Wiggles

So, big news is that I moved Kasey into her own room last night. The dog were forever waking her up, she seems to be much more sensitive to noise than Courtney was at this age. She also would go to bed before me, so when I came to get ready for bed, she would start stirring then also. So, it seemed like a really logical step to move her into her room.

At first it was tough, I had to go in and rock her about 3 times but she finally crashed for the night about 9pm. She did wake up earlier than normal, she was up at 1:30am, so I was worried she wouldn't make it through the rest of the night, but she did! After I put her back down about 2am, she slept until about 6:45am. So, looks like she is making the transition ok!

Today was a big day for Courtney. My friend received free tickets to the Wiggles show, but she already had tickets. So, she gave the 4 free tickets to me! I got a babysitter to watch Kasey and Courtney and I went with my friend Kate and her daughter Hannah. Hannah is 1 & 1/2 so we weren't too sure how she would do, but she made it most of the way through before losing interest. Courtney is not familiar with the Wiggles, neither am I for that matter, but she loved the singing and dancing. The Wiggles will soon be on her favorite channel on TV, Sprout, but not until August, so at this point she doesn't know them.
These guys obviously aren't young anymore, but they sure can move and keep up! It's live singing, dancing and they do gymnastic type stuff, so there were times when they were breathing hard! And they are pretty funny, making stuff up on the fly and cracking jokes, making each other laugh. They sure did look like they were having fun!

3 of the 4 guys are 40-50 years old! You should see them on stage! Pretty impressive! Two of them came right up to us in the audience, and said hi to Courtney (they were walking the isle to say HI to all the kids). She thought that was pretty cool. And of course Courtney loved Wags the dog... No story or plot like with the Elmo shows or Disney on Ice. This was all singing and dancing. They sang Twinkle Twinkle, and had it all dark with a disco ball going. Courtney kept saying "this is my nightime song". (We sing it every night before bed).
Of course the show was scheduled for right during nap time. So after the show we came home, picked up the baby sitter and Kasey, took the babysitter home, came home, at dinner and then put Courtney to bed. For the first time in a LONG time the kids was asleep within about 15 minutes of me putting her to bed! But she had a fun day!

Here is a blurb about them taken from Wikipedia:

The Wiggles are a children's musical group formed in Sydney, Australia in 1991. Their original members were Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, Jeff Fatt and Phillip Wilcher.^[1] In 2006, Page was forced to retire from the group due to illness and was replaced by understudy Sam Moran.

Field and Fatt were members of the Australian pop band The Cockroaches in the 1980s, and Cook was a member of several bands before meeting Field and Page at Macquarie University, where they were studying to become pre-school teachers. A school project led to the recording of their first album and tour in 1991. As a result of their background, the group combines music and theories of child development in their videos, television programs, and live shows. Since their inception, other regular characters (Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, and Wags the Dog) and a troupe called "The Wiggly dancers" have toured with them and appeared in their CDs, DVDs, and television programs.

The group has franchised their concepts to other countries, developed Wiggles sections in amusement parks in Australia and the US, and won several recording industry awards. The Wiggles have been called "the world's biggest preschool band" and "your child's first rock band".^[2] The group has achieved worldwide success with their children's albums, videos, television series, and concert appearances. The Wiggles were named Business Review Weekly's top-earning Australian entertainers for four years in a row and earned AU$45 million in 2007.^[3] They have earned seventeen gold, twelve platinum, three double-platinum, and ten multi-platinum awards for sales of over 17 million DVDs and four million CDs.^[4] By 2002, The Wiggles had become the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) most successful pre-school television program.