Kimi_Coconuts
09-14-2002, 10:44 PM
On Monday 9/9 during our week long trip, my family headed for the millionaire show. My husband had it in his head to be in the hot seat again (he was there in May). I told my barely 4 year old daughter (Alissa) to press ABCD as quickly as she could.
I missed the movie question and knew my husband was going to know the answer and be near the top, sure enough he was number 2 on the list, but who was number one? Yep, Alissa, my 4 year old little one dressed up like tinkerbell that day. My mother, who was with us, shrieked at me when she realized it was Alissa's seat number called out.
I was trying not to give into hysterics over her beating my husband (who really knew the answer and lost by 3 seconds to her), but I also had to take her up there to the 'hot seat'. Later she confessed to me that "That seat wasn't really hot Mommy", LOL.
So, had I known I was going to coach her I would have sent my husband up there, but as it was it was a whole lot of fun being on the set with my daughter giving her tiny 'final answer' to the hostess who thought Alissa (aka Tinkerbell) was just the cutest thing ever to be seen there at DCA. She said she'd never had anyone that young make it up there. The entire cast fell in love with her and they allowed us to take her picture in the hot seat later that day (no longer in the Tinkerbell costume but with her millionaire hat and lanyard on). She made it to the 16,000 question when her mother blew it on a stupid evergreen question, oh well. Let me tell you I beat myself up all night long over that stupid question and a few of the others she (we) used the lifelines on.
All in all Tinkerbell was most thrilled by having tradeable pins and now has 5 new princess pins to her name and someday will hear the stories of her day in the hot seat (that wasn't really hot) and they day she upstaged her father.
I missed the movie question and knew my husband was going to know the answer and be near the top, sure enough he was number 2 on the list, but who was number one? Yep, Alissa, my 4 year old little one dressed up like tinkerbell that day. My mother, who was with us, shrieked at me when she realized it was Alissa's seat number called out.
I was trying not to give into hysterics over her beating my husband (who really knew the answer and lost by 3 seconds to her), but I also had to take her up there to the 'hot seat'. Later she confessed to me that "That seat wasn't really hot Mommy", LOL.
So, had I known I was going to coach her I would have sent my husband up there, but as it was it was a whole lot of fun being on the set with my daughter giving her tiny 'final answer' to the hostess who thought Alissa (aka Tinkerbell) was just the cutest thing ever to be seen there at DCA. She said she'd never had anyone that young make it up there. The entire cast fell in love with her and they allowed us to take her picture in the hot seat later that day (no longer in the Tinkerbell costume but with her millionaire hat and lanyard on). She made it to the 16,000 question when her mother blew it on a stupid evergreen question, oh well. Let me tell you I beat myself up all night long over that stupid question and a few of the others she (we) used the lifelines on.
All in all Tinkerbell was most thrilled by having tradeable pins and now has 5 new princess pins to her name and someday will hear the stories of her day in the hot seat (that wasn't really hot) and they day she upstaged her father.