Barney Live!

Jay's mom is the queen of winning things. Especially the radio call-ins. Seriously, I cannot even begin to tell you how many times she has won things. Just since Holden has been born she won us Wiggles tickets, dinosaur show tickets, and this month....she won Barney Live tickets! As in, Barney the big purple dinosaur. (As I type this I have the theme song in my head.) Holden is not as obsessed with Barney as some of the other shows he likes, but he really enjoys him and loves music of any kind. Barney sings a lot the common kids' songs like "The Wheels on the Bus," "The Itsy Bitsy Spider," etc. that Holden knows. Memaw also invited our cousins, Morgan, Emma, and Kyle. Great Aunt Teresa came to help with Kyle, who is her grandson.

As you can see, my van was filled to capacity. It's a good thing Memaw is skinny! She was wedged in the back between Holden and Emma. Made me laugh.

Memaw and Teresa swinging Kyle. Isn't he looking like such a big boy?! Praise God for how far he has come from the sick little baby a little over a year ago.

Holden, Morgan, and Emma walking to the show. Three peas in a pod.

Waiting for the show to begin! (We got there early; while the place certainly didn't fill to capacity, there were people behind us eventually!) It's a good thing we got there ahead of time, too, because we had to take potty breaks and order food. I am very thankful that I do not have triplets. Enough said!

The kids enjoying the show.

We got to see Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, and Riff (he is the orange one and is newer; we didn't know who he was until we asked.)

Teresa bought the kids light wands. They were in heaven. The light wands took precedence over the show for awhile!

Our buddy, Kyle. He was all over the place but did really well and liked dancing to the music and playing with his light wand. He actually joined Holden and me for quite awhile because we had popcorn. ;) I love the picture of Holden and Morgan trying to contain him. Crack me up! He thought he was hot stuff sitting in the chair and letting it fold him up, then open again. He was trying to impress the cute little girl that you can see holding the Barney doll. He was tickling her and dancing for her. When he wasn't trying to steal Barney.

Emma danced so hard her braid was straight up in the air.

Whoa, that's a serious dance face! Holden was showing off his mad white-boy dance skills and shaking his light wand. He gets this from Daddy.

Play that funky music, white boy...

Play that funky music, white!

We had a great night despite a few umm....interesting experiences. Morgan was happy until close to intermission, when she started saying she wanted to go home, and proceeded to vomit all over the floor and the seat in front of her, which, thankfully at the time, was empty. I have learned how quickly the staff at the Colliseum respond to a clean up call. :) Her mom came and picked both girls up and we moved up several rows and prayed we wouldn't all come down with whatever she had. Turns out it was strep,which can make you get sick. Poor girl!

I think my van still smells like Lysol.

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