Castles made of sand...

These days when I put Tobias to bed we watch Ernie and Bert on YouTube. We do this laying on my bed usually using my iPod Touch or my cell phone. Tobias gets to pick three clips and we will watch them. For the longest time he didn't want to watch anything but "Thirsty" (Ernie is thirsty and Bert gets him glasses of water), "Cookies in Bed" (Ernie eats cookies in bed), "Counting balloons" (Ernie counts sheep, fire-engines and balloons...).

Recently we watch more of a variety including "Sherlock Himlock Here" (Ernie buries Bert) and "Bert's sandcastle" (Bert's sandcastle gets knocked over by Tough Eddie). This picture is inspired by the latter because we went to the beach last week and Tobias wanted to build sandcastles. Not because they are so beautiful, but to know them over....

Tobias and I act out the Ernie and Bert scenes together. It is amazing how quickly he knows them by heart. In this case we were acting out "Bert's sandcastle". Tobias would walk away from the sandcastle, then walk towards it again humming a tune ("Pop-tee-day...Ya-ta-da...." etc.) and then, when walking past it, knock it over, expecting me to act out Ernie's part....

Well, just check it out on YouTube by typing the search term "Bert Ernie Beach". It will be the first or second entry... :-)