"The family"

I am surprised I have not mentioned this as yet, but I thought i should for memory sake.

Ella from about the age of 9 months or so (I cant remember exactly) has had a fascination with Elmo and sesame street in general but particularly the characters Elmo, Ernie and Bert...it started one day when I bought her a dvd for something different and she remained glued to it, which I hate to say can be handy at times. One of her first words were "boo"...after a scene in the dvd where Ernie says "boo Bert" a few times...
These days she has developed a bit of what we call "the family" of soft sesame street toys which she carries with her almost everywhere, they must come to bed, out shopping, nonnas place, anywhere really. It started off with just Elmo, which we could handle carring all by ourselves, but then, after my mum bought Ernie (aka Bert as Ella knows him) she decided she would take him along too. and then, after telling mum not to buy the real Bert doll ( now called bert 2 ), in weakness to her granddaughter she bought him also and he too joined the family. This lasted quite a few weeks with her taking the three characters everywhere, with her little arms bulging with soft toys, you bearly see an inch of her torso behind them all.
Now, after holding her out for so long, today ( my mum will be pleased ) she has adopted big bird into "the family". This was actually the first one I bought her, not taking much of a liking to him initially he remained in the toy pile until this Tuesday when my mum decided to show his feathery face beneath all the toys. So now, we have 4 plus Ella in the bed.....a sight to be seen ( which is why I snuck a quick pic tonight for all to see. )
bless her little heart...she loves her little family and who am I to argue! Just means mum (me) will have to hold a couple while she ie. has a biscuit to eat or something to that effect, oh well i guess it is my duty to uphold. hehe

Lets just hope there is no more adoptees to this family....or Ella may have to move into another bed!