Love/hate relationship with Elmo

I have to say that Elmo is the most annoying and most wonderful creation ever. Amelia will sit down for an hour without moving to watch Elmo. At Grandma Jean's home she cried the first time I left her to go exercise. She whined the off an on the whole time. I put on Elmo the next time and she didn't even know I was gone. Elmo is my new babysitter while I take a shower in the morning. At least Elmo is educational and not a big purple dinosaur.