We're FAMOUS!

So I go to Clipshack a few minutes ago to find a clip I uploaded, and right on the main page I see that there is an Elmo clip listed under today's "Featured Clips". I think "Wow. Somebody else posted one of their new Elmo TMX just like I did!". I see the title of the clip is "Jack and Elmo" and I think "Wow! Their kid's name is Jack too!" Then I see that the person who posted it is named "Kelly" and I think "WOW!! it was also posted by somebody named Kelly!". I then take a closer look at the still shot of the clip and think "WOW and they also have a family room that looks JUST Like mine!".

See where this is going?

In summation:
1 - My Elmo and Jack video is listed as "a featured clip" on Clipshack.com today! Apparently it's gotten something like 300 views. The people who run the site even put comments next to the clip saying "OK, Elmo can scare even the best of us!!! Great Christmas present if you can find them."
2 - I am not the sharpest pencil in the bunch

http://clipshack.com/Default.aspx


Blowing kisses to his adoring fans ...

A break from the beach...

As you may or may not know little Jack Gifford is the proud owner of the highly coveted and just released "Tickle Me Elmo - TMX" 10th anniversary edition. We gave it to him yesterday evening and as you can see, the boy LOVES it!




I honestly had no idea this toy was even in the works. My brother Michael shot me an email on Tuesday with a link to the press release saying "Here's what you'll be waiting in line for this Christmas!". The article listed the date it would be available in stores. I glanced at my calendar I thought "HEY! That's today! Christmas Schmistas I'm going to check it out right now.". So off to Toys R Us I went just to see what all the hype was about. 20 minutes later I was walking out of Toys R Us with not one but TWO Elmo TMX in hand. One for Jack, and one for the sucker who is going to buy it from me on EBay for $300 now that the stores have all run out:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/15568270.htm

Just call me Santa!

Beach Teaser

So we made a trip down the shore (yeah that's right I said DOWN THE SHORE. Jersey represent!) recently. Wildwood, NJ to be exact. We had a blast and took approximately 2,465,000 or so pictures. Still sorthing throuh all those (and will be for some time) but here is a little teaser to whet your appetite (check it: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/wet.html)

First let me remind you of young Jack's reaction to his first beach/ocean experience last year:


The worm turned so much he could be used as a ceiling fan:


More to come ....

Working for a living

No free milk in the Gifford house! Young JGif has already started doing chores. His to do list is as follows:

Pick up Belle's dinner dish and hand to Mama**
Put lid on trashcan

He does both chores everyday first thing when we come downstairs in the morning. Well second thing really as the first thing he does in the morning is always "chug-down-a-bottle-as-tho-he's-never-eaten-before-in-his-life". Yes that's right - I said bottle. At our last well child visit the doctor told me that I need to start taking the bottle away and putting his milk in a sippy cup. Tried it. Jack took one taste of milk from the sippy, stared at me as though I had laced it with arsenic, then threw said sippy on the floor and began to cry. He then got a bottle. Tried again a few days later. Same result but this time the sippy cup went flying across the room. He then got a bottle. The way I see it our little man simply isn't ready to give up the bottle. And Mama** isn't quite ready to give up her cuddle time she gets while Jack drinks his bottle. It's the only time the kid will sit still and just let me hug him.

Anyway I got Jack on video doing his pick up Belle's dinner dish chore. He really just loves doing it:





**NO the boy still won't say Mama. I have no doubt he is putting off saying it on purpose at this point. I also have no doubt that I am entirely too obsessed with getting him to say it.
Yesterday after his bath he was very cranky and trying to get away from me while I was drying him, putting lotion on him, putting on his jammies, etc. At one point he looks at me, points to the lotion bottle asking me to give it to him and says "Dada!". And I actually said ... to my 15 month old little boy ...

"No. I am Mama. MAMA! And if you don't start saying it soon then I am going to stop doing everything I do for you around here on a daily basis."

Ummm - oops. I swear he gave me the "Seems like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed!" look. I then immediately apologized for getting snippy with him and handed him the lotion bottle.