Green Like Kermit

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Well meaning people were always asking Duke what he wanted Santa to bring him. He started answering Kermit Toys when asked that question. I figured it was like most things he talks about and likes- liable to change violently the next moment to "NO KERMIT TOYS, NO NO!" so we paid little attention. Till we noticed that he kept saying the same thing. He wanted Kermit toys from Santa. Guess when we figured this out? December 23rd at about 5:30 pm.
We were desperate to have something Kermit in his stocking; this year was the foundation for the great fairy tale of Santa. After calling EVERY store in town (Sam's, Toys R Us, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Dollar Tree, Kmart, Spencer's... you get the idea) NO ONE had ANYTHING with the Muppets.  And obviously, being the late evening on the 23rd, there was no way that the internet could help us.
Darrell nixed my idea of following family tradition with an IOU in the stocking.  We settled for the Muppet Christmas Carol DVD (well, it does have Kermit on the cover, and it is my favorite Christmas movie) after much debate.  We were both pretty disappointed that we hadn't been able to make that "dream" come true for him.
Christmas morning we go in to get Duke and we're talking about Santa and we ask him what he wanted.  His response?
"Nemo stuff."