Mahna Mahna

Over the Holidays Austin shared a hilarious YouTube video of a Sesame Street vignette (randomly called "Mahna Mahna") that just brought us to tears in laughter. We thought it was so cute that we shared it with Poppy and Willow, who both seemed to get a kick out of it, but Poppy certainly more than Willow. We then shared that same video with several friends of ours, including our good friends from church, the Denny's. They also found it to be quite humorous and began to glob onto the song theme much like we did. Some time had passed since we enjoyed that video with the Denny's, but when Valentine's Day rolled around they gave us a singing stuffed "animal" (more like a miniature monster, actually) that sung (Wouldn't you know it?) "Mahna Mahna"! We showed this to the girls and for the first time since we've had both of them we witnessed a role reversal between them; Poppy was enraptured, but Willow was frightened to tears. It's really quite pathetic to see Willow avoid the Mahna Mahna Monster at almost all costs, so we try not to tease her with it (although it's awfully tempting because her expressions are so dang cute when she sees it). So we decided we would use the "monster" to our advantage and put it on a shelf in one of our closets that we've been trying to train Willow to stay out of because it looks like a tornado went through there whenever she comes out. She carefully watched me place it in the closet and..., it's working.

We hope you enjoy Mahna Mahna as much as we do, and certainly a lot more than Willow does.

Mahna Mahna (whatever that means),

Tom (& Victoria)