the ever elusive Elmo

How I spent day 2 of spring break:

Going from store to store searching the young boys' departments for Elmo underwear, size 2t or 3t. Keita wrote me from Germany to tell me that Trevor, her 2 1/2 year old, will only wear underpants if they've got Elmo on them. Pull-ups have Elmo, so why wouldn't underwear? But noooooooo. Prowling those young boys' departments, feeling like some kind of perv because everybody there somehow knows I don't have a little boy, I came up empty. Sorry, little boy. They've got Spiderman, Bob the Builder, Scooby, but no Elmo.