sing, and you never know whether or not the Yip Yip Aliens just used your telephone.
10-And although Sesame Street was based on the row houses in Harlem, it's a little bit cleaner on their set: no rats, no broken bottles, no drug busts, and no crazy people...but oh, how the air is still sweet.
11-Clearly I should have spent less time in front of the T.V. with my friends from Sesame Street and maybe more time out on the streets of my neighborhood with real-life friends (and maybe the most important lesson from this post).
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4 comments:
oh Kimberly, i love your sesame insights!
I'm not entirely convinced you're not one of those white girls in the background.
i still sing that numbers song!! but do kids today watch sesame street? my kid doesn't. i tried to get him to watch it and he wasn't interested. sad that he'll miss out on these life lessons.
Isn't that the Elmo that Leslie made out with two years ago?
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