Yesterday, the Crespo family finally made it out to the Orange County History Center to visit the Jim Henson exhibit they've had open since February (this was the last weekend). It was really interesting to see some of his original drawings and story boards for various movies, shows, and even commercials (I had no idea he had created Muppet commercials). Did you know that Oscar the Grouch was drawn in purple but when he first came out he was actually orange instead of green? And did you know that Cookie Monster used to be named Wheel Stealer and had a mouth full of teeth, kind of scary looking and completely not kid friendly) Unfortunately they did not allow pictures of any kind in the Jim Henson exhibit so I was unable to share anything with you guys. They did have an area for the kids to play with puppets, make their own, and really neat touch and feel stuff (walls and HUGE crinkle cookies), needless to say we spent a lot of time there. Crsitana even made an older boyfriend. There was a boy who kept bringing the puppets over for Cristiana to play with and he would give her puppet hugs.
We visited the other floors but spent most of our time chasing Cristiana around since she was running all over the place. She's a quick one!