It Better Tell Me The Weather

Ok, so my mom asked me a few weeks back what to get Asher. He's little, he's got plenty, but the only thing I could really think that he needs and would be excited about would be a chair. He and Tristan constantly battle over a Mickey Mouse chair that someone gave Tristan when he was little, so I thought he would be thrilled to have a chair of his own.

My mom, knowing that Asher loves the Wiggles (aka "Wee Wees"), set out on a quest to find a Wiggles seat. What she found is that the Wiggles are no longer the "it" thing. You can't find Wiggles stuff anywhere. It's almost as if they never existed, a far cry from the days when Tristan was this age. You can find the DVDs but no toys or other merchandise.

Unable to find anything Wiggles, she looked for Mickey Mouse. Again, she hit a dead end. No Mickey either. She was able to find an Elmo chair. She didn't get it the first time she saw it because she was so busy looking for the other characters. I, in trying to prepare Asher for a new character, showed him an Elmo DVD. He responded well and now knows who Elmo is, so my mom made a trip back to Wal-Mart to retrieve the prized (and only remaining) Elmo chair. When she put it on the conveyor belt, it giggled. Lo and behold, she had an Elmo Giggle and Shake chair.

What's the big deal? An Elmo Giggle and Shake chair is probably just a little added bonus, right? I would think so. Thing is, when I went on Amazon.com to see what the chair looked like (I had seen it a couple of days prior but hadn't realized which one it was exactly), I saw that people are asking up to $250 for this chair!!! Seriously. I checked on this chair a couple of days ago, and it was going for $39.99 (exactly what it sales for at Wal-Mart). Well...Toys R Us is sold out and so is Wal-Mart, so people are hawking them for WAAAAAAAAAAY more. Is that CRAZY or what?! I mean, I get that people want their kids to have a cool chair, but $200?! Seriously???

I could never pay that much for an Elmo chair that normally sells for approximately $200 less. Just couldn't do it. But yea for Asher. He's not getting as much as Tristan because I keep telling my mom and mil that he's little and doesn't need anything and doesn't know the difference (my mom disagrees). Well, now it appears that he's getting the hot ticket item, a sought after Elmo Giggle and Shake chair. I'm sure the magnitude of this will impact him greatly.

For those out there who will pay $100 or more for this chair, I hope yours tells you the weather or something. Surely it will have to do something other than giggle.